A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

made, the Governor shall issue commissions to the
different persons elected, including the Lieutenant
Governor, as provided in the fourteenth section of
the fourth Article of the Constitution of this
State.

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32. The said certificates for all officers provided
for by the Constitution, except in the case of
Governor and State's Attorneys, shall be directed
to the Governor; for the Governor they shall be
addressed to the Speaker of the House of Delegats,
and enclosed to the Secretary of State; for State's
Attorneys they shall be addressed to the Judge
of the court having criminal jurisdiction in the
county or city.

Certificates
of election — to
whom return-
ed.

52. All contested elections for Comptroller of
the Treasury, Commissioner of the Land Office,
Judges, Clerks of the Courts of law and Register
of Wills, shall be decided by the House of Dele-
gates, and the testimony shall be taken in such
cases in the same manner as is herein prescribed
in contested seats of the Senate or House of Dele-
gates.

Contested
election.

CHAPTER 144.

AN ACT to enable any bank, savings institutior
or savings bank of this State, to become an as-
sociation for the purposes of banking under the
laws of the United States,

Passed March
24, 1865.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That any bank, savings institu-
tion or savings bank incorporated under the laws
of this State, may become an association for the
purpose of banking under the laws of the United

May become
a National
Bank.

States; provided, it shall first comply with all the
requirements of the act of the first session of the
thirty-eighth Congress of the United States, enti-
tled, "An act to provide a national currency, se-

Proviso.