FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall continue
in force for fifty years from the date of its passage, and that
the General Assembly of Maryland may at any time repeal

chap. 284,

Rights reser-
ved.

the same.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this act or no part there-
of, shall be so construed as to give to said society any bank-
ing privileges or the right to issue any bank note or notes or
certificates of deposit, payable to bearer, or small note for
circulation of any kind whatever.

Banking for
bid.

CHAPTER 264.

An act concerning the Survey of the Coast of Maryland.

Passed March
9. 1842.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for any person
or persons employed under and by virtue of an act of the
Congress of the United States, passed the tenth of Februa-
ry in the year eighteen hundred and seven, and of the sup-
plement thereto, at any time hereafter to enter upon lands
within this State for the purpose of exploring, surveying,
triangulating or levelling or doing any other matter or thing
which may be necessary to affect the objects of said act, and
to erect any works, stations, buildings or appendages re-
quisite for that purpose, doing no unnecessary injury to pri-

Right to sur-
vey granted.

vate or other property.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That in case the person or
persons employed under the act of congress aforesaid, can-
not agree with the owners or possessors of the land so en-
tered upon and used as to the amount of damage done there-
to by reason of the removal of fences, cutting of trees or
injury to the crop or crops growing on the same, it shall and
may be lawful for the said parties or cither of them to ap-
ply to the chief justice for the time being or one of the asso-
ciate judges of the judicial district in which such land may
be situated, who shall thereupon appoint three disinterested
and judicious freeholders, residents of the same judicial dis-
trict, to proceed with as much despatch as possible to the
examination of the matter in question, and the faithful as-
sessment of the damages sustained by the owners or posses-
sors aforesaid, and the said freeholders or a majority of
them, having first taken and subscribed an oath or affirma-
tion before the chief or associate justice aforesaid or other
person duly authorized to administer the same, that they
will well and truly examine and assess as aforesaid, and hav-

Chief Justice
may appoint
persons to as-
sess damages.