1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 245.

liable in his person or property for any contract of, or
claim against said corporation, but that the joint stock,
property, credits, rights and effects of said company and
nothing more shall be liable for the same, and the ser-
vice of legal process on any of the directors shall be a
sufficient service on the aforesaid corporation.

In force.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That this act shall con-
tinue and be in force for twenty years from the passage
thereof, and that the Legislature reserves the right to
alter or repeal this act at its pleasure.

Banking forbid.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That nothing in this
act shall be so construed as to authorise the said corpo-
ration to issue any note, token, device, scrip or other evi-
dence of debt to be used as currency.

CHAPTER 245.

Passed Mar. 4,
1850.

A further supplement to the act passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and forty-one, chapter two
hundred and sixty-two, entitled, an act to give ju-
risdiction to the Chancellor and County Courts, as
Courts of Equity , in cases of Divorce.

Jurisdiction
enlarged.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the chancellor and the county
courts, sitting in equity, shall have power to decree di-
vorces, a vinculo matrimonii, as provided for in the acts
of December session, eighteen hundred and forty-one,
chapter two hundred and sixty-two, and the supplement
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and for-
ty-four, chapter three hundred and six, as well where
the parties nave lived separate and apart, without any
reasonable expectation of reconciliation, in the State, as
where the party complained against has lived out of it.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall go
into effect from after the passage thereof.