| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
answered, and of enlarging their stock by new subscriptions, if
the same shall be found necessary. |
1814.
CHAP. 48. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president and
directors shall
appoint a treasurer, and the sums subscribed shall be paid to the
treasurer, in such sums and at such times as the president and
managers shall appoint, they giving two months public notice of
the payment so required, and the stock of said company shall be
transferred according to such rules as the stockholders may adopt. |
Treasurer to be
appointed. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall have power
to open and make a road from the city of Baltimore, to the place
where the said road shall branch or separate, and from said place
with each of said branches to the termination thereof, and also from
Belle-Air to the place contemplated to build a bridge at Rough Island
or Conewango, not exceeding sixty feet in width, of which
twenty feet at least shall be an artificial road, composed of stone,
gravel, earth or other materials, and erect and keep up bridges
over the streams crossing the same, and said road shall be so nearly
level in its progress, that it will in no place rise or fall more
than will form an angle of four degrees with a horizontal line; and
whenever five miles of said road shall be perfected, said company
shall be entitled to receive rolls for such distance, as they shall
progress they shall be entitled to receive tolls for the distance for
which the road shall be perfected; Provided, that if said company
shall not before the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one make
ten miles, or before the year eighteen hundred and thirty-one make
twenty miles of said roads twenty feet in width of stone, gravel or
other hard substance, it shall be lawful for the legislature of this
state to resume the rights, liberties, privileges and franchises,
granted by this act to the said company.
8. This section repealed by 1818,
ch. 50. |
Width of road—
bedding.
Proviso. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be lawful
for any corporation
or body politic in the United States to become stockholders
in said company.
See 1816, ch. 190.
10. This section repealed by
1816, ch. 176. |
Corporations may
become stockholders. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said company shall
have power,
if in their opinion any improvement can be made in the location of
said road or roads, which they shall determine to make turnpike
roads, either by straightening the same or placing the road on more
favourable ground, to alter or change the location of the same,
provided that one branch shall pass through Belle-Air, and the
place where said roads branch or separate as aforesaid, shall remain
the same; and if any person over whose ground the road shall
pass, where such alteration in the location will made, shall claim
damages arising from such change in the location, and the parties
cannot agree, the judges of the county court of the county in which
such road shall lie, shall appoint five persons who shall estimate
the damages if any there be, which such person shall sustain by
altering the location, and the said company shall pay the amount
to the person entitled thereto; and said company shall cause a plot
of the road so as altered, to be made out and filed in the office of
the county courts of said counties; and said company shall cause
mile-stones to be put up on such part of the said road as they shall
subject to toll. |
Company may alter
location of
road. |
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