| 1816.
CHAP. 146.
Company incorporated. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
William Beanes, William Hill, Henry AShton, Trueman Tyler,
John Read Magruder, Richard W. West, Samuel Clagett, Reverdy
Johnson, John Hodges, of Thomas, Benjamin Brookes, Benjamin
Lee, George Wilkinson, Thomas R. Hodges, Gustavus R. Brown,
Thomas Sparrow, Basil Bowling, Philemon Chew, Henry Waring,
Edward Harwood, Samuel Sprigg, Robert W. Bowie, Francis M.
Hall, William D. Clagett, Jonathan N. Burch, William Wootten,
George Semmes, Clement Brook, William B. Beanes, William A.
Hall, James Somervell, John Contee, John Hill, Fielder Gantt,
Aloyeseus M. Keegan, Henry H. Chapman, John H. Brown,
Thomas Brook, Benjamin Young, Benjamin H. Clarke, Charles
H. W. Wharton, Frederick D. Stone and Augustus Taney, be and
they are hereby declared to be, a body politic and corporate, by
the name and style of The President and Council of the Philomanthanean
Society of Upper Marlborough, and by that name shall
have perpetual succession, and be capable in law to sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be
defended, in any court or elsewhere, and to make and use one
common seal, and the same to alter or renew at pleasure, and
severally to do and perform all things relative to the management
of said society. |
May hold property.
Proviso. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be lawful
for the president
and council of the said society, to take, receive and hold, for
the use of the said society, any property, real or personal; Provided,
the yearly value of all such property shall not exceed the
annual value of three thousand dollars. |
To make rules and
by-laws. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be lawful
for the said
society to make such rules and by-laws for the well governing the
affairs of said society, provided the same be not contrary to the
laws of this state or the United States. |
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Passed Jan. 29, 1817. |
CHAP. CXLVII.
An Act to lay out and make public a Road in Montgomery County.
Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 286.
A Supplement, 1818, ch. 14. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Montgomery county, that it would
greatly conduce to their convenience to have opened and made public
a road therein mentioned; and the prayer of the petitioners being
reasonable, therefore, |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
a road. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
William Carroll, William Calver, Edward Harding, Robert Edmondson
and Henry Harding (a), be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners, and they, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised
and empowered, to lay out and open, at the expense of the
petitioners, or any person or persons who may think proper to
contribute thereto, a road not exceeding thirty feet in width, leading
from Coalsville to intersect the main road from Brookville to
George-town and Washington; and the said road, when laid out
and opened, and the valuation herein after directed to be made shall
have taken place, and a plot thereof made out and returned to the
(a) Patrick Orme and William Pearce
appointed commissioners by 1818, ch.
14, in the place of William Carroll and Robert Edmondson. |
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