| 1816.
CHAP. 235.
Width of road.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall open said
road from the site of the Conowingo Bridge, in Cecil county aforesaid,
to the Pennsylvania line, to intersect a turnpike to be made
from Philadelphia via New-London Cross Roads to the said line,
according to the location of the commissioners aforesaid, sixty
feet wide, of which at least twenty feet, shall be artificial road,
composed of stone, gravel, or other hard substance; Provided,
that no tolls shall be demanded or taken from any person passing
or repassing from one part of his farm to another, or to or from
any place of public worship or funeral, on any days appointed for
that purpose, or from militia-men on days of training, or from
votes on days of election, attending the polls, going to, or returning
from the same. |
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, to be governed by the same regulations as
are herein prescribed, and be entitled to the same tolls, and every
clause and provision of said act relative to to the road therein proposed
to be made, shall be in full force as relates to the road herein
contemplated, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent
with this act. |
Corporations may
become stockholders. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be lawful
for any corporation
or body politic in the United States to become stockholders
in the said company. |
If work is not
commenced within
three years,
state to resume
rights. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if said company
do not proceed
to carry on said work within three years after the passing 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, liberties, privileges and franchises, granted by this act to
said company. |
| Damages to be ascertained. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the county court
of Cecil 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 stone,
gravel or earth, or other materials, for the use of said road, in
cases where the parties cannot agree, which estimate shall be final
in determining such damages. |
When road is perfected
two miles,
governor or apparent
persons to
examine the same,
&c. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That as soon as the
said president,
managers and company, shall have perfected their road to the distance
of two miles from the site of the Conowingo Bridge, they
shall give notice thereof to the governor of this state, who shall
thereupon forthwith nominate and appoint three skilful and judicious
persons to view and examine the same, and report to him,
in writing, whether the said road is so far executed in a masterly
and workmanlike manner, according to the true intent and meaning
of this act; and if their report shall be in the affirmative, then
the governor shall, by license under his hand, and the seal of the
state, permit and suffer the president, managers and company, to
erect such and so many gates or turnpikes upon or across the said
roads, as will be necessary to collect the tolls granted to the said |
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