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292 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 25, company shall be, and they are hereby incorporated and' constituted a body politic, by the name of the Deer Park Turnpike Road Company in Baltimore county, and by the same name shall have succession during the continuance of this corporation; and the said stockholders and their suc- cessors, by the above authority, may sue and besued, answer and be answered, in any Court of Law or Equity in this State, and may adopt and use a common seal, and may do and execute every other matter and thing by the name afore- said that they are authorized to do by virtue of this Act. SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That the President and Direc- tors, after their election as hereinbefore provided for, shall have full power to receive additional subscriptions for the completion of said road, and said President and Di- rectors are hereby invested with all the rights and powers necessary to the construction of said road, on the bed of the- county road called the Deer Park road, or as nearly as may be practicable so to do, making an artificial bed of stone, not less than sixteen feet in breadth. SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That the President and Di- rectors of said company shall have full power to widen the said road, whenever and wherever it shall be found necessary for construction of the same. SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That as soon as the said com- pany shall have completed three miles of said road, and so on from time to time a like distance of three miles, they shall give notice to the County Commissioners of Baltimore county, who shall thereupon appoint three judicious and disinterested persons to view and examine the same, and report to the said County Commissioners whether the said road is so far com- pleted in a workmanlike manner, according to the true in- tent and meaning of this Act ; and if their report be in the affirmative, the said County Commissioners shall issue to the President and Directors of said company a license to erect and fix such and so many toll gates upon and across the said road as will be necessary and sufficient to collect the tolls and duties hereinafter granted to the said company from all persons traveling on the same with horses, cattle, wagons, carts and carriages. SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the said company hav- ing completed the road, or so much thereof from time- to time as aforesaid, it shall or may be lawful for them to appoint such and so many toll-gatherers as they shall think proper, to collect and receive of and from all and every person or persons using the said road, the tolls and rates hereinafter mentioned, and to stop any person riding, leading or driving any horse, mares or gelding, cattle, sheep, hogs, sulky, chaise, chair, |
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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, March 30, 1868
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