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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or about the fifth day of December, eighteen hundred
and fifty-three, were stolen or taken from the agent
of the said William Nelson, and have not yet been,
nor in all probability will ever be recovered, although
ail proper efforts for that purpose have been made ;
therefore,

Authority to
issue new cer-
tificates.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Treasurer of the State be and
he is hereby authorised to issue to the said William Nel-
son, new certificates, shewing on their face that they are
duplicates of the certificates alleged to be lost, and cor-
responding in amount with said lost certificates; which
duplicate certificates shall entitle the said William Nel-
son, so long as he shall be the holder thereof, to receive
the principal and interest due, and to become due, on
the said lost certificates, when and as the same shall
become due; and the said duplicate certificates shall be
assignable in the same manner the original certificates

Provisoes.

were; Provided, however, that the said Treasurer shall
be satisfied that the said certificates were lost as alleged,
and have not been found; and provided, also, that the
said William Nelson shall give to the Treasurer satis-
factory security to indemnify the State of Maryland
against any other claim or demand on account of the
said original certificates.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall go
into operation from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 44.

Passed
Feb. 24, 1854.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Llangollen, in Al-
legany county.

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the town of Llangollen, in Alle-
gany county, shall be and is hereby constituted an in-
corporate town, and the inhabitants thereof a body po-
litic and corporate, by the name of Commissioners of
Llangollen, and as such shall have succession, and by
their corporate name may sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded.