| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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 funeral, or from
any public worship, on days appointed for that purpose, or from
militia-men on days of training, or from voters on days of election,
attending the polls, going to or returning from the same. |
1818.
CHAP. 34.
Proviso. |
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 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. |
Privileges, rights
&c.
* Ch. 78.
† Dec. 1813, ch. 123. |
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. |
Corporation may
be stockholders. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said company
do not proceed
to carry on said work within two years after the passage of
this act, or shall not within five years thereafter complete the said
road, it shall be lawful for the legislature of this state to resume the
rights, privileges and franchises, by this act granted to the said
company. |
If road is not
commenced in
two years, state to
resume rights, &c. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the county court
of Washington
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 lands, or by taking
of stone, gravel, 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. |
Damages to be
estimated. |
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CHAP. XXXV.
An Act to enable Robert Gorsuch, to complete his Collections in
Baltimore
County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 257.
See 1816, ch. 72, and 1817, ch. 29. |
Passed Jan. 11, 1819. |
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CHAP. XXXVI.
An Act to authorise the Levy Court of Baltimore County to assess
and
levy on the assessable property of said County a sum
of money to
build a Bridge over the Great Falls of Gunpowder at
Meredith's
Ford in said County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol.
257. |
Passed Jan. 11, 1819. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly
of Maryland,
by the petition of sundry inhabitants of Baltimore county,
that a bridge is much wanting over the Great Falls of Gunpowder,
at Meredith's ford; and their prayer appearing reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Baltimore county be and they are hereby authorised
and directed, to assess and levy on the assessable property
of said county, such sum or sums of money, not exceeding two |
Levy authorised
for building
bridge. |
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