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CHAP. 91. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
place as the president and managers shall appoint; and in all elections
by stockholders each share shall be entitled to one vote, but
no person or company shall have more than ten votes. |
| Stockholders incorporated. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the stockholders
in said company
shall be and are hereby created and erected into a body corporate
and politic, by the name and style of The Westminster and
Liberty-town Turnpike Company, and by the same name shall
have perpetual succession, and all the privileges and franchises incident
to a corporation, and shall be capable of suing and being
sued, answering and being answered, and of enlarging their stock
by new subscriptions if the same shall be found necessary. |
| Instalments. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums so subscribed
shall be
paid to the president and managers, aforesaid, in such sums and at
such times as they may appoint, giving one month's public notice
of the payment so required. |
Commissioners to
be appointed to
lay out road. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president and
managers be
and they are hereby authorised to appoint five commissioners, who,
or a majority of whom agreeing, shall lay out the road, beginning
at the turnpike near Westminster, in the straightest and best direction,
to William Duddero's on the old Liberty road, from thence
to the west end of Liberty town, having regard to mills and other
obstructions; and after having laid out and marked said road, they
shall make a plot of the same, specifying the courses and distances,
and return it to the clerk of Frederick county, to be recorded; and
the 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 Westminster and Liberty-town turnpike road,
according to the best of my skill and judgment, according to the
directions of an act of assembly, entitled, An act to incorporate a
company to make a turnpike road from the village of Liberty-town,
to intersect the Baltimore and Reister's-town turnpike at or
near the west end of Westminster-town; and I do further swear, or
affirm, that I am not interested in any land through which the said
road is likely to pass." |
Width. Bridges
may be erected.
Proviso. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall open the
said road from the turnpike near Westminster, according to the location
of the commissioners aforesaid, forty feet wide, at which at
least eighteen feet shall be an artificial road, composed of stone or
gravel, and erect and keep up bridges over the streams crossing
the same; and whenever five miles of said road shall be perfected,
said company shall be entitled to receive tolls; Provided, that
no toll
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 days appointed for that purpose, from militia
men on days of training, or from voters on days of election, attending
the polls, going to and returning from the same. |
Privileges, rights,
&c. of company.
* Ch. 78. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall be and are
hereby invested and clothed with all the privileges, rights, immunities
and advantages, which are held and possessed by the turnpike
company incorporated by an act passed at Novembers 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 entitled to the same tolls; and every clause |
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