THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 241
rectors, or a majority of them, it shall be lawful
for the said Company to cause any Justice of the
Peace for Carroll or Frederick Counties, as the
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case may be located, to issue his warrant to the
Sheriff directing him to summon twenty impartial
jurors (each party the right to strike four), to
meet on said land on a day to be therein named,
to assess the damages sustained by said owner or
owners by reason of said road passing through or
over said land, taking into consideration the ad-
vantages and disadvantages pertaining thereto,
which inquisition shall be returned to the Clerk's
office of the county wherein assessed, and either
party shall have the right to appeal to the Circuit
Court of the county to which the return may be
made, within sixty days from the verdict or finding
of the said jury.
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Number of
jurors.
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Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That as soon as the
said Company shall have completed two and a-half
continuous miles of said turnpike as aforesaid, the
President and Directors are hereby authorized and
empowered to erect a toll-gate, at which may be
charged and collected by a toll-gatherer such rates
of toll as are now allowed by law to be received
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Toll-gate.
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by the Monocacy and Woodsborough Turnpike
Company, in Frederick County, according to dis-
tance ; and the said Union Bridge Turnpike Com-
pany are hereby invested with all and singular
the rights and privileges for the purpose of en-
forcing the. collection of tolls herein authorized, as
are now or may be hereafter allowed by law to the
several Turnpike Companies of this State.
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Tolls.
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Sec. 10. And be it enacted. That the County
Commissioners of Carroll and Frederick Counties
respectively shall continue the allowance now
made for the repair of said road or roads, provided
the said Company may use said allowances in the
construction of the said Turnpike, until the same
shall be completed, and the said County Commis-
sioners of the said counties are hereby authorized,
subject to the provisions of Article three, Section
fifty-four of the Constitution of Maryland, in their
discretion to subscribe such number of shares as
they may deem expedient, not exceeding fifty,
shares for Carroll County, and not exceeding two
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Repair.
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