place, and direct the manner of holding the elec-
tions for. President and Directors, which shall be
annual, may provide for calling general meetings
of the Shareholders, the mode of transferring the
stock of said company, and of reasonable proof of
ownership therein for that purpose, and may have
authority to fix the amount of toll to be paid by

persons using or passing along said road; pro-
vided, that the rates shall not be more than dou-
ble those specified for the Baltimore and Freder-
icktown Turnpike Company, in the Act of eight-
een hundred and four, Chapter fifty-one, section
twenty.

Proviso.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the President
and Directors so to be chosen be and they are
hereby authorized and empowered to cut, dig and
make a turnpike road, properly paved with stone,
between the said places herein named, not to ex-
ceed sixty feet in width, with the necessary slopes)
of which eighteen feet shall be an artificial road)
and to be so graded that it shall in no case exceed
seven degrees, the said company to use, if deemed
by them expedient, the bed of the present county
road between the said places, with power, how-
ever, to deviate therefrom in whole or in part,
wherever the said company may deem such devi-
ation necessary or judicious, the said President and
Directors first obtaining, in writing, the consent
of the owners of such .land, over which the said
road shall pass; or if such consent cannot be had,
and the said company deem it necessary to pass
through the said land for the said road, then the
President and Directors, on behalf of the com-
pany, shall apply to a Justice of the Peace for
said county, who shall thereupon issue his war-
rant directed to the Sheriff of the county, com-
manding him to summon twenty disinterested
persons qualified to serve as jurors in the Circuit
Court, to meet on the said land, at the proper
time, as directed by said Sheriff, giving at least
five days notice to the parties interested or their
agents; and after four of the Jurors so summoned
are stricken off' the panel by the said President
or his agent, and four others by the person or per-
sons interested in said land, or his or her agent,
or in the absence of, or refusal to strike off, four

President and
Directors au-
thorized.