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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
and repaired as other public roads in said county, any law to
the contrary notwithstanding. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 49. |
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CHAP. L.
An Act to revive an Act, entitled, An act to incorporate a Company
to
make a Turnpike Road from the Town of Westminster, in
Frederick
County, through Harman's Gap, to Hagers-Town,
in Washington
County. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 382. |
Passed Dec. 5. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
an act passed at November session eighteen hundred and ten (a),
entitled, An act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike
road from the town of Westminster, in Frederick county,
through Harman's Gap to Hager's-Town, in Washington county,
be and the same is hereby revived and continued in force, during
the term and upon the conditions hereinafter specified, and all the
rights, powers and privileges, given, granted or conferred, by the
same, be and they are hereby renewed and revived, in their full
force and original extent, excepting only such as may be altered
or otherwise provided for by this act.
(a) November 1809, ch. 96. See December 1813, ch. 138. |
Act revived. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscription books
be opened on
the first Monday in March next, for the capital stock as originally
authorised by the before referred to act, hereby revived, in the
manner, upon the terms, and under the regulations and restrictions
as by the said act may be required and directed, at the following
places, and under the direction of the following persons: At
the
city of Baltimore, for ninety thousand dollars, under the direction
of Emanuel Kent, Hezekiah Clagett, Cornelius H. Gist, Ebenezer
Findley and William Hays; at Westminster, in Frederick county,
for twenty thousand dollars, under the direction of Issac Shriver,
David Fisher, John Wompler, James McHaffie and Jacob Sherman;
at Union-Town, in Frederick county, for twenty thousand
dollars, under the direction of David Kephart, Thomas Boyer,
Peter Bennedom, John Kurts and Jonas Crumbaker; at Millersburgh,
in Frederick county, for twenty thousand dollars, under the
direction of Joshua Delaplane, John Scott, Benjamin Biggs, John
Valentine and Frederick Eichelberger; at Mechanic's-town, in
Frederick county, for twenty thousand dollars, under the direction
of James Johnson, Jacob Weller, John Creager, junior, Christian
Harman and Anthony Miller; at Hager's-town, in Washington
county, for eighty thousand dollars, under the direction of William
Heyser, Upton Lawrence, Matthias Shafner, Henry Kealhoffer,
William Fitzhugh, David Schnebly, Martin Reidenour and
Henry Lewis, in the same manner and with the same powers as the
commissioners in the original act are authorised and empowered to do. |
Subscription
books to be opened. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said company
shall not
proceed to carry on the said work within five years from the passage
of this act, then the right of said company to such road, to
revert to the counties respectively. |
If work is not carried
on in five
years right to revert
to counties. |
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CHAP. LI.
An Act to lay out, open and amend, a Road in Cecil County.
Lib.
TH. No. 3, fol. 383. |
Passed Dec. 7. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Elk Neck in Cecil county, that |
Preamble. |
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