1837.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 78.

under the insolvent laws of this State; provided the
said Richard Ringgold has in all respects complied
with the several acts relating to insolvent debtors, ex-
cept in his identity as the party grantor being certified
to in the acknowledgment to the said deed.

CHAPTER 78.

Passed Jan. 10,
1838.

An act further to continue an act passed at November
session seventeen hundred and ninety-five, entitled, an
act to Incorporate the Maryland Insurance Company.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, the stockholders of the Maryland Insur-
ance Company have prayed that the act whereby they
were incorporated, entitled, an act to incorporate the
Maryland Insurance Company, passed at November
session seventeen hundred and ninety-five, which by
its own limitation, and that of the continuing act of
December session eighteen hundred and nineteen, chap-
tor ninety one, will expire at the end of the session of
the General Assembly next after the first of June eigh-
teen hundred and thirty-eight, may be further continu-
ed:— Therefore,

Continued to
1858.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the said act, entitled, an act to Incor-
porate the Maryland Insurance Company be, and the
same is hereby continued, and shall be and remain in
force until the first day of June eighteen hundred and
fifty-eight, and until the end of the next session of the
General Assembly which shall happen thereafter, un-
less the same shall before that time be repealed by law;
provided, that no such repeal shall go to affect any
policy that may be. made or any contract already in
existence at the time of said repeal.

Banking prohi-
bited.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
contained, nor in the act of incorporation hereby con-
tinued in force, shall be construed to confer upon the
said company banking privileges, or the power to issue
a bank note or any thing in the form of a bank note or
certificates of deposite payable to bearer.