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CHAP. 326.
Directors indi-
vidually respon-
sible.
Action may be
brought.
Lands, &c. also
liable.
Proviso.
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amount of two-thirds of its capital actually paid in, the
directors under whose administration this may happen,
shall be liable for the same in their natural and private ca-
pacities, and an action may in such case be brought
against them, or any of them, or their heirs, executors OF
administrators, in any court of record in this State, by
any creditor or creditors of the said corporation, and may
be prosecuted to judgment and execution, any condition,
covenant or agreement to the contrary notwithstanding;
but nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt
the said corporation, or the lands, tenements, goods and
chattels and estate of the same from being also liable for,
and chargeable with the said excess; provided always,
that such of the said directors as may have been absent
when the said excess was created, and who may have dis-
sented from the resolution or act whereby the same was
created, may respectively exonerate themselves from being
so liable, by forthwith giving notice of the fact, and of
their absence or dissent to the Governor of this State, and
have power to call for that purpose.
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Banking forbid.
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SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
contained shall be so construed as to confer banking
privileges on the company aforesaid, nor the right to is-
sue any note, certificate or other device in the nature of
a bank note.
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In force.
Rights reserved.
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SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall con-
tinue in force for the period of thirty years and thereafter,
and shall at all times from and after the organization of
the company hereby incorporated, be liable to be amended
or repealed, either in whole or in part, at the pleasure of
the legislature.
CHAPTER 326.
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Passed Mar. 7,
1840.
Divorce.
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An act to divorce Abraham Cuyk, from his wife Susan L.
Cuyk.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Abraham Cuyk, of Baltimore city, be and he is
hereby divorced from his wife Susan L. Cuyk, a vinculo
matrimonii.
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