1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 268.

answered, defend and be defended in any court of
justice whatever, and to make and use a common
seal, and the same to alter or renew at pleasure, and
severally to do and perform all things relative to the
management of the academy.

Banking forbid.

SEC. 8 And be it enacted, That nothing herein
contained, shall be so construed as to authorise or
empower said corporation to issue any note, certifi-
cate, token, or other evidence of debt, to be used as

Right reser-
ved.

a currency, and the right is hereby expressly reserved
to the General Assembly of Maryland, at its pleasure,
to alter, amend or annul this act of incorporation.

CHAPTER 268.

Passed Feb. 27,
1850.

An act to establish a Bank, and incorporate a Compa-
ny, to be styled the Farmers and Mechanics Bank
of Carroll County.

Incorporated,

&c.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That a Bank, to he called and known
by the name of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of
Carroll county, shall be established in the town of
Westminster, in said county, and that the capital
stock of the said Bank shall be limited to three hun-
dred thousand dollars, to consist of twelve thousand
shares, of twenty-five dollars each.

Commissioners
to receive sub-
scriptions.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That a book of sub-
scription for six thousand shares shall be opened at
Westminster, under the direction of Nicholas Durbin,
Abraham Shaffer, Jacob Shower, Abraham Wampler,
George Crouse, William Bachman, John K. Long-
well, George Everhart, Joshua Smith, George Show-
er, David Frankfurter, David Cassell, Joseph Oren-
dorff, Jacob Mathias, John Roop, junior, Michael Sul-
livan, Abraham Roop, David H. Shriver, Jacob Reese,
David Geiman, Andrew K. Shriver, Jacob Maus, Ja-
cob Righter, Abraham Baile, Mordecai G. Cockey,
Nimrod Gardner, Nathan Brown, John H. Lindsay,
Henry Devriese, Joseph Steele, Robert T. Shipley,
Joseph Ebaugh, Thomas Wells, Richard Richards,
Daniel Hoover, and also another at Uniontown for
six thousand shares, under the direction of William
Shepherd, Isaac Slingluff, John Smith, of Joshua,
Lewis Shuer, John Roberts, John Weaver, John Ma-