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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no person shall
be eligible as a
trustee unless he be a stockholder; that the board of trustees shall,
from time to time, increase the number of shares, whenever in their
opinion it shall be beneficial and necessary to the institution, and
the said shares, and the holders thereof, shall be placed in the same
situation as the original. |
1810.
CHAP. 55.
No person to be
eligible as a trustee
unless he be a
stockholder. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That seven (a)
trustees and the president
shall form a quorum for ordinary business, and in case of
the absence of a president the trustees present shall appoint a president
pro tempore.
(a) Three trustees and the president,
by December 1813, ch. 18, shall form a
quorum. |
Seven to form a
quorum. |
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CHAP. LVI.
An Act to lay out and open the Road therein mentioned in Harford
County. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 490. |
Passed Dec. 23. |
WHEREAS it hath been represented to the general
assembly of
Maryland, at their last session, by the petition of sundry inhabitants
of Harford county, that a road if laid out and opened from or near
a hand-board near John Thomas's lane to Stephen Rigdon's lane,
would be, if opened, of public utility; and also a petition counter
thereto, and recommending that a road be laid out and opened from
near the said hand-board to Nathan Pyle's mill, all of which was
referred to this general assembly, and there being also other petitions
preferred to this general assembly, some praying for one of
the said roads, and some for the other; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John Moores, Thomas Amos and Thomas Hope, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or any two of them, are
hereby authorised to view the two aforesaid routes, and to lay out a
road from or near the hand-board near the lane of Jehu Thomas
aforesaid, to the lane of Stephen Rigdon, or to the mill of Nathan
Pyle, which ever they in their judgment may conceive most conducive
to the interest of the public, and least injurious to private property,
and cause the same to be surveyed, and a plot thereof returned
to the clerk's office of said county, there to be by him recorded;
and the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall also assess
the damages, if they in their judgment shall think any has been
sustained by individuals over whose land the said road may be laid,
and return thereof made to the levy court of said county, who are
hereby authorised and directed to levy a sum of money, such as
they in their judgment shall deem sufficient, for opening and clearing
the same, and appoint one or more overseers for that purpose. |
Commissioners appointed
to view
and lay out a road. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said levy court
shall also levy
such sum or sums of money as shall be adjudged by the said commissioners
to be due to individuals over whose land the said road
may be laid, and cause the same to be collected and paid as other
county charges are levied, collected and paid; and the said road,
when opened and cleared, shall be for ever hereafter deemed a public
highway, and shall be kept in repair as other roads are in said
county. |
Levy authorised
for compensating
individuals. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall be
allowed by the levy court of said county, two dollars per day for
each and every day that they shall attend in performing the duties
required by this act. |
Allowance to commissioners. |
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