1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 329.

possession of, or use any wharf or landing without the
consent of the owner or owners of such wharf or landing.

General meet-
ings.

Notice required.

How conducted.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the board of directors,
or the stockholders holding a majority of the stock, shall
have power at any time to call a general meeting of the
stockholders by giving notice at least three times a week
for three weeks, in two of the newspapers in the city of
Baltimore, for the time and place of such general meeting
of the stockholders; and at all such meetings of the stock-
holders the votes shall be given as in the manner of elec-
ting directors, and a majority of the stock represented at
said meetings shall have the power of closing and wind-
ing up the concerns of said company.

Right reserved
to levy tax, &c.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
contained shall be construed to restrict the right of the
legislature, which is hereby reserved in its fullest extent, to
impose from time to time, and at all times hereafter, and
levy such reasonable tax by license or otherwise upon all
steam boats, vessels or other properly, estate or funds, in
which the capital stock of the said company hereby in-
corporated shall be invested, in common with similar steam
boats, vessels, property, estate or funds of any other com-
pany, corporation or individual of this State.

In force.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That this act shall conti-
nue in force until the end of the year eighteen hundred
and sixty, and until the end of the next session of the
General Assembly which shall happen thereafter.

Banking forbid.

Rights reserved.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
contained, shall be construed to authorise the said cor-
poration to issue any paper to be used as a currency, or in
any form as a circulating medium; and the legislature
hereby reserves to itself the right to amend, modify or re-
peal this act at its pleasure.

CHAPTER 329.

Passed Mar. 19,
1840.

An act to authorise the recording a certain Deed.

Deed to be re-
corded.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the clerk of Carroll county be authorised to record
a deed from David Brown, executor of Joshua Brown,
to Nicholas H. Brown, executed on the sixteenth day Jan-
uary, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and that the said
deed so recorded, shall be as valid and effectual as if re-