| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
foot passengers, by good, substantial, and sufficient bridges, over
and
cross said canal, where it may intersect, cross or interfere with them. |
1817.
CHAP. 200. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president
and directors
aforesaid be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to
impose reasonable tolls on all persons navigating or transporting
any thing along and upon said canal; to use the water of said canal
for the purpose of erecting mills, manufactures or machinery of
any description, or for any purpose whatever; always first obtaining
the consent of all and every person interested in the lands upon
which any such mill, manufacture or machinery, may be; and the
privileges above granted in whole, or in part, to sell and dispose
of to any person or persons, bodies politic and corporate. |
Tolls mills, &c. |
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CHAP. CCI.
An Act authorising Marsham Parker late Sheriff, and Aquilla G.
Bowen, late Collector, of Calvert County, to complete
their Collections.
Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 135.
See 1816, ch. 223, and 1818, ch. 95, and ch. 126. |
Passed Feb. 14, 1818. |
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CHAP. CCII.
An Act to Incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike Road from
Boonsborough through Williams-Port, to intersect the
Turnpike
Road now making from Cumberland to the west bank of
the Conococheague.
Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 136. |
Passed Feb. 14, 1818. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a company be incorporated to make a turnpike road, beginning at
the termination of the Baltimore and Frederick turnpike road at
Boonsborough, and running thence in the nearest and most practicable
route through Williams Port, to intersect the turnpike road
now making from Cumberland to the west bank of the Conococheague. |
Direction of road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscription books
shall be opened
on the second Monday in March, for a capital stock of one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars, in shares of twenty dollars
each; forty thousand dollars of the same to be subscribed in the city
of Baltimore, under the direction of John E. Howard, William
Lorman and Jeremiah Sullivan, or any one of them; forty thousand
dollars at Frederick under the direction of John McPherson, George
Baer and Richard Potts; and forty thousand dollars at Williams-Port
under the direction of Jacob S. Towson, Edmund H. Turner
and Thomas Buchanan. |
Subscription
books to be opened. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when three thousand
shares of said
stock shall have been subscribed for, the commissioners shall give
twenty days public notice in two of the Baltimore, two of the Frederick,
and two of the Hager's-Town newspapers, of the time and
place appointed for the subscribers to meet and organize said institution,
and to choose, by a plurality of votes, by ballot, a president
and five managers, (three of whom shall be a quorum) a treasurer,
and such other officers as they shall deem necessary, for conducting
the affairs of said company until the first Monday in April in
thereafter, and until a new election, and to make such by-laws as
they shall deem necessary, and on the first Monday in April in
every year, or within ten days thereafter, for such purpose, and at
such place as the said president and managers shall appoint; and
in all elections by stockholders each share shall be entitled to one |
Subscribers to
meet to organize
company. |
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