| 1815.
CHAP. 119.
Vacancies. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of death,
resignation,
or incapacity of the said president, or any one of the directors, the
remaining directors shall choose a president or director, as the
case may be, from the stockholders, to supply the vacancy occasioned
thereby. |
Books to be returned
to commissioners
at Snow-Hill. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
at Berlin,
within three days after the subscription is closed at said place, shall
return the books, with all the money in hand, to the commissioners
at Snow Hill, which money, together with that received by the
commissioners at the last named place, shall be deposited in the
Farmers Bank of Somerset and Worcester until the election of
the president and directors of the said company. |
| Dividends. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president
and directors shall
declare a dividend of the profits of said company amongst the
stockholders once at least in each year, and oftener if they shall
think proper. |
Neglect to open
books. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if it shall so
happen that the
books shall not be opened at the places above named, or either of
them, on the day above prescribed, the commissioners, or a majority
of them, named for the place where such neglect shall happen,
may appoint some other day for opening the same, of which ten
days notice shall be given by advertisement set up at the most
public places in the county aforesaid. |
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Passed Jan. 23, 1816. |
CHAP. CXX.
An Act for draining a branch of Tuckahoe, known by the name of
Beaver Dam Branch, lying in Queen-Anne's County.
Lib. TH.
No. 4, fol. 612. |
Proprietors of
lands to elect directors. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the proprietors of the lands lying on
a branch of Tuckahoe, known by the name of Beaver Dam
Branch, extending from a place known by the name of Beaver
Pond, until it intersects the main ditch of Long Marsh, to meet on
the first Monday of April next, and on the first Monday of April,
or within ten days thereafter, in each and every year hereafter, at
a village known by the name of Beaver Dam Causeway, or at any
other place which a majority of the proprietors may appoint in
Queen-Anne's county, and for such proprietors, or a majority of
those who shall attend at the said meeting, then and there annually
to elect, by ballot, three of the said proprietors, for directors, who
when so elected and chosen are hereby authorised and empowered,
or any two of them, to make and open a drain or ditch down said
branch, from the said Beaver Ponds, until it shall intersect the
main ditch of Long Marsh aforesaid, in such direction and of such
width and depth as they, or a majority of them, may judge most
proper to carry off the water from said branch, and reduce the
same to dry land; and the power and authority of said directors,
so chosen, shall continue and be in force until a new election shall
take place. |
Costs to be paid by
proprietors. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the costs, charges
and expenses,
of cutting and opening said ditch or drain, shall be paid by the
respective proprietors of the same, each paying for the cutting and
opening the said drain or ditch through his own land, except
where it shall so happen that two or more of the said proprietors |
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