| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
at an enormous expense to the citizens of said county; therefore, |
1815.
CHAP. 122. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the president and directors of the
Choptank bridge company, to contract with the levy court of Caroline
county for the passage of the citizens of said county over said
bridge, for a sum of money not exceeding three hundred dollars
annually, to be levied on the assessable property of said county,
and collected as other county charges, and paid over by the collector
of said county, to the president and directors as aforesaid, or
to any person authorised by them to receive the same. |
May contract with
levy court. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the president
and directors
as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect to contract with the said
levy court at their first meeting after the passage of this law, or at
their first meeting in any year thereafter, then and in that case so
much of the public road leading from Hunting Creek to the said
Choptank Bridge, commonly called and known by the name of
Dover Causeway, shall be vacated and discontinued, and not considered
as a part of a public road in Caroline county; Provided
nevertheless, that the said president and directors, on refusing or
neglecting to contract with the levy court of Caroline county as
aforesaid, shall have full power, and they are hereby authorised, to
repair and keep up the said causeway as a public highway at the
expense of the said company, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Neglect to contract.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. CXXIII.
An Act Supplementary to an act* to incorporate a Company for the
purpose of building a Bridge over the River Susquehanna.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 618. |
Passed Jan. 23, 1816.
* 1808, ch. 11. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Aaron Quinby, Phineas Ash, John Kinsey, Josiah Kirk, David
Dickey, Jacob Job, James Jackson, John Frey, James L. Porter,
George McCausland, Thomas A. Hays, William Smithson, John
Davis and Samuel Sterrett, or any one of them, may open, or
cause to be opened, at such place or places as they shall deem proper,
or any one of them, books for receiving and entering subscriptions
for raising a capital stock not exceeding one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each, for the
purpose of building a bridge over the ridge Susquehanna, as specified
in the original law to which this is a supplement, passed at November
session eighteen hundred and eight, chapter one hundred
and eleven. |
Books may be
opened. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever one thousand
shares
of said stock shall be subscribed for, the company shall be incorporated
as provided for in the aforesaid act. |
When 1000 shares
are subscribed
company incorporated. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the meeting of
the stockholders
shall be at such place as the commissioners for taking the stock, or a
majority of them, shall direct, giving notice as provided for in said
act, for electing directors, and their annual meetings thereafter for
electing directors shall be at such place as the president and directors
shall appoint which directors so elected may reside in any
place. |
Meeting of stockholders. |
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