ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1807.

notice in one or more of the news-papers printed in the cities of Baltimore and Annapolis, and Fre-
derick-town, on the western shore, and in the paper printed at Easton, on the eastern shore, and
any number of stockholders not less than forty, who together shall be proprietors of one thousand
shares, may at any time apply to the. president and directors to call a general meeting of the stock-
holders for any purpose relative to the affairs of the institution; and if the president and directors
shall refuse to call such meeting, the said number of stockholders, proprietors of not less than the
aforesaid number of shares, shall have power to call a general meeting of the stockholders, giving
at least two weeks notice in one or more of the news-papers printed in the cities of Baltimore and
Annapolis, and Frederick-town, on the western shore, and in the paper printed at Easton, on the
eastern shore, specifying in such notice the object or objects of such meeting.

CHAP.
LXVIII.

XVI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case it should happen for any cause whatsoever that the
annual election for directors should not take place in any year on the day herein for that purpose
mentioned, the said corporation shall not, for that reason, be dissolved, but such election may there-
after be lawfully held on such convenient day as may for that purpose be fixed on by the president
and. directors, they causing ten days public notice thereof to be given in one or more of the news-
papers printed in the cities of Baltimore and Annapolis, and Frederick-town, on the western shore,
and in the paper printed at Easton, on the eastern shore.

Corporation
not to be dis-
solved, &c.

XVII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall continue and be in force until the first day of
February, eighteen hundred and twenty, and until the end of the next session of assembly which
shall happen thereafter.

CHAP. LXIX.

Duration.

An ACT to provide for the transcribing of certain land records in
Charles county, and for making out an alphabet to the same.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that some of the land records of Charles
county are in a ruinous situation, and duly liable to destruction, and that there is no gene-
ral alphabet to the said records; therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Charles county
be and they are hereby authorised and required to cause to be transcribed, by the clerk of the said
county, in good leather bound books, to which fair and regular alphabets shall be prefixed, such re-
cords as they, or a majority of them, may deem necessary and proper to be transcribed.

Records to be
transcribed,
&c.

III. AND RE IT ENACTED, That the said levy court are hereby authorised and empowered to
cause the said clerk to make out a general alphabet to all the land records in the said office.

An alphabet to
be made.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said clerk shall receive tire same fees, for his said services as
he is by law entitled to receive for services of a similar nature.

Clerk's fees.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of Charles county shall levy, on the assessable
property of said county, such sum of money as the fees for transcribing said records, and making
out a general alphabet as aforesaid, may amount to, to be collected and paid over by the collector of
said county, to the clerk aforesaid.

CHAP. LXX.

Money to be
levied, &c.

A Further supplement to an act, entitled, An act to incorporate an
insurance company in Baltimore-town,

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the Bal-
timore insurance company, in addition to the objects contemplated by the original act of incor-
poration thereof tor the investment of its funds, to invest the same, or any past thereof, in shares
of any chartered bank in the United States, in shares of any of the road stock in the state of Ma-
ryland, or any other stocks or funds already created, or that may hereafter be created, as to the
president and directors of the said company shall appear the most secure and likely to be the most
beneficial to the institution, any thing in the original act, or supplements thereto, to the contrary
notwithstanding.

Company may
invest their
funds, &c.