1847.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 175.

Banking for-
bid.

Reservation.

are hereby granted to the stockholders of this com-
pany.
Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
shall be construed as to authorise said corporation to
issue any note, taken or scrip, or other evidence
of debt to be used as a currency; and that the Legis-
lature reserves to itself the right, to alter or amend,
this act of incorporation at pleasure.

CHAPTER 174.

Passed

March 3, 1848.

Name chang-
ed.

An act to alter and change the name of William
Lemuel Bateman, of the city of Baltimore.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the name of William Lemuel Bateman, a citizen
of Maryland, and a resident of the city of Baltimore,
be and the same is hereby altered and changed to
William Thomas Henry Worthington and it shall be
lawful for the said William Thomas Henry Worthing-
ton at all times hereafter to be called and known by,
and hold and use the name of William Thomas Henry
Worthington, and by that name shall have the light
to purchase, sell, convey, devise or receive by bequest
any property hereafter devised, to sue and be sued in
any court of law and equity.

CHAPTER 175.

Passed
March 3, 1848.

Preamble.

A further supplement to an act entitled, an act to pro-
vide for the division of the City of Baltimore into
twenty wards, and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, doubts are entertained whether, in the
language used in the supplementary act, passed fourth
of March, eighteen hundred and forty-six, relating to
the election of members of the second branch of the
city council of Baltimore, an alteration of the day of
election of said members from the second Wednesday
of October is not made, and which was not designed
but only to prescribe the tenure of said members and
to provide for their election biennially—Therefore,