SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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ed to advantage among the several stock-holders, until every part
and parcel of the common stock of the corporation shall be fully

disposed of and distributed in proportion to the interest respec-
tively of every individual who may at such time be an owner or
holder of any share or shares of the said stock; Provided always,
That no suit then depending for or against the said society, shall be
thereby abated; neither shall any bargain or contract then subsisting
by or with the same, be, in any respect altered or impaired in con-

sequence thereof.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

12. And be it enacted, That the certificates of stock in said
company shall be in the following form and no other: "Baltimore
18 . This is to certify that is
entitled to shares of stock in the Baltimore society for
the encouragement of industry;" said certificate to be signed by
the president under the seal of the corporation, and to be only
transferrable by a special endorsement.

Certificates.

CHAPTER 63.

An act to settle and ascertain the Salary of the Members of the
Council for the ensuing year.
Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That

each member of the council shall be entitled to receive for the ensu-
ing year, the sum of five hundred dollars current money, for his sa-
lary.

Passed Jan. 18,

1822.

Salary $500.

CHAPTER 64.

An act to lay out ground for a Wharf and Lumber-Yard, on Stable-
ford's Creek, in Dorchester county.
Whereas, It is represented to this general assembly, by the
petition of sundry inhabitants of Dorchester county, that they la-
bor under great inconveniences for want of a public wharf and
lumber-yard on Stableford's Creek in Dorchester county—There-

fore,

Passed Jan. 18,
1822.

Preamble.

Sec. 1. BE it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,

That Levin King, Richard Tubman, Matthias Travers, John S.
McNamara and Robert Hart, are hereby appointed commissioners
to lay out, survey, mark and bound a piece of ground for a public
wharf and lumber-yard on Stableford's Creek, in Dorchester county,
being at the western termination of the road leading from the main
county road to said creek, not exceeding two acres, in such form
as the nature of the ground and the convenience of the land-hold-

ers.*

Commission-

ers.

2. And be it enacted, That the levy court of the said county,

shall levy on the assessable property of the said county, a sum
which they shall deem sufficient to pay the expenses of the said
location, and the damages which the proprietors of the said land

shall sustain by reason of the condemnation thereof.

3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners or a ma-
jority of them, shall ascertain the damages which any person or
persons may sustain by reason of the said wharf and lumber-yard
being laid out from his, her or their lands.

Damages.

* There seems an omission here both in the original and engrossed bills, which
I am not at liberty to supply.

STATE PRlNTER