| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
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. |
1815.
CHAP. 162. |
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. |
Payments, how to
be made. |
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 mouth of Monocacy, or some place near thereto, through
Montgomery county, in the straight and best direction, to the
Baltimore and Frederick-town turnpike road, at the Poplar Springs
in Anne-Arundel county, 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 the counties through
which it shall respectively pass, 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 Monocacy 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 mouth of Monocacy, or some place near thereto,
through Montgomery county, to intersect the Baltimore and Frederick-town
turnpike road, at the Poplar Springs in Anne-Arundel
county; and I do further swear, or affirm, that I am not interested
in any land through which the said road is likely to pass." |
Commissioners to
be appointed to
lay out road—their
oath. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall open the
said road from the mouth of Monocacy, or some place near thereto,
through Montgomery county, according to the location of the
commissioners aforesaid, fifty feet wide, of which at least twenty
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, 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. |
Width of road.
Proviso. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That 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 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 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. |
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