1841.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 219.

CHAPTER 219.

Passed March
5, 1842.

An act entitled, an act to repeal an act entitled, an act to
authorize the Banks of the State of Maryland, to receive
and pay out the Orders drawn by the Baltimore and Ohio
Rail Road Company, on the Stock of the City of Balti-
more, and for other purposes.

Repealed

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the act entitled, an act to authorize the
Banks of the State of Maryland. to receive and pay out the
orders drawn by the Baltimore and Ohio rail road company
on the stock of the city of Baltimore, passed at December
session eighteen hundred and forty, chapter twenty-five, be
and the same is hereby repealed.

Subject to
fine and im-
prisonment.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any director or direc-
tors, officer or officers of said Baltimore and Ohio rail road
company, shall authorize or direct the making, using or
paying out of any such orders after the passage of this
act, other than those already issued by said company, of a
denomination less than live dollars, or of any denomination,
with a view to give said orders a circulation as a currency,
and said orders shall be actually issued or paid out, such of-
ficer or officers, director or directors shall be subject to in-
dictment in the county court of the county or district where
such authority or direction shall have been given or attempt-
ed to be given, or where said orders shall have been made,
issued or paid out, and upon conviction, said officer or offi-
cers, director or directors shall be subject to a fine of not
less than one thousand dollars, or an imprisonment in the
jail of the county or district where said indictment was
found of not less than twelve months, at the discretion of

Provisoes.

the court before whom the trial shall be had; provided, that
nothing in this bill shall be construed to prevent the renewal
by the proper authorities, of the certificates of the Balti-
more and Ohio rail road company, when called upon for
such renewal by the holders thereof; and provided, further,
that whenever such renewal of said orders shall take place,
the commissioner accepting such stock order or orders of
said company, shall be bound to destroy, in the presence of
the State directors, the original order or orders so renewed,
and upon conviction of not having destroyed said orders,
he shall be liable to prosecution under the penalties of this
section.

Subject to
indictment.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That if any officer or agent
of said company shall issue or pay out, or attempt to issue
or pay out any such order, he shall be subject to indictment
in the county court of the county or district where such of-