1838.

CHAP. 143

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 142.

Passed Mar. 7,
1839.

An act for the benefit of Joseph Walker, Collector of
Tax for the fourth Collection District, in Baltimore
County.

Authority to col-
lect.

SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for Joseph
Walker, collector of tax, for the fourth collection dis-
trict of said county, to proceed in the collection of ar-
rearages of tax, in as full and ample a manner as he
could or might have had at any former period, for two
years from the passage of this act.

Accounts on oath.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted. That the aforesaid Jo-
seph Walker, shall in every instance before he may pro-
ceed to the aforesaid collection, make affidavit before
some justice of the peace, of said county, that the same
remains unpaid, and hath not received any security or
satisfaction for the same, or or part thereof, more than
what credits may be allowed thereon.

CHAPTER 145.

Passed Mar. 5,
1839.

An act to incorporate the Western Mechanics' Savings
Institution of Baltimore.

Persons incorporat-

ed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland. That Joseph Newman, James Dixon, David
Carson, Maulden Perine, Thomas Deane, Jacob Israel,
John Feast, Cornelius Hollet, Nicholas Smith, Enoch
Burnett, Joshua B. Sumwalt, and all and every other

Western Mechanics Savings Institution of Baltimore,
in the manner hereafter mentioned, shall be, and are
hereby created and made a corporation and body poli-

Name and style.

tic, by the name and style of the Western Mechanics
Savings Institution of Baltimore, and by that name

Legal capacities.

shall have succession, and be capable by law to hold
and dispose of property, to sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, answer and defend, and be answered
and defended in courts of law and equity, or in any
other place whatever, and to receive and make all
deeds, transfers, contracts, covenants, conveyances