1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 161.

In deciding on
exception court
may award costs,
&c.

proved in the same manner as allegations in a bill which are de-
nied or not admitted, and in both the said cases the court shall
make such final decree as to right shall appertain.
8. And be it enacted, That in deciding on exceptions to answers
in the chancery court, or in the county courts as courts of equity,
the said courts respectively may award the costs of the excep-
tions, and the order thereon, to the party prevailing, including a
fee to the solicitor or attorney equal in amount to the solicitor's
or attorney's fee in the suit.

Passed Feb. 12, 1821.

President or di-
rector of any char-
tered bank, em-
bezzling, &c
to be deemed
guilty of felony.

CHAP. CLXII

An Act to punish certain Breaches of Trust.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That if
any president or director of any bank chartered by the laws of
this state, shall fraudulently embezzle, secrete, or make way
with, any money, goods, bill, bond, note, check, evidence of debt,
or other valuable security or effects, belonging to such bank,
every such offender, his adviser, procurer, aider or abettor, shall
be deemed guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof shall be
sentenced to imprisonment and labour in the penitentiary, for not
less than five years nor more than fifteen years.

Punishment of
any cashier, &c,
for embezzling,
&c.

2. And be it enacted, That if any cashier, servant, agent or
clerk, or any person employed for the purpose or in the capacity
of cashier, servant, agent or clerk, to any person or persons
whomsoever, or to any body corporate or politic, shall by virtue
of such employment, receive, or take into his possession any
money, goods, bill, note, bond, check, evidence of debt, or other
valuable security or effects, for and in the name or on account of
his employer or employers, and shall fraudulently embezzle, se-
crete, or make way with the same, or any part thereof, every
such offender shall be deemed guilty of having feloniously stolen
the same from his employer or employers, for whoso use, or in
whose name or names, or on whose account, the name was or
were delivered to or taken into the possession of such cashier,
servant, clerk, or other person employed, although such money,
goods, bill, bond, note, check, evidence of debt, or other valuable
security or effects, was or were no otherwise received into the
possession of such employer, than by the actual possession of his
or their cashier, servant or clerk, or other person so employed,
and every such offender, his adviser, aider, procurer or abettor,
shall, on conviction thereof, be sentenced to imprisonment and
labour in the penitentiary, for not less than five nor more than
fifteen years, in the discretion of the court.

Act repealed.

3. And be it enacted, That the act, entitled, An act for the pu-
nishment of offences committed against banks by the officers
thereof, passed at December session eighteen hundred and nine-
teen, chapter one hundred and forty-five, be and the same is here-
by repealed.

Passed Feb. 13, 1821.

Authorised to dis-
pose of 500 copies

of Weekly Regis-
ter, &c.

CHAP. CLXIII.

An Act to enable Hezekiah Niles, of the City of Baltimore, to dispose of cer-
tain Books in the manner therein mentioned.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Hezekiah Niles, of the city of Baltimore, be and he is hereby