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paid to said clerk by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall make com-
pensation to said stenographer for all testimony taken and
transcribed by him at any coroner's inquest or inquests, and
when requested by the State's Attorney for the use of his
office, at a rate not exceeding fifteen cents per hundred words
of such testimony.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 429.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-section
Sixth of Section 23 of Article 11 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Banks and Trust Companies, " sub-title
"Banks, " as said sub-section was amended by Chapter 33 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1918.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sub-section Sixth of Section 23 of Article 11 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Banks and Trust Com-
panies, " sub-title "Banks, " as said sub-section was amended by
Chapter 33 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
of 1918, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, so as to read as follows:

23. Sub-section Sixth. To exercise, by its directors, duly
authorized officers or agents, all such powers as shall be usual
in carrying on the business of banking; by buying, discounting
and negotiating promissory notes, bonds, drafts, bills of ex-
change, foreign and domestic, and other evidences of debt; by
receiving deposits of money upon which interest may be paid;
by buying and selling coin and bullion; by buying and selling
exchange, foreign and domestic; by accepting for payment at
a future date, drafts or bills of exchange drawn upon it, hav-
ing* not more than six months to run, which grow out of trans-
actions involving the importation or exportation of goods, or
which grow out of transactions involving the domestic ship-
ment of goods, provided shipping documents conveying or se-
curing title are attached at the time of acceptance, or which
are secured at the time of acceptance, by a warehouse receipt
or other such documents conveying or securing title covering
readily marketable staples: by accepting drafts or bills of ex-
change drawn upon it having not more than three months' sight
to ram, by banks or bankers in foreign countries or dependen-