PHILIP P. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

pacity, a party to such suits, be incompetent as wit-
nesses.

CHAP. 102.

SEC. 21. And be it enacted. That this act shall en-
dure for thirty years from the date of its passage, and
should it not be renewed or extended at the expiration
of that time, then this accumulated capital of the said
company, after all its risks shall have run out and ex-
pired, and all claims against the company shall have
been satisfied, shall be divided pro rata among the
members of the company, or their legal representatives.

In force.

SEC. 22. And be it enacted, That nothing herein
contained, shall be construed to deprive the State of
Maryland from imposing such taxes upon the property
and effects of the company, as the said State may think
proper.

State may tax.

SEC. 23. And be it enacted, That nothing in this
act shall be so construed as to authorise this corporation
to issue any note, token, device, scrip or other evidence
of debt to be used as currency.

Banking forbid.

SEC. 24. And be it enacted, That the Legislature
reserves to itself the right to change, alter or repeal this
act of incorporation at pleasure.

Right reserved.

SEC. 25. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
contained, shall be construed to exempt the premium
notes, or other property of said company, from the pay-
ment of State and county taxes.

Not exempted
from taxation.

CHAPTER 102.

An act to repeal part of an act therein mentioned.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the fifth section of an act passed December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, chapter three
hundred and twenty, entitled, an act relating to attach-
ments issued by justices of the peace, so far as the same
relates to Kent county, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed; and that this act shall take effect and be in
force from and after the passage thereof.

Passed Feb.

19, 1850.

Repealed in
part.