LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1844.

or so much thereof as he or she may not have paid the re-
quired instalment upon, shall be, and the same is hereby
declared to be forfeited for the use of said company
SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act con-
tained, shall be taken or construed to authorise said com-
pany, or the president and directors thereof, to issue any
note, certificate or other evidence of debt, to be used as
money or currency, or to confer upon it, or them, any

CHAP. 236.

Issues forbid.

banking powers or privileges whatsoever.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That this act shall be in

In force from
the passage.

force from the passage thereof.
SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That this act shall remain
in force for thirty years, and that the Legislature reserves
to itself the right to change, alter or repeal this act of in-
corporation at pleasure.

Continue thir-
ty years.

Right reserv-
ed.

CHAPTER 236.

A further additional supplement to the act entitled, an act
for the General Valuation and Assessment of Property,
and to provide a tax to pay the debts of the State, passed
at March session, eighteen hundred and forty-one, chapter
twenty-three.

Passed March
5, 1845.,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That if in the several counties of this State,
Howard District and the city of Baltimore, collectors of
the taxes now imposed or to be imposed by law for the
use of this State, shall not have been duly appointed and
qualified, as by the present laws are directed, it shall and
may be lawful for the Governor, and he is hereby autho-
rised and required, on the first day of May, next ensuing
the passage of this act, or as soon thereafter as conveni-
ently may be, to appoint a collector or collectors for such

Governor to
appoint collec-
tors, if the
counties, &c.
do not.

county, district or city, as the case may be, and the col-
lector or collectors so to be appointed, shall give bond to
be executed by him or them, with a surety or sureties to
be approved by the Governor, or some judge of the coun-
ty, city or district court, for which the collector or collec-
tors may be appointed, and to be recorded as required by
the original act, a copy of which bond, certified by the
clerk in whose office the same may be recorded, shall be

Give bond.

by him forthwith transmitted to the Treasurer and the
Governor of this State, and the collectors so to be ap-
pointed, shall have all the powers, capacities, and privi-

Powers con-
ferred.