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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
route from the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike road, through
the village of Strasburg, in Lancaster county, to the Susquehanna
bridge at McCall's ferry, and from thence to Baltimore, have
enacted as follows: |
DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 126. |
" Section 1. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly
met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Elliston
Perrott, Paul Beck, William Sansom, Jacob Downing, William
Davidson and James Taylor of the city of Philadelphia, Edward
Brien, John Neff, Nathaniel W. Sample, Rudolph Kegey, of
the county of Lancaster, in the state of Pennsylvania, and General
Charles Ridgely of Hampton, Benjamin Ellicott, James Carroll,
Luke Tiernan, Henry Payson, William Wilson, John McKim,
jun. Robert Miller, James Carey and Charles Jessop, of the city
if Baltimore, in the state of Maryland, be and they hereby are
appointed commissioners to do and perform the several things
herein after mentioned; that is to say, they shall, on or before the
first Monday in July next, procure one or more books, and in each
of them enter as follows: We whose names are hereunto subscribed,
do promise to pay to the president, managers and company, of
the Baltimore and Strasburg turnpike road, the sum of one hundred
dollars for every share of stock in the said company set opposite
to our respective names, in such manner and proportions,
and at such times, as shall be determined by the president and
managers of the said company, in pursuance of an act of the general
assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, confirmed by
the general assembly of the state of Maryland, entitled, An act to
enable the governor of this commonwealth to incorporate a company
for making an artificial road by the best and nearest route from
the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike road through the village
of Strasburg to the Susquehanna bridge at McCall's ferry, and
thence to the city of Baltimore. Witness our hands the _____
day of _____, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and _____; and shall thereupon give notice in two or more of the
public papers printed in the city of Philadelphia, two in the city
of Baltimore, and two in the borough of Lancaster, for one calendar
month at least, of the times and places when and where the
said books shall be open to receive subscriptions for the stock of
the said company, which is hereby declared to be the sum of two
hundred thousand dollars, divided into two thousand shares of one
hundred dollars each, at which respective times and places some
one or more of the said commissioners shall attend, and shall permit
all persons of lawful age, bodies corporate and politic, who
shall offer to subscribe in the said books in their own name, or
names of any other persons, who shall duly authorise the same,
for any number of shares in the said stock; and the said books
shall be kept open respectively for the purpose aforesaid, by adjournment
from time to time, and may be transferred from place to
place until the whole number of shares shall be subscribed, of
which adjournments and transfer the commissioners aforesaid shall
give such public notice as the occasion may require; Provided always,
that every person offering to subscribe in the books in
his own name or any other name, shall previously pay to the attending
commissioners the sum of five dollars for every share to be |
Commissioners appointed.
Subscription
books to
be opened.
Proviso. |
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