| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
to be made, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent
with this act. |
1816.
CHAP. 131. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
any corporation or body politic in the United States to become stockholders
in the said company. |
Corporation may
be stockholders. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if said company
do not proceed
to carry on said work within three years after the passage 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 and franchises, by this act granted to the
said company. |
If road is not completed
in ten years
state to resume
rights, &c. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the county court
of Washington
county 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
of stone, gravel, or other materials, for the use of the said road,
in cases where the parties cannot agree, which estimate shall be
final in determining such damages. |
Damages to be estimated. |
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CHAP. CXXXII.
A Supplement to an act*, entitled, An act to Incorporate a Company
to make a Turnpike Road from the River Susquehanna,
through
Charles-Town, to the Elkton and Christiana Turnpike.
Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 272. |
Passed Jan. 27, 1817.
* 1815, ch. 22. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the time given by the original act to which this is a supplement for
the commencement of the said road, be and the same is hereby extended
to the period of four years from and after the passage of this
act. |
Time for commencing
road extended. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the said company
shall have
completed two miles of any part of said road, or more, it shall and
may be lawful for them to shut up that part of the present public
road which leads from North East towards the Principio Creek,
and runs north of Charles-town, any thing in the original act to
the contrary notwithstanding, and the same shall be then shut and
made private for ever thereafter. |
Company authorised
to shut up
part of a certain
road. |
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CHAP. CXXXIII.
An Act authorising the drawing of a Lottery for the purposes therein
mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 273. |
Passed Jan. 27, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful Dr. James Scanlan, Peregrine Biddle,
George Beaston, George Ford, William Ward and Edward
H. Veazey, or a majority of them, to propose a scheme of a lottery
for raising a sum of money not exceeding twenty thousand
dollars, and sell and dispose of the tickets in said lottery, and to
draw the same in any part of this state, either in their own proper
persons, or by an agent of agents duly authorised and appointed
by them; provided, that the said Dr. James Scanlan, Peregrine
Biddle, George Beaston, George Ford, William Ward and Edward
H. Veazey, or a majority of them, that undertake to act under
this law, shall before the sale or disposal of any ticket or tickets in
said lottery, give their bond to the state of Maryland, in the penalty
of forty thousand dollars, conditioned that they will well and |
Lottery authorised
—Managers to
give bond. |
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