1895.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 396.

CHAT. 397.

Passed June 4, 1836

A supplement to an act, entitled, an act, to Incorporate

the Farmers' and Planters' Bank, of Baltimore, pas-

sed at December Session, eighteen hundred and thirty-

five.

May loan funds till in operation

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the commissioners of the Farmers'

and Planters' Bank of Baltimore, be, and they are

hereby empowered to loan or put out at interest on

such securities, as they shall deem safe and proper,

all such sums as may have been, or shall hereafter he

received by them, for subscriptions to the capital stock,

until the lime of the organization of said bank.

May sell not ex-

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners

ceeding 40,000 sharps of stock abroad

or the president and directors of said bank, may, and

they are hereby authorised to sell to the citizens of

any foreign country, any number .not exceeding forty

thousand shares of the capital stock of said bank, for

not less than the nominal amount or par value of

the same, without making a formal opening of the

hooks, and without giving the four weeks public no-

tice as required in the act, of Incorporation.

CHAPTER 397.

Passed June 4, 1836

An act supplemental to an act, entitled, an act to estab-

lish Magistrates' Courts in the several counties of

this State, and to prescribe their jurisdiction, passed

at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-

five.

County Court juris-diction to contin-

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of

ue till these

Maryland, That in all the counties of this State, where

courts are organ-

ized

the Magistrates' Courts have not been organized,

and in each election district where the said courts are

not organized, the county courts shall have jurisdiction

over all cases which by law was vested in said county

courts before the passage of the law to which this is a

Proviso

supplement; Provided however, that no cause which

shall have been instituted in the county courts, before

the organization of the Magistrates' Courts as afore-