1840.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 245.

Passed March
9, 1847.

CHAPTER 244.

An act entitled, an act to enable Thomas Stiles, of Jeffer-
son County, State of Virginia, to hire a slave in the
State of Maryland.

Hire a slave in

this State.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passnge of this act, Thomas
Stiles, of Jefferson county, State of Virginia, or his
agent be, and he is hereby authorised to hire a slave
named John Washington, the slave of the said Stiles,

Provisoes.

within the State of Maryland; provided, that said Stiles
conforms to the provisions of the laws, so far as they
require a list of a slave brought into this State, to be
filed with the clerk of the county to which he is brought
and provided further, that said Stiles pay the amount re-
quired for the use of the Colonization Society.

CHAPTER 245.

Passed March
9, 1847.

A further supplement to an act relating to the Citizens'
Bank of Baltimore.

Bank to re-
sume when the
act of 1844, ch.
110, is com-
plied with.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That whenever the requisitions of the third
section of the act passed at December session, eight
teen hundred and forty-four, chapter one hundred
and ten, shall have been complied with by the Citizens'
Bank of Baltimore, the said bank may resume its bank-
ing business whenever there shall be paid in, as a part of
the capital of said bank, the sum of fifty thousand dollars
in specie.

President to
certify to the
Treasurer.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That upon the day
when the said bank shall resume its business aforesaid,
the president of said bank shall certify the same to the
treasurer of the Western Shore, of Maryland, under the
signature and the seal of the bank, and the bank shall be-
come liable from the date of said certificate for the pay-
ment of the school tax.

Eligible to the
office of direc-
tor.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That at the next election
of directors, no person shall be eligible to the office of
director of said bank, who shall not be the holder of one
hundred shares of the stock thereof, nor remain in the office
of director, after he ceases to be a holder of said number