| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
after having laid out and marked said road, they shall make one
plot of the same, specifying the courses and distances, and return
the same to the clerk of Cecil county court to be recorded; and the
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 Susquehanna, Charles-town and Elkton
turnpike road, according to the best of my skill and judgment, and
according to the directions of any act of assembly, entitled, An act
to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from the lower
ferry on the river Susquehanna in Cecil county, through Charles-town,
and from thence till it intersects the Elkton and Christiana
turnpike road; and I do further swear, (of affirm,) that I am not
interested in any land through which said road is likely to pass." |
1815.
CHAP. 22. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall open
said road from the lower ferry on the river Susquehanna to Charles
town, and from thence till it intersects the Elkton and Christiana
turnpike road, 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, or other hard substance,
and erect and keep up bridges over the streams crossing the same;
and whenever two miles of the 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 in width shall be composed of
stone, gravel or other hard substance; Provided, that no toll shall
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 any 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 or returning from the same. |
Width of road.
Provisos. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said company shall
be and are
hereby invested and clothed will 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. |
Privileges, rights,
&c.
* 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 the said company. |
Bodies politic may
become stockholders. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if said company
do not proceed
to carry on said work within three years (a) 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.
(a) Further extended by 1816, ch. 132. |
Road not being
commenced within
three years,
right to revert to
state. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the county court
of Cecil shall
appoint five commissioners, who shall estimate the amount of damages |
Damages to be estimated. |
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