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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
said road, they shall make two plots of the same, specifying the
courses and distances, and return one to each of the clerks of
Baltimore and Harford counties to be recorded; and said commissioners,
before they proceed to act, shall take the following oath,
or affirmation; " I, A. B. do swear, or affirm, that I will lay out
and mark the Baltimore and Havre-de-Grace turnpike road, according
to the best of my skill and judgment, and according to the
directions of an act of assembly, entitled, An act to incorporate a
company to make a turnpike road from the city of Baltimore to
Havre-de-Grace; and I do further swear, or affirm, that I am not
interested in any land through which said road is likely to
pass." |
DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 167. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall open said
road from the city of Baltimore to Havre-de-Grace, according to
the location of the commissioners aforesaid, sixty feet wide, of
which at least twenty feet shall be an artificial road, composed of
stone, gravel, earth or other materials, and erect and keep up
bridges over the streams crossing the same, and whenever five
miles of said road shall be perfected, said company shall be entitled
to receive tolls; Provided, that said company shall not be entitled
to tolls after the year eighteen hundred and thirty, unless
said twenty feet of width shall be composed of stone, gravel, or
other hard substance; Provided, that no toll be demanded or taken
from any person passing or repassing from one part of his farm to
another, or to or from any place of public worship or funeral, on
days appointed for that purpose, or from militia-men on days of
training, or from voters on days of election, attending the polls,
going to and returning from the same. |
Width of road.
Provisos. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said company shall
be and
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 District of Columbia
to the city of Baltimore, to be governed by the same regulations
as are therein prescribed, and be entitled to the same tolls;
and every clause and provision of said act relative to the road
therein proposed to be made, shall be in force as relates to the road
herein contemplated, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent
with this act. |
Privilege, rights,
immunities and
advantages.
* Ch. 78. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be lawful
for any corporation
or body politic in the United States to become stockholders
in said company. |
Corporations may
become stockholders. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said company
do not proceed
to carry on said work within two years after the passing of this
act, or shall not within ten years thereafter complete the said road,
it shall be lawful for the legislature of this state to resume the
rights, privileges, liberties and franchises, granted by this act to
said company; and if the said road shall pass over the bridge built
by Baltimore county over the Great Gunpowder Falls, then the
commissioners appointed by Baltimore county court shall ascertain
how much money has been expended by Baltimore county in
building the said bridge, and the amount so ascertained shall be
paid to said county in stock of said road. |
Road not being
commenced and
completed within
a limited time,
rights to revert to
state. |
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