| 1816.
CHAP. 131.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and on the first Monday in May in every year, or within two days
thereafter, for such purpose, and at such place 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. |
| Stockholders incorporated. |
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 Hager's-Town and Conococheague
Turnpike 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. |
Subscriptions, how
to be paid. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums so subscribed
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. |
Commissioners to
be appointed to
lay out road. |
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 agreeing, shall lay out the said road
in the nearest and best direction, from the market space in Hager's
Town, to intersect the Cumberland turnpike road on the
west bank of the Conococheague creek, and after having laid out
and marked said road, shall make out a plot of the same, specifying
the course and distance, and return the said plot to the president
and mangers; and said 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 Hager's-Town
and Conococheague turnpike road according to the best of my skill
and judgment, agreeably to the direction of this act; and I do further
swear, or affirm, that I am not interested in any land through
which the said road is likely to pass." |
| Width of road. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall open said
road from Hager's-Town, according to the location of the commissioners
aforesaid, sixty 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 streams crossing the same; and when the
said road and bridges shall be perfect, said company shall be entitled
to receive toll for one toll gate; Provided, that no toll be demanded
or taken from any person passing or repassing to or from
any 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, according the polls, going to, and returning from the same. |
Powers and privileges
of company.
* Ch. 78. |
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, and also with all the rights, privileges and
immunities, which are held and possessed by the Cumberland turnpike
road company, to be governed by the same regulations as
are therein prescribed, and entitled in the same tolls, and every
clause and provision in said acts relative to the road therein proposed |
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