| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
and upon such bond, or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be
instituted for any breach or noncompliance with the condition thereof. |
1815.
CHAP. 6. |
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CHAP. VII.
An Act to revive and amend an act*, entitled, 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. 405. |
Passed Dec. 15.
* Dec. 1813, ch. 144. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the act, entitled, 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, except the second, sixth and
ninth sections thereof, be and the same is hereby revived and made
perpetual. |
Act revived. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscriptions books
shall be opened
at Upper Marlborough, in Prince-George's county, for a capital
stock for said company of twelve thousand dollars, in six hundred
shares of twenty dollars each, under the direction of Edward H.
Calvert, Robert Sewall, Benjamin Oden, Richard W. West,
Edmund Key, William Hebb and Robert Bowie, or a majority of
them. |
Subscription books
to be opened. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall open the said
road from Edward H. Calvert's old mill to the District of Columbia,
as nearly straight as the nature of the country will admit,
(having regard to the hills and other obstructions,) thirty feet wide,
and shall cause twenty feet in width to be bedded with stone or
gravel, and erect and keep up bridges over the streams crossing
the same; and whenever five miles of the said road shall be perfected,
said company shall be entitled to receive tolls for travelling on the
part of the said road so perfected. |
Width and direction
of road. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said company
shall not
proceed to carry on said work within three years after the passage
of this act, or shall not within eight years thereafter complete the
said road, it shall be lawful for the state to resume the rights, liberties,
privileges and franchises, granted by this act and the act
hereby revived. |
Road not being
commenced within
three years right to
revert to state. |
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CHAP. VIII.
An Act authorising a Lottery for raising a sum of money for the
purpose
of purchasing a Lot of Ground, and erecting thereon
a Building
for Divine Worship in Frederick County. Lib.
TH. No. 4,
fol. 406. |
Passed Dec. 15. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Benjamin Biggs, Joshua Delaplane, John Kinsor, Jacob Biggs,
James Cooper and John Fleming, or a majority of them, be and
they are hereby authorised to propose a scheme of a lottery or lotteries,
to raise a sum of money not exceeding five thousand dollars,
to be appropriated for the purchase of a lot of ground, and erecting
thereon a building for divine worship, in Frederick county,
and that they, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised
to sell and dispose of tickets in the said lottery or lotteries;
provided the said Benjamin Biggs, Joshua Delaplane, John Kinsor,
Jacob Biggs, James Cooper and John Fleming, or a majority |
Lottery authorised
—Bond be given. |
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