T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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CHAPTER 49.

AN ACT to authorise the issue of duplicate cer-
tificates, bonds or coupons, in the cases therein
mentioned.

Passed Mar.
6, 1856.

WHEREAS, owners of State stock have occasionally
been unable to obtain the interest due thereon in
consequence of the unavoidable loss of bonds or
coupons, during the recess of the Legislature; for
remedy thereof,

Preamble.

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Treasurer, be and he is here-
by authorised to issue new evidences of debt or
coupons of interest, showing on their face that they
are duplicates of bonds or coupons alleged to be
lost and corresponding in amount with the said lost

Treasurer au-
thorised.

bonds or coupons , Provided, That the holders of
such bonds or coupons before such renewal, shall by
legal and competent evidence prove to the satisfac-
tion of the Treasurer, the loss of said bonds or cou-
pons and shall give to him satisfactory, security to
indemnify the State, against any other claim or de-
mand on account of said bonds or coupons alleged
to be lost.

Proviso.

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

CHAPTER 50.

In force.

AN ACT amendatory of an act, entitled an act to
incorporate the Maryland and Delaware Railroad
Company, passed at January session, eighteen
hundred and fifty-four, chapter two hundred and
seventy-four, granting extensions of said Rail Road
and other privileges.

Passed Mar.
6, 1856.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That no stockholder of the Maryland

Not to be ex-
cluded.