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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Sess.
1813.

relief against the president and directors of the corpora-
tion, as against private individuals, when they shall be
severally compelled to discover the interest or shares,
which each and every member of the corporation may
have therein, and upon such discovery being had, the
chancellor shall ascertain the proportionate parts of the
said judgment, which the said members severally ought
to pay, and he is hereby authorised to decree according-
ly the sum of money which each and every member of
the said corporation shall pay to the said plaintiff or plain-
tiffs.

Transfers of
stock. Debts.

Number of

11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no transfer of
stock in this company shall be made by any member
thereof, but such as shall be approved of by a majority
of the board of directors for the time being. And all
debts actually due and payable to the corporation by
any stock holder requesting a transfer of his stock, or
demanding a dividend, must be satisfied before such
transfer or dividend be made, unless the board of direc-
tors shall order it to the contrary.

shares that
may be held by
individuals.

12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no person or co-
partnership shall be a proprietor of more than ten shares
in the stock of this corporation.

Term of en-
actment.

13. AND BE IT ENACTED, that this act shall con-
tinue and remain in force for the term of fifteen years,
and until the end of the next session which shall happen
thereafter.

CHAPTER 56.

Passed Jan.
11, 1814.

Removal of
slaves not to
entitle them to
freedom.

An act explanatory of and supplemental to an act res-
pecting the bringing of slaves from the District of
Columbia into thin state.
Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That in case any slave hath been
removed, carried or brought, or shall hereafter be re-
moved, carried or brought, from any part of this state
into that part of the District of Columbia lying east of
the Potomack river, called Washington county; or in
case any slave hath been removed, carried or brought,
or shall hereafter be removed, carried or brought into
this state, from the said part of the District of Columbia,
the said removal, carrying, or bringing from or into this
state shall not entitle the said slave to freedom; Provided

Provisos.

nevertheless, That nothing in this act contained shall
give power or authority to an; person or persons to re-
move any slave or slaves, or their descendants from the
said district into the state of Maryland, which slave or
slaves, or their descendants shall have been or may be
brought into the said district from any of the United
States or territory thereof, except the state of Maryland;
Provided, That this act shall not extend to authorise the
reversal of any case now depending in the court of Ap-
peals.