| DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 143. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
this kind, and what may be necessary to corporations of this kind,
and what may be necessary to the corporation herein constituted,
to enable them duly and fully in law, to execute all things touching
and concerning the design and intent of their said corporation, for
the benevolent succour and relief of such distressed and deserving
citizens as the regulations and by-laws shall authorise, and to effect
the end of their institution, requires. |
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Passed Jan. 29, 1814. |
CHAP. CXLIV.
An Act to incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike Road from Edward
H. Calvert's Old Mill in Prince-George's County to the
District
of Columbia. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 181.
See 1815, ch. 7. |
Company to be
incorporated. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a company shall be incorporated to make a turnpike road from Edward
H. Calvert's Old Mill in Prince-George's county, to the District
of Columbia.
2. This section not revived by
1815, ch. 7. |
When 100 shares
are subscribed, subscribers
to meet to
organize institution. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when one hundred
shares of said
stock shall have been subscribed, the commissioners shall give
twenty days public notice as aforesaid, of the time and place appointed
for the subscribers to meet, to organize said institution,
and to choose, by plurality of votes, by ballot, a president and
eight managers, (five of whom shall form a quorum,) a treasurer,
and such other officers as they shall deem necessary, to conduct the
affairs of the company until the first Monday in January thereafter,
and to make such by-laws as they shall deem necessary; and on
the first Monday in January in ever year thereafter, said company
shall meet for the same purposes, at such place as the president
and managers shall appoint; and in all elections by stockholders
each shall shall be entitled to one vote, but no person or company
shall have more than ten votes. |
| Stockholders incorporated. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the stockholders
in said company
shall be and they are hereby created and erected into a body politic
and corporate, by the name and style of The Piscataway and
Hynson Turnpike Company, and by the same name shall have
perpetual succession, and all the privileges and franchises incident
to a corporation, and shall be capable of suing, and being sued, answering
and being answered, and of enlarging their stock by new
subscriptions, if the same shall be found necessary. |
Payments, how to
be made. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sum so subscribed
shall be
paid to the president and managers aforesaid, in such sum and at
such times as the president and managers may appoint, giving
thirty days public notice of the payment so required.
6. See note to section 2. |
Powers and privileges
of the company. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
be and they
are hereby invested and clothed with all the privileges, rights, immunities
and advantages, which are held and possessed by the
turnpike company incorporated by an act passed at November session
eighteen hundred and twelve,* entitled, An act to incorporate
a company to make a turnpike road from the city of Baltimore to
the District of Columbia, to be governed by the same regulations
as are therein, and entitled to the same tolls; and every clause
and provision of said act, relative to the road therein proposed to |
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