| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
or any two of them; and for ten thousand dollars at Frederick-town,
under the direction of Abraham Shriver, George Baer and Michael
Hauser, or any two of them; and for ten thousand dollars at Cumberland,
in Allegany county, under the direction of William
McMahon, Thomas J. Perry and Benjamin Tomlinson, or any of
them; who are hereby appointed commissioners for the purposes
herein mentioned. |
1816.
CHAP. 105. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when fifteen hundred
shares of
said stock shall have been subscribed for, the commissioners shall
give twenty days public notice thereof, in one of the news-papers
printed in Hager's-town, one in Cumberland, one in Frederick-town,
and one in Baltimore, of the time and place appointed for
the subscribers to meet to organize said institution, and to choose
by a plurality of votes, by ballot, a president and five managers,
(three of whom shall be a quorum,) a treasurer, and such other officers
as they shall deem necessary for conducting the affairs of
said company until the first Monday in April in every year, or
within ten days thereafter, for such purposes, and at such places
as the president and managers shall appoint; and in all elections
by stockholders each share shall be entitled to one vote; Provided
always, that no person shall have more than twenty five votes. |
Subscribers to
meet to organize
company.
Proviso. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the stockholders
in said company
shall be and they are hereby created and erected into a body corporate
by the name and style of The William's-Port and Boonsborough
Turnpike Company, and by the same name shall have
perpetual succession, and all the privileges 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. |
Stockholders incorporated. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums so subscribed
for shall
be paid to the president and managers of the company, in such sums
and at such times as they may appoint, giving two months public
notice of the payment required. |
Payments, how to
be made. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president and
managers be
and they are hereby authorised to appoint three commissioners,
who, or a majority of whom, shall lay out the said road in the
nearest and most practicable direction from the termination of the
Baltimore and Frederick turnpike road, at Boonsborough, to the
Conococheague creek at William's Port, and after having laid out
and marked the same, shall make out a plot thereof, specifying the
course and distance, and return the said plot to the said president
and managers; and said commissioners, before they proceed to act,
shall take the following oath, or affirmation: " I, A. B. do solemnly
swear, or affirm, that I will lay out and mark the William's-Port
and Boonsborough turnpike road according to the best of my skill
and judgment, agreeably to the direction of this act; and I do
further swear, of affirm, that I am not interested in any land
through which the said road may pass." |
Commissioners to
be appointed to
lay out road. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall open the
said road from Boonsborough to the Conococheague creek at William's-Port,
according to the location of the commissioners aforesaid,
sixty feet wide, of which at least twenty feet shall be an artificial |
Road to be sixty
feet wide. |
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