| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
Hammond, or to his order, so long as the children of the said Joseph
Stewart may remain with, and be supported by, the said Larkin
Hammond. |
1818.
CHAP. 101. |
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CHAP. CII.
An Act to incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike Road from the
Public Square in Hager's-Town, to intersect the Turnpike
Road
leading from Gettysburg, through Nicholson's
Gap, at the Pennsylvania
line. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 316. |
Passed Feb. 2, 1819. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a company shall be incorporated for making a turnpike road, beginning
at the public square in Hager's-town, and running past the
German Reformed Church in the nearest and best direction, to intersect
the turnpike road leading from Gettysburg, in Pennsylvania,
through Nicholson's Gap, in the South Mountain, to the division
line between the state of Maryland and the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania. |
Direction of road
to be made. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscription papers
shall be
opened for the capital stock of sixty thousand dollars, in three
thousand shares of twenty dollars each, under the direction of the
following commissioners, and at such times and places as they may
appoint, viz. Christopher Burkhart, Frederick Zeigler, John
Welty, Joseph Gabby, Otho Holland Williams, and Upton Lawrence,
or any one of them, and any other person which they, or
any of them, may in writing authorise to receive subscriptions. |
Subscriptions to
be opened. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any person subscribing
for stock
in said company, shall enter in writing the number of shares for
which he intends to subscribe opposite to his christian and surname,
and every subscription thus made on the subscription papers, shall
be held and taken as evidence of actual subscription, in every court
of law and equity in this state. |
Number of shares
authorised to be
entered opposite
names of persons
subscribing. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the aforesaid
three thousand
shares of stock shall have been subscribed for, the commissioners
shall give twenty days public notice in the newspapers printed
in Hager's-town, 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 May thereafter, and until a new
election; the elections for the officers of said institution, shall be
held on the first Monday in May in each and every year thereafter,
during the continuance of this act, during such hours of the
day, and at such place, as the president and managers may from
time to time appoint, giving at least twenty days pubic notice of
the same; and in all elections by stockholders, each share shall be
entitled to one vote; Provided always, that no person shall have
more
than twenty-five votes. |
When stock is
subscribed, institution
to be organized.
Proviso. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the stockholders
in said company
shall be and they are hereby created and erected into a body corporate,
by the name and style of The Hager's-Town and Antietam
Turnpike Company, and by the same name shall have perpetual succession,
and shall be capable of suing and being sued, or answering
and being answered, and of enlarging their stock by new subscriptions, |
Stockholders incorporated. |
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