1837.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 349.

sum of twenty cents on each one hundred dollars of
the capital stock paid in of the said bank, to be paid
annually into the Treasury, as provided for in and by
the fifteenth section of the aforesaid act.

Time on ba-
lance due

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the residue of the
bonus fixed by this act, over and above the sum of six
thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, already paid
into the State Treasury, shall not be required to be
paid to the Treasurer until the first day of January,

Proviso

in the year eighteen hundred and forty; provided how-
ever, that the President and Directors of said Bank
shall not use or call in a greater amount of said capi-
tal than one hundred and sixty-six thousand six hun-
dred and sixty-six and one-third dollars, until that pe-
riod, without giving immediate notice thereof to the
State Treasurer, and paying over to him, for the use
of the State, immediately on the payment of such ad-
ditional capital, the residue of the bonus, on pain of
forfeiture of their charter.

Acceptance re-
quired.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That nothing herein con-
tained shall be of any force or effect, unless the Pre-
sident and Directors of the said Bank shall, on or be-
fore the first day of May next, pass and file with the
Governor of Maryland, a resolution authorised by its
stockholders, in general meeting, and under the com-
mon seal of the company, declaring its acceptance of
this act.

CHAPTER 149.

Passed Mar. 13,
1838.

An act to guard against frauds in the exercise of the
Elective Franchise, in the City of Baltimore.

Appointment of
Registers

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
it shall he the duty of the Governor, with the consent
of the Senate, to appoint two persons in each ward in

Their duty to
register voters.

the city of Baltimore as Registers of voters, whose
duty it shall be to keep and open books annually, in
which the names of each and every person shall be in-
serted who upon examination by said Registers, shall