T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the said Compa-
ny si/all not be authorised to issue any certificate,
note, scrip, or other device to be used as currency.

CHAPTER 147.

Not to exer-
cise banking
privileges.

AN ACT to incorporate a Bank at Centreville, in
Queen Anne's County.

Passed Mar.
8, 1856.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That a Bank to be called and known
by the name of the Queen Anne's County Bank, shall
be established at Centreville in said County, with a
Capital Stock of one hundred thousand dollars, to be
divided into two thousand shares of twenty-five dol-
lars each, and that the same shall be wholly paid in
specie.

Capital stock.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That James T. Earle,
George C. Palmer, John B. Thomas, John R. Emory,
Washington Finley, Samuel T. Harrison, William H.
C. Roe, Stephen J. Bradley, Mordecai Price, James
Merrick, William J. Bryan, Charles J. B. Mitchell,
William S. Price, Alexander W. Thompson, Charles
Stevens and Roderick W. Earrickson, be and are
hereby appointed Commissioners, with authority to

Commission-
ers.

them or a majority of them, to open books of sub-
scription for the Stock of said Bank at Centreville,
and such other places as the said Commissioners, or
a majority of them may deem advisable on a day or
days to be appointed for that purpose, notice whereof
shall be published at least three weeks previous
thereto, in the newspapers printed in Queen Anne's
County, and the said Commissioners or a majority
of them shall cause the said books to be opened at
the place or places so appointed, from ten o'clock, A.
M., to four P. M.: for each and every day so speci-
fied unless the said Capital Stock shall be sooner
subscribed, to receive subscription; and no subscrip-
tions by any persons residing out of the said county,
or on account of or in trust for any non-residents of
said County, shall be received on the three first days
of the opening the books aforesaid; and if more
than the said four thousand shares shall be subscribed

Books to be
opened.