A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

the books in person or by power of attorney, but
no stockholder indebted to the company shall be
permitted to transfer his or their stock or to re-
ceive any dividend until such debt is paid or
secured to the satisfaction of the President and
Board of Directors.

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Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That nothing here-
in contained shall be so construed as to confer
banking privileges in said company to issue any
note, token, scrip, device or other evidence of debt
to be used as currency.

Banking pri-
vileges prohi-
bited.

Sec. 13. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the dato of the passage, continue
and be in force until the year eighteen hundred
and eighty-five, and until the end of the session of
the General Assembly next thereafter.

To take effect.

CHAPTER 83.

AN ACT to incorporate the Corn and Flour Ex-
change of the City of Baltimore.

Pasted March
23, 1865.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That William Chestnut, Thomas
Whitridge, Joseph O. Ford, Francis White,
Robert Tyson, George Small, James A. Hooper,
B. F. Phillips, Luther J. Cox, Jr., P. H. Maogill,
Samuel Duer, J. B. Clark, M. Roberts, John G.
Heives and C. W. Slagle, their associates and suc-
cessors, be and they are hereby created a corpora-
tion and body politic, in the city of Baltimore, by
the name and style of the Corn and Flour Ex-
change of the City of Baltimore; their object and
intention being to establish a depot or mart for the
sale or purchase of grain, flour, provisions and
produce, generally, where all persons who are sub-
scribers or stockholders as hereinafter mentioned,
desiring, can sell or purchase the same, and also,
to have, a reading room attached, where there shall
be constantly kept a regular list of the price cur-

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Incorporated
— powers and
privileges.