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T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
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1860.
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wide, of which at least sixteen feet shall be com-
posed of broken stone, gravel or other hard sub-
stance, and erect and keep up bridges over the
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CHAP. 86.
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streams crossing the same, and whenever two miles
of said road shall be perfected, said company shall
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Tolls.
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be entitled to receive tolls; Provided, that no toll
shall be taken from any person passing from one
part of his farm to another, or to or from any place
of public worship or funeral on days appointed for
that purpose, or from militia men on days of train-
ing, or from voters on days of election, attending
the polls, going or returning from the same.
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Proviso.
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SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That said company
shall be and are hereby clothed and invested with
all the privileges, rights, immunities and advan-
tages which are held and possessed by the turnpike
company incorporated by an act passed at November
session, eighteen hundred and twelve, entitled an
act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike
road from the District of Columbia to the city of
Baltimore, to be governed by the same regulations
as are therein prescribed, and be entitled to the
same tolls, and every clause and provision of said
act relative to the road therein proposed to be made
shall be in force, as to the road herein contemplated,
as far as the same are applicable and not inconsis-
tent with this act.
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Vested rights.
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SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful
for any corporation or body politic in the United
States to become stockholders in said company.
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Stockholders.
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SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That if the said com-
pany do not proceed to carry on said work within
three years after the passage of this act, or shall
not within twenty years thereafter complete the
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Time for the
work limited.
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said road, then the rights and privileges granted
by this act shall be null and void, and if said road
shall pass over any county road now laid down in
Harford county, or any bridge built by said county,
the county commissioners are empowered to release
said company from the expense of building said
bridge or bridges, or opening said road, if they
deem it the interest of the people of said county so
to do, and the said county commissioners may sub-
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County com-
missioners
authorised to
take stock.
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scribe for as much stock to said road; Provided,
however, that the interest on such sum so sub-
scribed shall not exceed the annual sum laid out
for repairs on said road and bridges.
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Proviso.
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