WILLIAM GRA30N, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1840.

CHAPTER 92.

An act to reduce and establish a uniform system of charge,
by Notaries Public on all protested Notes, Drafts, Bill,
of Exchange, and so forth.

CHAP. 93.

Passed Feb. 23,
1841.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act, it
shall not be lawful lor any notary public within this State to
have, charge or receive any greater fee for protesting, any
promissory note, draft or bill of exchange for non-accep-
tance or non-payment, or check for non-payment, than the
sum of one dollar and seventy-five cents; which sum shall
be in lieu of what is now charged for presentation, protest
seal, notices and recording.

Charge limited
to $1. 75

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any notary public shall
receive or charge at any higher rale than that allowed by
this act, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars
for each and every offence, to be recovered before a jus-
tice of the peace for the use of the State.

CHAPTER 93.

In case of vio-
lation, &c.

A supplement to an act, passed at December session, eigh-
teen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled an act in aid of the
building of an Academy in Frostburg, and a Market House
and Town Hall over it, in Cumberland, Allegany
County.

Passed Feb. 23,
1841.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That when the commissioners named in the act
to which this is a supplement, shall have raised the sum of
money proposed in said act, and in the manner therein provi-
ded, they shall pay over the one-half thereof, to William
Ridgely, Joseph Dilly, George S. Green, Masheck Frost,
John Powell, George McCulloh and Elisha Coombs, who,

Commissioners
to pay over one
half of money
raised, &c.

or a majority of them, shall hare power to purchase land
in or adjacent to the town of Frostburg, for the purpose
stated in the act to which this is a supplement; and said per-
sons above named shall be visitors of said school, and they
and their successors appointed in the manner and form provi-
ded for in the third section of the act of seventeen hundred
and ninety-eight, chapter fifty-eight, entitled an act to in-
corporate a school in Allegany county, by the name of the

To purchase
lands.

To be visitors.