| 1817.
CHAP. 202.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
vote; Provided always, that no person shall have more than twenty-five
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,
by the name and style of The Williams-Port 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 their stock by new subscriptions if the same shall be
found necessary. |
Payments, how
to be made. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums so subscribed
shall be paid
to the president and managers of the company, in such sums and at
such times, as they may appoint, giving two months public notice
of the payment required. |
Commissioners to
be appointed to
open road. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president and
managers be, and
they are hereby authorised, to appoint three commissioners, who or
a majority of whom agreeing, shall lay out the said road in the
nearest and best direction, from Boonsborough through Williams-Port,
to intersect the Cumberland turnpike road on the west side
of Conococheague creek, and after having laid out and marked said
road, shall make out a plot of the same, specifying the course and
distance, and return the said plot to the president and managers;
and 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 Williams-Port turnpike road according
to the best of my skill and judgment, agreeably to the direction of
this act, and I do further swear, or affirm, that I am not interested
in any land through which the said road is likely to pass. |
Width of road
—Tolls.
Proviso. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall open said
road from Boonsborough 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 or gravel, and erect and keep
up bridges over streams crossing the same; and when the said road
and bridges shall be perfect, said company shall be entitled to receive
the same tolls which are allowed by law to the Washington
and Baltimore turnpike company; Provided, that no toll be demanded
or taken from any person passing or repassing to or from any
public worship or funeral, on days appointed for that purpose, or
from militia men on days of training, or from votes on days of election,
at ending the polls, going to or returning from the same. |
Privileges, rights,
&c.
* Ch. 72.
† 1818, ch. 79. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said company shall
be and are
hereby invested and clothes with all the privileges, rights, immunities
and advantages, which are held and possessed by the 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,
and also with all the rights, privileges and immunities, held and
possessed by the Cumberland turnpike road company†, to be governed
by the same regulations as are therein prescribed, and entitled
to the same tolls, and every clause and provision in said acts relative
to the road therein proposed to be made, so far as the same
are applicable and not inconsistent with this act. |
Corporations may
subscribe. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for any
corporation or body politic in the United States to become stockholders
in the said company. |
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