PRIVATE ACTS. 1327

ginia, to maintain a bridge across the Potomac River, at or
near the town of Williamsport, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Washington and Berkeley Bridge Company, a
body corporate under the laws of the State of West Virginia,
shall have full authority, right and privilege to maintain a
bridge across the Potomac River, at or near the town of Wil-
liamsport, Maryland, and to use the same as a public way, and
to gather and collect tolls therefrom.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1910.

CHAPTER 136.

AN ACT to .amend, the Charter of "The Sharpsburg Savings

Bank of Washington County, Maryland."

Whereas, "The Sharpsburg Savings Bank of Washington
County, Maryland," was duly incorporated under the General
Incorporation Act of the State of Maryland as a Savings Bank
on the 13th day of December, 1907, and has been since that date
doing a savings bank business as well as a general banking
business.

Whereas, There is doubt whether under the powers given by
said General Incorporation Act a Savings Bank may do a gen-
eral banking business, which doubt it is intended by this Act to
remove and to give said corporation the right to do a general
banking business, if it does not already have said power, now,
therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That in addition to the powers conferred upon it by Arti-
cle 23 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, and
the amendments thereto, "The Sharpsburg Savings Bank of
Washington County, Maryland," is empowered to do a general
banking business, and as such, to buy, discount and negotiate
promissory notes, bonds, drafts, bills of exchange, foreign and
domestic, and other evidences of debt; to receive deposits or
money, upon which interest may be paid, to buy and sell ex-
change, foreign and domestic, and to issue letters of credit and
to lend money on personal or real security. Provided, how-
ever that said corporation shall be subject to the provisions of
Article 11 of the Public General Laws of this State, title.
"Banks," and any amendments thereof, and the liability of the
stockholders thereof shall at all times be determined by the