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Passed Feb. 20,
1841.
Upon petition
courts to order
inspection, &c.
And direct such
notes to be be
stroyed.
Report required
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An act to provide for the destruction of the Notes of In-
solvent Banks, in certain cases.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the courts of this State, upon the petition of any party
holding or being possessed in trust of the notes payable on
demand or to bearer, of any insolvent banking corporation,
may direct an inspection and audit of such bank notes, and
after a particular count and statement thereof, made under
order of, and filed in court, shall direct such bank notes to
be burned and destroyed by the sheriff of the county, in the
presence of the petitioners or their counsel, and a report
of such burning and destruction shall be made to the court
giving such order.
CHAPTER 86.
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Repeal of part
of act of 1837,
ch. 361.
Which excepts.
To charge 8 cts.
per ton per mile
Except flour.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That so much of an act, entitled an act relating
to charges for transportation upon the Baltimore and Ohio
Rail Road, passed March the thirteenth, eighteen hundred
and thirty-seven, chapter two hundred and sixty-one, as ex-
cepts the articles of flour, grain, corn, oats, tobacco, whis-
key, ore, iron and lumber, from the maximum of the charge
per ton per mile authorised by the said act, be and hereby
is repealed; and that on the articles of flour, grain, corn,
oats, tobacco, whiskey, ore, iron and lumber, transported by
them, the said Baltimore and Ohio Hail Road Company
shall have power to charge not. exceeding eight cents per
ton of two thousand pounds, per mile, except the article of
flour, ten barrels of which shall be taken for a ton, and no
charge to be made for weighing; and that the charge upon
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