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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CXXXVIII.
An Act to appoint Commissioners to grade, level, pave and repair,
the
Streets, Squares, Lanes and Alleys, in that part
of the Eastern
Precincts of Baltimore therein described, and
for other purposes.
Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 154.
A Supplement, 1814, ch. 95.
This act, with its supplements, repealed
by 1817, ch. 148, s. 8, reserving all
rights acquired thereunder. |
1811.
CHAP. 138.
Passed Dec. 27. |
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CHAP. CXXXIX.
An Act to incorporate a Company for building a Bridge over Choptank
River, at or near Denton Ferry. Lib.
TH. No. 3, fol. 162.
A Supplement, 1818, ch. 46. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1812. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Caroline county, that the convenience
of the public would be greatly promoted by erecting a bridge
over Choptank river, at or near Denton ferry, and that sundry
persons, by articles of voluntary association, have contracted and
agreed, each with the other, to erect a bridge at the place aforesaid,
and have subscribed and paid considerable sums of money
towards the same, and pray that a law may pass to incorporate
the said association; and it appearing reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the subscribers or proprietors of shares for building said bridge,
as well as those who may hereafter become stockholders, their
successors and assigns, shall be, and are hereby created and made
a corporation and body politic, by the name and style of The President
and Directors of the Denton Bridge Company, and by that
name shall be, and are hereby enabled and made capable either in
law or equity, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer
and be answered, defend and be defended, in any court or place
whatever; and also to make, have and use a common seal, and the
same to break, alter and renew at their pleasure; and also to ordain
and establish such by-laws, rules and regulations, as shall be
deemed necessary and proper for the government thereof, not inconsistent
with the laws of the United States, or of this state; and
generally to do and execute all and singular such acts, matters or
things, as to them shall or may appertain to do. |
Proprietors of
shares incorporated. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the capital stock
of said company
is hereby declared to be the sum of three thousand dollars, to
be divided into six hundred shares of five dollars each, and if the
whole of the shares have not been already subscribed, the president
and directors (who shall always be stockholders) first chosen
under the provisions of this act, shall and they are hereby authorised
and directed to open subscriptions for all the shares not heretofore
subscribed, on the same terms as the first subscription, on
giving thirty days notice of the time and place of receiving such
subscriptions. |
Amount of capital. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the building, superintendance
and management of said bridge, shall be conducted by a president
and six directors, in the manner hereinafter directed; and that
there shall be an election of seven directors, by ballot, at Denton,
on the first Monday of February next, and on the first Monday of
February in each and every year thereafter by the stockholders |
Election of directors
and president. |
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