| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
said water by the throwing any dead bodies or other impure substance
into the same, or by swimming, bathing, or washing therein,
the person or persons so offending shall forfeit and pay to the
said company a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for every
such offence or injury, to be recovered by such company, with
costs of suit, by action of debt, or action in the case, in any court
of judicature of this state, or by warrant before any magistrate
thereof, which action shall in every instance be considered as transitory
in its nature, and shall and may be triable in any county of
this state. |
1815.
CHAP. 90. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
lawful for the said
corporation to enter into any negociations on bills or notes, nor to
deal in exchange, discount, or other commercial or banking operations,
and dividends of the profits of the stock shall be annually
made, reserving only, at the discretion of the directors, such proportion
as they, or a majority of stockholders, shall deem sufficient
for maintaining and supporting the works necessary to promote or
attain the objects of this incorporation; and if the said corporation
shall not carry into effect the intentions of this act within five years
from the passage thereof, in that case all the powers vested in them
shall cease and determine. |
Dividends. |
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CHAP. XCI.
An Act to incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike Road from the
west end of the Village of Liberty-Town, to intersect
the Baltimore
and Reister's-Town Turnpike Road, at or near
the west end of the
Town of Westminster. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol.
547. |
Passed Jan. 15, 1816. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a company shall be incorporated to make a turnpike road from the
west end of the village of Liberty-town to intersect the Baltimore
and Reister's town turnpike road at or near the west end of the
town of Westminster. |
Company to be incorporated. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscription books
shall be opened
on or before the first Monday of January eighteen hundred and
nineteen, at Westminster, at Warner's tavern, on the Liberty road,
and in Liberty-town, for a capital stock for said company of seventy
thousand dollars, in twenty-eight hundred shares, twenty-five
dollars each, under the direction of the following commissioners,
or any one of them, to wit: At Westminster, by Washington
Vanbibber, Thomas Wells and Thomas Guest; at Warner's tavern,
by Alexander Warfield, Jacob Landis and Thomas Bond; at Liberty-town,
by Robert Cumming, John Duddero and Vachel Hammond. |
Subscription
books to be opened. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when six hundred
shares of said
stock shall have been subscribed, the commissioners shall give twenty
days public notice of the time and place appointed for the subscribers
to meet to organize said institution, and to choose by a plurality
of votes, by ballot, a president and eight managers, (five of
whom shall form a quorum,) a treasurer, and such other officers
as they shall deem necessary to conduct the affairs of the company,
until the first Monday in January thereafter, and until a new election,
and to make such by-laws as they shall deem necessary, and
on the first Monday in January in every year, or within ten days
thereafter, said company shall meet for the same purpose, at such |
Election of president
& managers. |
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