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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
to shut up all that part of the old road leading from Bladensburgh
to Baltimore, which passes through the land of Colonel Thomas
Bowie, as soon as the turnpike road contiguous to it shall have
been completed according to the provisions of the act of assembly
to which this is a supplement. |
DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 77. |
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CHAP. LXXVIII.
An Act for the benefit of Thomas Batt, of Anne-Arundel County.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 88. |
Passed Jan. 19, 1814. |
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CHAP. LXXIX.
A Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act to incorporate a Company
to make a Turnpike Road from Elkton to Christiana Bridge.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 88.
This act repealed by 1814, ch. 22. |
Passed Jan. 19, 1814.
* Nov. 1812, ch. 133. |
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CHAP. LXXX.
An Act authorising the Sale of the Real Estate of Ruth Howard, deceased,
Wife of Thomas W. Howard, and for other purposes.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 89. A Private Act.
A Supplement, ch. 89. |
Passed Jan. 17, 1814. |
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CHAP. LXXXI.
An Act to establish a Bank, and incorporate a Company, under the
name of The Bank of Caroline.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 90.
Supplements, 1814, ch. 63, and 1817, ch. 68. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1814. |
WHEREAS a number of the citizens of Caroline county
have prayed
that a bank may be established in the village of Denton, in said
county; therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a bank to be called and known by the name of The Bank of Caroline,
shall be established in the village of Denton, in Caroline county. |
Bank to be established. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the capital stock
of this bank
shall consist of two hundred thousand dollars, money of the United
States, divided into eight thousand shares of twenty-five dollars
each. |
Capital—Shares. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That books for the subscription
of
the said stock shall be opened at Denton, and at such other places
in the county as may be deemed advisable by the commissioners
appointed for that purpose, and by them notified in the most public
places in the county, at least four weeks previous thereto; and the
commissioners who shall meet on the day so appointed for receiving
the said subscriptions, shall cause the said books to be opened at
the place or places agreed upon, at ten o'clock in the morning, and
continue the same open until five o'clock in the afternoon, and if
the subscriptions shall exceed the number of eight thousand, then
the said commissioners are hereby authorised and directed, so to
apportion the shares subscribed among the several subscribers, by
proportionate reduction, as may reduce the whole to the number to
be subscribed for, but if the said subscriptions shall not be filled up
on the first day, the said commissioners shall have power to adjourn
from day to day, until the whole number of shares shall be subscribed
for, and at any time after the first day, when the subscriptions |
Subscription
books to be opened. |
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