LAWS OF MARYLAND

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case may be, to whom any application may be preferred for the
benefits of the insolvent laws of this state by the said Osborn
Sprigg, be, and they are hereby authorised and required to admit
the said Osborn Sprigg to all those benefits without requiring at
his hands any proof of citizenship or previous residence within
the state of Maryland, or without requiring of him any other
proofs, acts and performance than those which pre necessary on
the part of a citizen of the state of Maryland, in order to the ob-

Dec. Ses. 1824

tention of the insolvent laws of this state; Provided the said Os-
born Sprigg shall satisfy the judge or court, to whom he may make
application for the benefit of the said insolvent laws, that he did
not remove to, or come into this state with the intent to apply for
the benefit of said insolvent laws.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 32.

A supplement to the act entitled, An act to incorporate the Bellona Gun
Powder Company of Maryland.
Whereas, the stockholders of the said company, have by their
petition to this general assembly, represented that in consequence
of the decrease in their number, it is impracticable at present to
choose from their own body five directors, the number prescribed
by the fourth section of the act to which this is a supplement, and
have prayed that the stockholders of the said company may be
authorised and empowered hereafter to choose three directors only;
Therefore,

Passed Jan.
17, 1825.
Preamble.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be
lawful to, and for the stockholders of the Bellona, Gun Powder
Company of Maryland, at the times and in the manner prescribed
and limited in and by the fourth section of the said act, to which
this is a supplement, to choose three directors only, to manage all
the concerns of the company, and that so much of the said ori-
ginal act as required that the said stockholders should choose five
directors, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Three direc-
tors.

2. And be it enacted, That if this act shall be previously accepted
by the said company, and the acceptance thereof entered on the
journals or minutes of proceedings, then the same shall com-
mence and be in force from the day of acceptance thereof.

Acceptance
necessary.

CHAPTER 33.
An act to Incorporate the Village of Port Deposit in Cecil county.
Whereas, it is represented to this general assembly, that it
would greatly contribute to the advantage and improvement of the
village of Port Deposit in Cecil county, if the same should be
placed under the care and regulation of certain commissioners to
be elected by the citizens thereof, and vested with sufficient
powers to forward and effect the purposes intended; Therefore,

Passed Jan.
17, 1825.
Preamble.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the citizens of the village of Port Deposit, in Cecil county,
shall be, and they are hereby constituted and made a body corpo-
rate by the name of President and commissioners of the Vil-
lage of Port Deposit, and as such shall have perpetual succession,
and by their corporate name, may sue and be sued, plead and be

Incorpora-
tion.