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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
matters and things as to them shall appertain, under the clauses of
this act and the several clauses of the act to which this is a supplement. |
1814.
CHAP. 21. |
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CHAP. XXII.
A Further 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. 252. |
Passed Dec. 21.
* Nov. 1812, ch. 133. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the president and managers of the Elk and Christiana Turnpike
Company shall, for the purpose of being enabled to complete the
Elk and Christiana turnpike road, have power to borrow money
and pledge the funds of the company to secure the payment of
such loan or loans. |
May borrow money
to complete
road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if two miles of
said turnpike
road are perfected, it shall be lawful for said company to receive
toll, and said company may put up in addition to the toll-gates
heretofore allowed by law, a toll-gate on the lane from Elk landing
to the post road, or collect the tolls on the same in any manner the
president and directors may think most convenient, but shall lay
no tolls thereat except on teams, wagons, carts or other carriages
of burthen. |
When two miles of
road are perfected
tolls may be received. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the
eleventh section
of the act to which this is a supplement, as exempts persons residing
within three miles of any turnpike gate from paying toll
more than once each way at each gate in twenty-four hours, shall
be and is hereby repealed. |
Part of eleventh
section of original
act repealed. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no person shall,
under penalty hte
of two dollars for each offence, obstruct the said road by feeding
horses on the part covered with stone or gravel, twenty feet wide
in the middle thereof, to be recovered before a justice of the peace
in the name of the state for the use of the informer. |
Obstructions. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, that the act †, entitled,
A supplement
to the act, entitled, An act to incorporate a company to make a
turnpike road from Elkton to Christiana Bridge, be and the same
is hereby repealed. |
Act repealed.
† Dec. 1813, ch. 79. |
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CHAP. XXIII.
An Act to incorporate the Franklin Manufacturing Company of
Maryland. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 253.
Supplement, 1816, ch. 73. |
Passed Jan. 23, 1815. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Nathaniel W. Appleton, Charles H. Appleton, George Williams,
Aaron R. Levering, John Levering, William Wilson, James Wilson
and Richard D. Mulliken, their associates, successors and assigns,
be and they are hereby created a corporation and body politic
by the name and style of The Franklin Manufacturing Company
of Maryland, and by that name may have perpetual succession,
and shall be able and capable in law to sue and be sued, implead
and be impleaded, answer and be answered, in any court of
law or equity, and to make and use a common seal, and the same
to change and alter at their pleasure, and to ordain and establish
such by-laws and regulations as shall be necessary or convenient |
Stockholders incorporated. |
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