1842

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 123.

publish for five weeks in some newspaper in Frederick, a
list of balances and unclaimed dividends of more than
three years standing upon the books of the institution.

Three years
allowed to set-
tle up affairs.

SEC. 3. And be it snarled, That if at any time hereafter
the legislature shall see fit to exercise the right reserved by
the second section of the act to which this is a supplement,
and shall annul the charter of the Frederick Town Savings
Institution, or shall pass an act to alter or change said char-
ter and the act so to alter or change the same, shall not be
accepted by the said institution, that then and in either of
the said cases, the said institution shall have at least three
years from the time of the passage of such act annulling or
altering its charter to collect all debts due it and settle up
its affairs, and during such three years shall have and pos-
sess all the corporate powers and privileges necessary for

Proviso.

such purpose; provided, that this ant shall not preclude the
court of chancery or the county court, as a court of equity,
from authority to appoint trustees to settle and wind up said
institution in case of repeal of its charter.

Have effect
from passage.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall have ef-
fect from the passage thereof.

CHAPTER 123.

Passed Feb.
20, 1843.

An act to regulate the manner of public advertisements in
Somerset and Charles Counties.

Repealed as
relates to So-
merset and
Charles.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act, the
several acts of assembly requiring executors, administra-
tors, trustees, sheriffs, ex-sheriffs, coroners and constables,
to give public notice through the medium of the newspa-
pers, be and the same are hereby repealed, so far as the
same relates to Somerset and Charles counties.

Discretionary
power in giv-
ing notice.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all executors, adminis-
trators, trustees, sheriffs, ex-sheriffs, coroners and consta-
bles in said counties, may and shall after the passage of
this act, exercise a discretionary power in giving notices
either by inserting the same in the public print or by put-
ting them at the court house door and other public places
in said counties, in the manner now provided by law, in
counties where no newspaper is published.

Repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all laws incompatible
with the provisions of this act, so far as the same relates to
Somerset and Charles counties, be, and the same are hereby
repealed.