|
LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
assignment of all the insolvent's property, so as to vest the title
to
the same in such trustee or trustees, without the necessity of such
insolvent executing a deed thereof; Provided, that nothing in this
act contained, shall be construed to extend to the applications now
pending for the benefit of said insolvent laws. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 77.
of insolvent's property.
Proviso. |
_____
|
|
CHAP. LXXVIII.
An Act to incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike Road from the
District of Columbia to the City of Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 3,
fol. 409.
A Supplement, Dec. 1813, ch. 77. |
Passed Dec. 17. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a company shall be incorporated for making a turnpike road from
the District of Columbia to the city of Baltimore; and for making
the said road a subscription shall be opened for a capital of one
hundred thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each, under
the direction of George Calvert, Richard Ross, Thomas Bowie
and William Fitzgerald, at Bladensburgh; Archibald Dorsey,
Richard G. Stockett, John S. Belt and Thomas Lee, jun. at
McCoy's tavern; and William Lorman, Henry Payson, George
Lindenberger and Jacob Giles Smith, in the city of Baltimore;
who shall for this purpose, on or before the third Monday of
January next, procure a book, and in it enter as follows, to wit:
" We whose names are hereunto subscribed, do promise to pay to
the president, managers and company, of the Washington and Baltimore
turnpike road, the sum of fifty dollars for each and every
share of stock in the said company set opposite our names, agreeably
to an act of assembly of the state of Maryland, entitled, An
act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from the
District of Columbia to the city of Baltimore. Witness our hands
this _____ day of _____ eighteen hundred and _____;" and shall give
notice in such newspapers of the cities of Baltimore and Washington,
as they may see proper, for at least one month, of the time
when, and the places where, the said book will be open to receive
subscriptions for the stock of the said company, at each of which
places two at least of the said persons named as managers to receive
subscriptions shall attend, and permit all persons to subscribe
in the said book, in person, or by attorney duly authorised; and
the said book shall be kept open four hours in each day for three
days; and if at the expiration of the said three first days, the
whole number of shares shall not be subscribed, the said commissioners
may adjourn from time to time until the whole number
shall be subscribed, of which adjournment public notice shall be
given in such newspapers as they shall judge proper, in the cities
of Baltimore and Washington; and every person subscribing for
the stock of the said company, shall pay to the attending commissioners
five dollars for every share so subscribed, out of which
shall be deducted the expense attending the taking of such subscriptions,
and all other incidental charges, and the residue shall
be deposited in one of the banks of Baltimore, for the use of the
said company, which the president and managers thereof may
draw out when the said company shall be organized. |
Subscription to be
opened—Capital. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when five hundred
shares of the
said stock shall be subscribed for, the before mentioned managers |
When 500 shares
subscribed, subscribers
to meet to |
|
 |
