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Appointed
Commission-
ers to build
bridge.
Open books
to raise sub-
scriptions.
Time books
shall be kept.
open.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 324.
AN ACT to incorporate a company to construct a
bridge across the Severn River, at Annapolis, in
Anne Arundel county.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by} by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That James S. Robinson, Theodore Corner,
Samuel T. Redgrave, Thomas C. Boone, Samuel
Ridout, John B. Nicols, John T. E. Hyde, senior,.
James W. Hunter, Thomas Ireland, James E. Tate
and James Revell, be and they are hereby appointed
Commissioners for the purpose hereinafter men-
tioned, with power to supply any vacancy that may
occur in their body by death, resignation or other-
wise: that is to say, that they, or a majority of them,
after giving at least fifteen days' notice, by publication in such newspaper and by such other mode as
in their discretion shall deem most conducive to the
interest of their enterprise, shall or may open a book
or books at such place or places as they may desig-
nate, for raising subscrlptions to the capital stock to
construct a bridge across the Severn River, at Annapolis, in Anne Arundel county, in the State of
Maryland, and thereupon they or any number of their
Board, not less than three, shall proceed to receive
subscriptions for the capital stock of the company
by this Act incorporated, which shall not exceed the
Burn of fifty thousand dollars, to he divided into-
shares of twenty-five dollars each; and the said Looks
shall be kept open for three consecutive days, and
as much longer as the said commissioners or a ma-
jority of them deem prudent; and in case of an
excess of subscription, the commissioners shall deduct
from the largest in such manner that no one shall
be) be reduced while any remains larger; and if the
whole number of shares shall not have been sub-
scribed for within the time the said books may he
kept open for that purpose, then the said commis-
sioners shall and may proceed, to again open a book
or books at such other time or times, and place or
places as they may deem proper, for the purpose of
receiving subscriptions for the remaining number of
shares of the capital stock of the said company, in the
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