FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841,

by which the capital stock of said bank has been reduced,
shall hereafter be recovered, the president and directors of
said bank shall have power, either to add the same to the ca-
pital stock and shares of the stockholders, or cause dividends
thereof to be made among the stockholders entitled to the
same.

chap. 46.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the tax of twenty
cents in each hundred dollars of the capital actually paid
in, which is now required to be annually paid into the trea-
sury of the State, be and the same is hereby required to be
paid only on the stock so reduced, and that which may be
hereafter paid in or added to the capital by the recovery of
the lost funds, in case the same be recovered and applied in
that manner.

Tax of 28

cents in the
100 dollars—
on what slock
to be paid.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the
act entitled, an act to establish a bank and incorporate a
company, under the name of the Frederick County Bank, as
are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the
same are hereby repealed.

Inconsistent
acts repealed

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That whenever this act shall
be accepted by a majority of a general meeting of the stock-
holders of said bank, called and assembled pursuant to the
nineteenth section of the act to which this is a supplement,
the same and every section and provision thereof, shall be
held and considered as a part of the charter of said bank.

To be ac-
cepted by ma-
jority of the
stockholders.

CHAPTER 46.

An act regulating Writs of Error, and granting Appeals
to the Court of Appeals.

Passed Jan.
31, 1842.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That on any appeal being entered in any county
court, or in the chancery court, or county court as a court
of equity, from any judgment, order or decree therein, or
upon the production of a writ of error upon any judgment
in any county court, or other inferior court, it shall be the
and duty of the clerk or register of such court, to make out
transmit to the court of appeals of the western or eastern shore,
as the case may be, to which such appeal may be made, or
writ of error made returnable, a full transcript or record
of the whole proceedings of the said court in such action,
or other proceedings, under the hand of the clerk or regis-
ter and the seal of the court, or great seal of the State, as
the case may be, within nine months after the appeal therein

Clerk, etc. to
transmit re-
cord, etc. to
court of app-
eals.