1852.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 235

Court to ra-
tify sale, if
fair and bona
fide.

return said wills to the Circuit court for Kent county,
together with a report of his proceedings thereunder,
verified by his oath; and the said court, on the appli-
cation of the purchaser of the said lands, or of any one
interested therein, and being satisfied that notice of
the intended application has been given, by advertise-
ment published in some newspaper printed in Kent
county, for three successive weeks before such applica-
tion, is hereby authorised to ratify and confirm said
sale, if it be proved to the satisfaction of said court,
that the said sale was fair and bona fide, after due no-
lice, and that the purchase money therefor has been
paid, and in case the said court shall ratify the sale as
aforesaid, then the said court shall, also, order and direct
the said Absalom W. Sparks, to convey the said lands
to the purchaser by deed executed and acknowledged
according to law.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 235.

Passed May
21, 1852.

AN ACT to Prevent the Circulation of Notes or Bills

of a Denomination less than Five Dollars.

Notes of other
States.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That from and after the first day of Oc-
tober, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, it shall not be
lawful for any person, firm, or association of persons,
corporation, or body politic, to pay out, circulate, or
receive in payment of any debt any bank-note, promis-
sory note, or other obligation, payable to bearer, or en-
dorsed in blank, or to bearer, or any other note, token,
scrip, or device whatsoever, devised or intended for cir-
culation as currency, issued without the limits of this
State, of a less denomination than five dollars, under
the penalty of five dollars for each and every offence,
to be recovered by an action of debt, in the name of
the State, before any justice of the peace of the State.

Penalty—to
whom paid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That one half of the
penally recovered in any case under this act, shall go
to the informer, and the residue shall be paid to the
collector of county or city taxes, for the use of the
county or city where the same may be prosecuted for ;
and in all cases, the informer shall be a competent wit-
ness.