| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
company, from all persons travelling on the same with horses, cattle,
mules, wagons, carts or carriages. |
1816.
CHAP. 235. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the legislature
of Maryland
shall at any time after the year eighteen hundred and forty-five,
think proper to take possession of said road, for the purpose of
declaring it a free road, six persons shall be appointed by the governor
of this state, and six by the said company, who, or any
seven of whom, not having an interest in said road, shall estimate
the value of the property which said company have therein, and
whenever the amount so estimated shall be paid to the said company,
their right to toll on said road, and all their right, title and
interest therein, shall cease. |
State may take
possession of road,
&c. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
herein named
shall appoint five commissioners to locate and survey the said
turnpike road, and to exhibit a plot thereof at the time of opening
the books of subscription for the said capital stock of twenty-four
thousand dollars. |
Commissioners to
be appointed to locate
road. |
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CHAP. CCXXXVI.
An Act for the benefit of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the
City
of Annapolis. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 399. |
Passed Feb. 4, 1817. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
so much of the public ground as is now occupied by the methodist
meeting-house in the city of Annapolis, together with such addition
thereto as the governor and council may deem meet and sufficient
for the building, rebuilding, or repairing the meeting-house
aforesaid, be and the same is hereby relinquished to the trustees
of said church, and their successors, so long as they appropriate
it to the purposes expressed in this law, and none other. |
Ground relinquished
to trustees. |
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CHAP. CCXXXVII.
An Act to incorporate the Warren Manufacturing Company. Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 399. |
Passed Feb. 5, 1817. |
WHEREAS it is represented to the legislature, by
petition of S.
Smith and Buchanan, and others, that they have erected a cotton
factory on lands owned by them, on the Gunpowder Falls, in Baltimore
county, and that they are desirous of increasing their capital
stock, by voluntary subscriptions of such persons as may incline
to associate with them, to enable them to carry on more extensively
the manufacturing of cotton, and to establish and carry
on such other manufacturers and business as may be deemed useful,
and have prayed that they may be incorporated, in order to enable
them the more effectually to accomplish their purposes; therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
S. Smith and Buchanan, Andrew Clopper, Price and Watson,
George Warner, George Harryman, Micajah Merryman, and
James A. Buchanan and Co. and all such other persons as shall
associate with them by becoming stockholders in the manner hereinafter
provided, their successors and assigns, shall be, and they
are hereby made and constituted a body politic and corporate, by
the name, style and title, of The Warren Manufacturing Company,
and by the same name, style and title, shall have continual
succession, and shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead |
Stockholders incorporated. |
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