| 1816.
CHAP. 222. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
election, and to make such by laws as they shall deem necessary;
and on the first Monday of January in every year, or within ten
days thereafter, said company shall meet for the same purposes at
such place as the president and managers shall appoint, and in all
elections by stockholders each share shall be entitled to one vote,
but no person or company shall have more than ten 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 politic
and corporate, by the name and style of The Rock Run and Brick
Meeting-House 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 the stock
by new subscriptions if the same shall be found necessary. |
| Payments. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums so subscribed
shall be
paid to the president and managers aforesaid in such sums, and at
such times, as they may appoint, giving two months public notice
of the payment so 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 five commissioners, who,
or a majority of whom agreeing, shall lay out the road from the
site of Susquehanna Bridge, in Cecil county aforesaid, to the
mouth of Rock Run, from thence to a site eight perches south of the
Brick Meeting-House, thence till it intersects the Wilmington and
Newark turnpike road, on as straight a line between each of said
places as the nature of the ground and other circumstances will admit
of, having regard to hills and other obstructions; and after
having laid out and marked said road, they shall make one plot of the
same, specifying the courses and distances, and return the same to
the clerk of Cecil county court to be recorded; and the 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 Rock Run and Brick Meeting-House Turnpike
Road according to the best of my skill and judgment, and according
to the directions of an act of assembly, entitled, An act to incorporate
a company to make a turnpike road from the site of the
Susquehanna Bridge in Cecil county, to Rock Run, from thence to
a site eight perches south of the Brick Meeting-House, and from
thence until it intersects the Wilmington and Newark turnpike road;
and I do further swear, (or affirm) that I am not interested in any
land through which said road is likely to pass." |
Width of road.
Provisos. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall open said
road from the site of the Susquehanna Bridge to Rock Run, from
thence to the Brick Meeting-House, and from thence till it intersects
the Wilmington and Newark turnpike road, 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,
gravel, or other hard substance, and erect and keep up bridges over
the streams crossing the same; and whenever two miles of said road
shall be perfected, said company shall not be entitled to receive tolls;
Provided, that said company shall not be entitled to tolls after
the
year 1830, unless said twenty feet of width shall be composed of
stone, gravel, or other hard substances; Provided, that no tolls
shall
be demanded or taken from any person passing or repassing from |
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