PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1847.

twenty years afterwards complete the said road from
Frederick to Leitersburg, according to the true intent
and meaning of this act, then in either of these cases it
shall and may be lawful for this State to resume all
and singular the rights, liberties and privileges hereby

granted to said company.

CHAP. 221.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from and after the day of its passage by the
legislature.

In force.

SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
shall be so construed as to authorise paid corporation
to issue any note, token or scrip, device or other evi-
dence of debt to be used as currency, and that the

Banking for-
bid.

legislature reserves to itself the right to alter, amend or
repeal this act of incorporation at pleasure.

CHAPTER 221.

Reservation.

An act supplemental to. an act passed at December ses-
sion eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter one
hundred and eighty-nine, and entitled, an act to autho-
rise the appointment of Justices of the Peace in the
City of Baltimore, with limited jurisdiction.

Passed

March 8, 1848.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and alter the passage of this act
it shall not be lawful for the justices of the peace ap-
pointed under and by virtue of the provisions of the act
to which this is a supplement, to take acknowledgments
of deeds or other instruments of writing.

Not to take
acknowledg-
ment of deeds
&c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from and immediately after the day of the pas-
sage thereof, and that all acts, all parts of acts inconsis-
tent herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed.

In force.

Inconsistent
acts repealed.