| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
lieu of the sum now allowed (a), to be levied and collected according
to law.
(a) See Nov. 1779, ch. 25.
By 1817, ch. 96, and 1818, ch. 66, the allowance
to the sheriffs of Allegany and Frederick counties increased to twenty-five
cents
per day. |
1816.
CHAP. 178. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
continue and be in
force for one year, and until the end of the next session of the
general assembly thereafter.
Further continued by 1818, ch. 180. |
Duration. |
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CHAP. CLXXIX.
An Act to Incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike Road from
Elkton to the site of the proposed Bridge near
Rock Run. Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 320. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a company be incorporated to make a turnpike or artificial road
from the town of Elkton to the site of the Susquehanna Bridge
near Rock Run, on the river Susquehanna, to be located by the
president and managers hereafter to be appointed under the provisions
of this act. |
Company to be incorporated
to locate
a road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscription books
be opened for
a capital stock of thirty thousand dollars, in shares of twenty-five
dollars each, and that subscription be taken in the town of Elkton,
under the direction of James Sewall, Adam Whann and Tobias
Rudulph; at Port Deposit, under the direction of Joseph Cowden,
William C. Miller, and George Davidson, or any two of them;
and at Charlestown, under the direction of Samuel Hogg, Henry
Chamberlain and John N. Black, or any two of them, who are
hereby appointed commissioners for the purposes aforesaid, who
shall, on or before the first Monday in May next, procure books,
and in each enter as follows, to wit. " We whose names are hereunto
subscribed, do promise to pay to the president and managers of
the Elkton and Susquehanna Bridge Turnpike Company, the sum
of twenty-five dollars for every share of stock in said company set
opposite to our respective names. Witness our hands this _____
day of _____, eighteen hundred and _____;" and shall give notice in
two of the public papers in Baltimore, and in the newspapers
printed in the borough of Wilmington, for one month at least, of
the times when and the places where, the said books will be open
to receive subscriptions of stock for the said company, at which
times and places at least two of the said respective commissioners
shall attend, and shall permit and suffer all persons who shall offer
to subscribe in persons, or by attorney duly authorised, in the said
books, which shall be kept open for that purpose at least four hours
every day for the space of three days, if three days shall be necessary;
Provided nevertheless, that the said commissioners shall not
permit any one person or company to subscribe for more than
twenty-five shares in the said company during the first day in
which the said books shall be opened, nor more than fifty shares on
the second day; and if, after the expiration of the said three days,
the said books shall not have for the said road the full number subscribed,
the said commissioners mat adjourn from time to time until
the number of shares shall be subscribed, of which adjournment
public notice shall be given in the papers aforesaid, and when the |
Subscription
books to be opened.
Provisos. |
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