| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
mark the Harper's Ferry turnpike road, according to the best of
my skill and judgment, and according to the directions contained
in this act; and I do further swear or affirm, that I am not interested
in any land through which said road is likely to pass." |
1815.
CHAP. 166. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall open said
road from the Frederick and Baltimore turnpike road, beginning
at the west end of Frederick-town, through New-town, Trap, to
Harper's ferry, on the Potomac river, 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 whenever ten 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.
By 1818, ch. 168, so much of the above
proviso as exempts from toll militia
men on days of training, and voters on days of election, &c. repealed. |
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 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. |
Corporations 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, liberties and franchises, granted by this act to
said company. |
If road is not completed
within ten
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 it shall and may
be lawful for
the managers of the turnpike road aforesaid, or a majority of them,
to propose a scheme or schemes of a lottery or lotteries, for raising
a sum of money not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, clear of all
expenses in drawing said lottery or lotteries, and to dispose of the
tickets thereof; provided that the said managers, or a majority of
them, shall, before the sale or disposal of any ticket or tickets in |
Lottery authorised
—Bond to be given. |
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