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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Proviso.

now collected; Provided, however, that nothing
in this act shall be construed to effect the estate
of a deceased person, except to authorise the said
administrator to recover any claim or balance due
by a deceased person in the same manner that
claims against deceased persons are now recovered
by law.

Balances to be
first applied to
relief of sure-
ties.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the claims, fees
and balances due the said Thomas P. Turner as
aforesaid, when collected by the said administra-
tor shall be first applied by him to the relief of
the securities on the bond of said Turner as De-
puty Sheriff, before any part thereof shall be ap-
plied to the relief of his general creditors, or to
the benefit of his estate in other particulars.

In force.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from its passage.

CHAPTER 80.

Passed Febru-
ary 23, 1858.

AN ACT to incorporate the President and Di-
rectors of the American Fire Insurance Com-
pany of Baltimore.

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That James S. Armstrong, Wil-
liam Welsh, David Ball, Augustus P. Webb,
William J. Hiss, Robert G. Armstrong, Nicholas
L. Wood, William H. Welsh, Eli Ross Horner,
Richard D. Shields, Edward C. Thomas, John E.
Hobson, Otho W. Eichelberger, John W. Welsh,
John T. Ford, and the subscribers to the stock of
the Association, and their successors, shall be and
they are hereby declared to be a body politic and
corporate, by the name and style of the President
and Directors of the American Fire Insurance
Company of Baltimore, and by that name shall
have perpetual succession, and be capable in law
to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, an-
swer and be answered, defend and be defended,
in all courts of law or equity, or elsewhere, to