WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1840.

CHAPTER 53.

A supplement to an act to extend the charters of the several
Banks in the City of Baltimore, passed at December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, chapter two hun-
dred and seventy-four.

CHAP. 54.

Passed Feb. 8,
1841.

WHEREAS, by the sixth section of the act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, to which this act is a supplement,
the several Banks therein named, were required to transmit
to the Governor and Council, to be filed in the executive de-
partment, a copy of a resolution therein mentioned, certi-
tied under the common seal of the corporations mentioned
in said original act; and whereas, such resolutions so filed
have been mislaid, and it is fit that the evidence of the exist-
ence of the corporate franchises of those institutions should
be definitively ascertained and settled — Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful lor the several
banks referred to in the act to which this is a supplement,
at anytime before the first day of August next, to transmit
to the Governor, to be filed in the executive department, a
copy of the resolution in said original act mentioned, certifi-
ed as required by said act.

To transmit re-
solution to Go-
vernor before
1st Aug. next

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the filing of said resolu-
tion, by the first day of August next, shall be as effectual as
if the same had been filed within the time required by said

original act.

CHAPTER 54.

Valid if filed.

An act for the benefit of Anne S. Hieliman.

Passed Feb. 9,
1841.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Anne S. Hieliman of Washington county, be and she
is hereby authorised and empowered to record in the office
of the clerk of Washington county, the name of a certain
negro slave Dolly, ad that the recording of the said negro
slave shall have as full force and effect in law, as if the
same had been done within the time required by the act of
Assembly, passed December session, eighteen hundred
and thirty-nine, chapter fifteen; provided, the name of the
said slave shall be recorded within thirty days after the
passage of this act; and provided also, that all the other

Name of negro
to be recorded.

Proviso.