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State or nation, shall not rest upon the said State, in any suit
or prosecution, but it shall be incumbent upon the defendant
or defendants, traverser or thraversers to show that the cor-
poration for which said defendant or defendants, traverser or
traversers may have acted as agents was duly incorporated
by this State; and whenever any person or persons shall pro-
fess or hold himself, herself or themselves out as agent for
more than one corporation, individual corporation, he, she or
they shall, upon proof of said holding out, be held and ad-
judged guilty of, and both for as many separate offers under
the laws, as there are or may be individuals, association or
corporations professed or held out to be represented by him.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the act of Assembly,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and forty-six,
chapter three hundred and fifty-seven, entitled, an act relating
to Foreign Corporations and their Agencies in this State,
providing for the granting of licenses to insurance companies
not incorporated by the State, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed; Provided, however, that all rights acquired by the
State, under said act, are hereby expressly reserved, and that
nothing in this act contained, shall prevent the enforcing of
the penalties incurred by persons who may have heretofore
violated said act; and that it shall be the duty of the State's
Attorney, in the several counties and in the city of Baltimore,
to proceed, in the name of the State, to recover by action of
debt or indictment, the penalty prescribed by the Sixth Sec-
tion of said act, against all offenders thereunder, in the same
manner as if said act had not been repealed.

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That the provisions of this act
shall not apply to the agents of any corporation, association
or individual to whom a license has been granted, under the
act of eighteen hundred and forty-six; chapter three hundred
and fifty-seven, until the expiration of said existing license.

Mr. Stirling, from the committee on Judiciary, reported
favorably on a bill entitled, an act to cede jurisdiction to the
United States over land acquired by the Government thereof,
within the limits of this State, for purposes authorised by the
Constitution and laws of the United States ;

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Kilbourn, from the committee on Judiciary, reported
favorably on the bill entitled, an act to make the city of Bal-
timore and Anne Arundel county, adjoining jurisdiction.

Which was read the first time, and referred to the Balti-
more city, Baltimore county and Anne Arundel delegations.

Mr. Hobbs, from the committee on Printing, made the fol-
lowing