| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall open said
road from the Baltimore and Frederick turnpike, according to the
location of the commissioners aforesaid, forty feet wide, of 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 when one half 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, or from
militia men on days of training, or from voters on days of election
attending the polls, going to, and returning from the same. |
1815.
CHAP. 100.
Width of road.
Proviso. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said company shall
be and are
hereby invested and clothes with 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, 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
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 two years 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 and franchises, granted by this act to said
company. |
Road not commenced
within
two years, rights
to revert to state. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the county courts
of Frederick
and Washington counties shall appoint five commissioners, who
shall estimate the amount of damages sustained by any person or
persons, by reason of said road passing through his, her or their
land, or by taking stone, gravel, or other materials, for the use
of said road, in cases where the parties cannot agree, which estimate
shall be final in determining such damages. |
Damages to be estimated. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases where
notice in a
public newspaper is required by the law to which this has a reference,
a paper in Frederick and Hager's-town shall be substituted
for George-town and Baltimore. |
Notice. |
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CHAP. CI.
An Act for the benefit of Jeremiah Rymen, alias Jeremiah Bean.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 584. |
Passed Jan. 17, 1816. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the board of examiners constituted by the act, entitled, An act to
establish pilots, and to regulate their fees, passed at November
session eighteen hundred and three*, be and they are hereby authorised
and directed to grant to Jeremiah Rymen, alias Jeremiah Bean,
of Saint-Mary's county, a free man of colour, a licence as a pilot,
provided they shall believe him of sufficient ability, skill and experience, |
To be licensed as
a pilot.
* Ch. 63. |
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