THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

relief of the sick and distressed, and for the promotion
of their benevolent purposes generally.

CHAP. 202.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the funds and estate
of the corporation shall not, at any time, be divided or
distributed amongst the members or diverted from the
purposes contemplated by its formation, without the per-
mission of the General Assembly of Maryland, first had
and obtained.

Funds not to
be divided or
distributed.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act of incorpo-
ration shall continue and exist for fifty years from its
passage, unless the General Assembly of Maryland,
should alter, amend or annul it, which right is reserved,
to the legislature to exercise at pleasure.

Continue for
fifty yean.

Right reserv-
ed.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
shall be so taken or construed as to allow the said
corporation to issue any note, token, scrip, or device, to
to be used as a currency.

CHAPTER 202.

Issues forbid.

A supplement to the act passed at December session eigh-
teen hundred and forty four, chapter two hundred and
thirty seven, entitled an act imposing a tax on colla-
teral Inheritances, Distributive shares and Legacies, to
aid in paying the debts of the State.

Passed Mar.
2, 1846.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That, from and after the first day of June,
next, it shall be the duly of all and every executor
and executors, administrator and administrators, to whom
letters testamentary or of administration, shall be grant-
ed, within thirteen months, or sooner if practicable, from
the date of their letters, and also before the legacies or
distributive shares, subject to a tax, under the provisions
of the act to which this is a supplement, are paid over
to the party or parties entitled thereto, to pay to the
register of wills, as directed by the said act, the tax

Executors,
to pay tax.

thereby imposed, for which the said register shall give
receipts, agreeably to the said original act, and account
for and pay the same into the treasury, as is hereinafter
directed; and in case of failure on the part of any such
executor or executors, administrator or administrators,
to comply with the provisions of this or the original act,
the commission which would otherwise be allowed him,
her or them, shall be forfeited and disallowed by the or-
phan's court.

Register give
receipt.