SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1820.

And provided also, the said Thomas B. Hall shall comply with all
the other necessary requisites of said acts.

CHAP. CII.

CHAP. 101.

An Act for the benefit of the Conococheague Bank in Williamsport, in Wash-
ington County.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That so
much of the several acts to which this is a supplement, which re-
quires the Conococheague Bank, in Williamsport, to pay the sum
of twenty cents upon every hundred dollars of the capital stock
actually paid, or which may hereafter be paid in, is hereby re-
pealed, and that the said bank shall be released from the payment
of the said tax since the first day of January 1820, and ever
thereafter, and that the said charter shall remain and be in force
as if the said tax had been regularly paid according to the pro-
visions of said charter, any thing therein contained to the con-
trary notwithstanding.

Passed Jan. 31, 1821.

Tax on capital
stock released.

2. And be it enacted, That the President and Directors of the
Conococheague Bank, are hereby authorised and empowered, to
sell at public auction, or otherwise, any real property which the
said corporation now holds; and the president of said bank for
the time being, shall be fully empowered to convey the same by a
good and sufficient deed of conveyance, to the purchaser or pur-
chasers of said real property.

May sell real pro-

perty.

3. And be it enacted, That this act shall cease to have any effect
should the said bank proceed to transact any other business than
such as may bo necessary to wind up the concerns of the same.

In a certain event

set to cease.

CHAP. CIII.

An Act for the benefit of Thomas Ennalls Price, of Talbot County.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Thomas Ennalls Price, of Talbot county, be and he is hereby
authorised and empowered, at any time during the period of three
years from and after the passage of this art, to remove and in-
port into this state from the state of Louisiana, his three negro
slaves, Adam, Govert and Anthony, and that the removal and im-
portation of said slaves shall not be deemed or taken, or in any

Passed Feb. 1, 1821.

Authorised to re-
move slaves into
this state.

manner be construed, or operate to entitle them to freedom; Pro-
vided, that the said Thomas Ennalls Price shall, within six months
after the said slaves shall have been removed as aforesaid, make,
out and deliver to the clerk of Talbot county court a certificate
or list of said slaves, stating therein the names, ages, and sexes
of the same, which certificate or list of the said clerk is hereby
authorised and required to record in the same manner as is directed
by the act entitled, An act relating to negroes, and to repeal the
acts of assembly therein mentioned, passed at November session
seventeen hundred and ninety-six.

Proviso.

CHAP. CIV.

An Act to permit John Patterson, of Baltimore County, to bring certain Ne-
groes from Virginia into this State.

WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, that John Pat-
terson, of Baltimore county, a native of this state, who lately re-
turned to it from Virginia, where he resided for some years, and

Passed Feb. 1, 1821.

Preamble.