| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
(any
two of whom shall be competent to act) shall be entitled to receive
for their services such compensation as the judges of Baltimore
county court may deem to be reasonable and proper, which said
compensation shall be paid by the petitioner, or his trustee, as the
said court may order and direct. |
1816.
CHAP. 221.
Commissioners
compensation. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all such parts
of the act passed
at November session eighteen hundred and five*, entitled, An act
for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, and the several supplements
thereto, as are inconsistent with, or repugnant to, the provisions
of this act, or any of them, be and the same are hereby repealed. |
Repeal.
* Ch. 110. |
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CHAP. CCXXII.
An Act to Incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike Road from the
site of the Susquehanna Bridge via the Brick
Meeting-House, to
the Wilmington and Newark Turnpike Road. Lib.
TH. No. 5,
fol. 381. |
Passed Feb. 4, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a company shall be incorporated to make a turnpike road from the
site of the Susquehanna Bridge, in Cecil county, in the nearest
and best direction to the mouth of Rock Run, and by the Brick
Meeting-House, and from thence till it intersects the Wilimington
and Newark turnpike road. |
Direction of road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscription books
shall be opened
on or before the tenth day of March next, at Rock Run, the
Brick Meeting-House, and Dezard's Inn, in the county aforesaid,
for a capital stock for said company of sixty thousand dollars, in
shares of twenty-five dollars each, under the direction of the following
commissioners, or any one of them, to wit: At Rock Run,
by Samuel Kerr, John Patterson and Thomas Williams; at the
Brick Meeting-House, by Elisha Kirk, Hugh Beard and William
Kirk; at Dezard's Inn, by James Ewing, William Garrett and
William Dezard; who, or a majority of whom, shall meet at such
time as they shall appoint, they giving thirty days previous notice
thereof in the Wilmington and Baltimore news-papers; and if the
subscriptions shall exceed the capital, the commissioners shall apportion
the same among the subscribers, by proportionate deductions,
so that the whole be reduced to the proper limit, but if the
said subscriptions shall not be filed upon the first day, the commissioners
aforesaid may adjourn from day to day; and at any
time after the first day if the subscriptions shall be complete, the
commissioners shall close the books, provided that there shall be
paid to the said commissioners, at the time of subscribing, one
dollar on each share which shall be subscribed. |
Subscription books
to be opened. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when one hundred
shares of said
stock shall have been subscribed, the commissioners shall give
twenty days public notice of the time and place appointed for the
subscribers to meet to organize said institution, and to choose, by
plurality of votes, by ballot, a president and eight managers, (five
of whom shall form a quorum,) a treasurer, and such other officers
as they shall deem necessary, to conduct the affairs of the company
until the first Monday in January thereafter, and until a new |
Meeting to organize
institution. |
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