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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Dec. Sess.

1814.

5th. The mother bank, and the branch aforesaid may
discount notes or bills at any length of time not exceed-
ing six months; and may renew the same from time to
time at pleasure.

Shares not be
ing sold may
be disposed of.

23. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the whole
two thousand shares of stock shall not be sold by the
directors of the mother bank on the day of sale to be ap-
pointed as is before prescribed, that the said directors, or
any six of them, shall be and are hereby empowered from
time to time, as they may see proper, to sell the same to
any person or persons who may apply and contract for
the same, or any part thereof.

Frauds &c—
Prosecution.

94. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any director,
officer, or other person, having any share or capital of
the said bank stock, who shall commit any fraud or em-
bezzlement, touching the money or property of the bank,
shall he liable to be prosecuted in the name of the state,
by indictment for the same, in any court of law in this
state; and upon conviction thereof, shall, besides the re-
medy that may be had by action in the name of the pre-
sident and directors of the Farmers' bank of Somerset and
Worcester, for the fraud aforesaid, forfeit all his share or
stock in the said bank to the company.

CHAPTER 68.

Passed Jan. 21,
1815.

May import a
slave.

An act for the relief of Willy Janes of Montgomery
county.
SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the general assembly of
Maryland, That Willy Janes, be and he is hereby au-
thorised and empowered to remove, import, and bring
into this state, at any time within one year after the pas-
sage of this act, the slave he may be entitled to, under
the grant or bona fide gift of his father Henry Janes, of
the commonwealth of Virginia, and which slave shall have
been a resident of the commonwealth of Virginia three
whole years next preceding such removal or importation

Provisos.

and the same to retain as a slave; Provided, That no sale
or disposition of any such slave, shall be made until
the said slave shall have resided within this state three
whole years next preceding such sale, except in cases of
disposition by last will and testament, and disposition by
law, for bona fide debts, or consequent upon intestacy ;
Provided also, That he cause the said slave to be record-
ed in the clerk's office of Montgomery county, within
twenty days after such removal.

Passed Jan. 23,
1815.
Preamble.

CHAPTER 69.

An act to establish a bank, and incorporate a company
under the name of the Havre-de-Grace Bank.
WHEREAS, the agricultural, commercial and ma-
nufacturing interests of this state, will be promoted by
the establishment of a bank at Havre-de-Grace, in Har-
ford county; Therefore,