| 1818.
CHAP. 102. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
whenever they shall find the same necessary for the completion
of the said road. |
Subscriptions,
how to be paid. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums subscribed
by the stockholders
on subscription papers, as herein directed, shall be paid to
the president and managers, or to an officer appointed by them, in
such sums and at such times as they may appoint, provided two
months notice of the instalment required by previously given. |
Commissioners to
be appointed to
lay out road. |
7. 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 the public square in Hager's-town,
to intersect the turnpike authorised to be made by the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania from Gettysburg, in Adams county,
through Nicholson's Gap, to the division line between the state
of Maryland and Pennsylvania, 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, before some justice
of the peace: " I, A. B. do swear, or affirm, that I will lay
out and mark The Hager's-town and Antietam Turnpike Road,
according to the best of my skill and judgment, agreeably to the
direction of this act, and that I am not interested in any land
through which said road is likely to pass." |
| Width of road. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said
company shall open said
road from the public square in Hager's-town, according to the location
of the commissioners aforesaid, sixty feet wide, of which at
least twenty feet wide shall be an artificial road, composed of stone
or gravel, and erect and keep up bridges over streams crossing the
same. |
Rights and immunities
of company.
* Ch. 78. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said company shall
be and hereby
are invested and clothed with all the rights, immunities and advantages,
which are held and possessed by the turnpike company incorporated
by an act passed 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 entitled to the same tolls, as therein prescribed. |
Corporations may
subscribe. |
10. 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 said company. |
If work is not
completed in ten
years, state to resume
rights. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said company
do not proceed
to carry on the said work within three years after the passage
of this act, or shall not within ten 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. |
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Passed Feb. 3, 1819. |
CHAP. CIII.
An Act for the preservation of the Navigation of a Branch of Nanticoke
River, called North West Fork, in Dorchester County.
Lib.
TH. No. 6, fol. 318. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that wears
and hedges have of late been erected in and across the north west |
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