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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. LXIV.
An Act for the benefit of Charles Rice, of Washington County.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 290. A Private Act. |
1814.
CHAP. 64.
Passed Jan. 19, 1815. |
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CHAP. LXV.
An Additional Supplement to an act*, entitled, An act to appoint
Commissioners
to grade and level the Squares, Streets, Lanes and Alleys,
in the Precincts of Baltimore west of Jones's Falls.
Lib. TH.
No. 4, fol. 290.
This act, with its original, repealed by 1817, ch. 148, s. 8. |
Passed Jan. 19, 1815.
* Nov. 1809, ch. 131. |
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CHAP. LVI.
A Supplement to the act †, entitled, An Act to incorporate
a Company
for the purpose of building a Bridge over the River
Susquehanna,
near Rock Run. Lib. TH. no. 4, fol. 292. |
Passed Jan. 19, 1815.
† Nov. 1812, ch. 143. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the capital stock of said company shall be augmented to five hundred
thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each, as specified
in the original act to which this is a supplement, and the commissioners
named in the original act shall and they are hereby authorised
to continue their books open until the whole of the capital stock
shall be subscribed for. |
Capital augmented. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every subscriber
shall pay to the
commissioners who shall attend for the opening the books, at the time
of subscribing for the said stock, the sum of five dollars, one-fourth
part of which shall be in specie, on each share that shall be by
him subscribed, and the like sum of five dollars, one-fourth part
of which shall be in specie, shall be paid on each share that has
been already subscribed for, and the remaining forty-five dollars,
one-fourth part of which shall be in specie, on each share, shall be
paid by instalments as specified in the original act (a); and it shall
be the duty of John Stump, John Archer, John Quarles, John
Moores and Joshua Husband, for Harford county, and Samuel C.
Hall, George Davidson, George Kidd, Henry Sluyter, Joseph
Cowdon and Henry Broughton, for Cecil county, or any five or
more of them, to conduct every operation of the proposed institution,
until they shall be superseded by the appointment of directors.
(a) By 1817, ch. 153, in suits
to recover arrearages, may declare for money
had and received. |
Payments, how to
be made. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
the president and directors of the Susquehanna bridge and bank
company, to use all such surplus money that may or shall remain
in their hands, after the bridge shall be completed, and all such
monies or sums of money as shall be in their hands during the building
of said bridge, as a banking company. |
Surplus money
may be used. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all persons who
have or shall become
subscribers to said Susquehanna bridge and bank company,
their successors and assigns, shall be and are hereby made a corporation
and body politic, by the name and style of The President and
Directors of the Susquehanna Bridge and Bank Company, and by
that name shall be and are hereby made able and capable in law to
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered,
defend and be defended, in any court of record, or any other place
whatsoever, and also to make, have and use, a common seal, and |
Stockholders incorporated
—powers
and privileges. |
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