JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

1834

and extended to the first daj of January eighteen hundred
and thirty five, and to the end of the General Assembly next
thereafter, AND WHEREAS, notwithstanding the said cor
poration has attempted to wind up its concerns and to close
its Banking operations, there are still due and unpaid cer-
tain debts claimed by the said corporation, and there still
remain unsettled and undecided, certain suits instituted in the
name of the corporation, or for the use of the same, or of
those claiming under the same, for the proper adjustment of
which further tune will he required, Therefore —

CHAP 289

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the act entitled an act to establish a Bank and
incorporate a company under the name of the Elkton Bank
of Maryland, to which this is a further supplement, and the
several supplements thereto, and the charter thereby created
shall continue and be in force until the first day of Decem-

ber eighteen hundred and forty, and until the end of the next
session of the General Assembly thereafter, Provided, that
this act shall cease to have any effect should the said corpo-
ration or Bank proceed to transact any other business than
such as may be necessary to close and wind up the concerns
of the same

Proviso

CHAPTER 289

A supplement to an act to authorise the appointment of jus
tices of the peace in the City of Baltimore with limited
jurisdiction, passed at December session eighteen hundred
and twenty five, chapter one hundred and eighty nine

Passed Mar. 20, 1835

Be it enacted by the Geneial Assembly of Maryland, That
so much of the act to which this is a supplement as limits
the number of justices thereby authorised to be appointed,
to four, be and the same is hereby lepealed, and that the go-
vernor by and with the advice and consent of the council,
be authorised to appoint such number of justices of the de
scription and with the powers mentioned in the said act, as
in their opinion shall be useful and necessary for the public
convenience and welfare, Provided always, that the justices
so appointed, shall not be authorised to take acknowledge
ments of deeds