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CHAP. 70. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
by an act of the general assembly of this state, to loan
to this state any sum of money not exceeding the amount of the
capital actually paid in, any thing in the charter of such bank, or
in any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
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Passed Jan. 23, 1815. |
CHAP. LXXI.
An Act to incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike Road from the
Square in the Town of Boonsborough, in Washington County,
to
Swearingen's Ferry on the Potomac River. Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol.
311. |
| Direction of road. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a company be incorporated for making a turnpike road in Washington
county, from the square in the town of Boonsborough, to
Swearingen's ferry, on the Potomac river. |
Capital—Books to
be opened, &c.
Proviso. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscription books
be opened for
a capital stock of eighty thousand dollars, in shares of twenty
dollars each, at Boonsborough, under the direction of Henry
Locker junior, Ezra Slifer and John Adams; at Sharpsburgh, in
Washington county, under the direction of George Smith, Jacob
Mumma and George Hedrick; at Swearingen's ferry, under the direction
of John Blackford, John Brien and Thomas Buchanan; at
Middletown, in Frederick county, under the direction of Henry
Stemple, Thomas Powell and John Stemple; at Frederick-town,
under the direction of John McPherson, George Baer and Joseph
Swearingen; at Baltimore under the direction of Francis Foreman,
John Vanlear and James Caldwell, who are hereby appointed
commissioners for the purpose aforesaid, who shall on or before
the first Monday in March next, procure books, and in each enter
as follows, to wit: " We whose names are hereunto subscribed, do
promise to pay to the president, managers and company, of the
Boonsborough turnpike road company, the sum of _____ dollars for
every share of stock in the said company set opposite to our respective
names. Witness our hands, this _____ day of _____, eighteen
hundred and _____;" and shall give notice in one of the public
newspapers in the city of Baltimore, one in Frederick-town, and
one in Hager's Town, for one month at least, of the times when,
and places where, the said books will be open to receive subscriptions
of stock for the said company; at which times and places at
least two of the said respective commissioners shall attend, and
shall permit and suffer all persons who shall offer to subscribe in
person, or by attorney duly authorised, in the said books, which
shall be kept open for that purpose at least four hours every day,
Sundays excepted, for the space of three days, if three days shall
be necessary; and if at the expiration of the said three first days,
the said books shall not have, for the said road, the full number
subscribed, the said commissioners may adjourn from time to time
until the number of shares shall be respectively subscribed, of
which adjournment public notice shall be given in the papers aforesaid;
and when the said subscriptions in the said books shall
amount to the said respective numbers aforesaid the same shall be
closed; Provided always, that every person offering to subscribe
in
the said books in his own name, or in the name of any other person,
shall, upon subscribing, pay to the attending commissioners
one dollar for every share to be subscribed, out of which shall be |
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