| 1818.
CHAP. 166.
Appeals from a
justice not to be
dismissed because
the same had not
been prayed to
court next after
rendition of judgment. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That from and after the
passage of
this act, no appeal, from the judgment of a justice of the peace to
prayed to the county court, shall be dismissed, because the same had not
been
prayed to the county court next after the rendition of such judgment,
unless the court shall be satisfied that the appellant had notice
of such judgment at least ten days before the sitting of the
said county court. |
Provisions of second
section to
commence on first
of June. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the provisions
of the second section
of this act shall not commence or take effect until the first day
of June next. |
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Passed Feb. 12, 1819. |
CHAP. CLXVII.
An Act for introducing a copious supply of Water into the Town of
Williamsport. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 377. |
| Company incorporated. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a company be and they are hereby incorporated and made a body
politic, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and that the said
body politic shall be known and distinguished by the appellation of
The President and Directors of the Williamsport Water Company,
and shall have full and ample power and authority to do, perform
and execute, all and every matter and thing which a similar corporation
may or rightfully can do, and shall have succession during
the continuation of this act, and to that end, for perpetuating
the said incorporate body, the heirs, devisees, representatives and
assignees, of the individual members thereof, shall be and are hereby
declared to be, members thereof, and by the name aforesaid may
sue and be sued, answer and be answered, in any court of law or
equity in this state or elsewhere. |
Capital—Subscriptions
to be opened.
Election of directors,
when to take
place. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the capital stock
of said corporation
shall not exceed ten thousand dollars, to be divided into five
hundred shares of twenty dollars each, and that subscriptions to
the said capital stock shall be opened in the town of Williamsport
under the direction of Jacob T. Towson, Michael A. Finley, Edward
G. Williams, Edmund H. Turner, and Milton H. Sackett, or
any two or more of them, on a day appointed by them for that
purpose, and notified in the papers published in Hagers-town, at
least three weeks previous thereto, who shall meet on the day appointed
for receiving subscriptions, at ten o'clock A. M. and continue
the same open until five o'clock P. M. and if the subscriptions
shall exceed the capital, the commissioners shall apportion
the same according to the subscribers, by proportionate deductions,
so that the whole be reduced to the proper limit; but if the said subscriptions
shall not be filed on the first day, the commissioners
aforesaid may adjourn from day to day until the whole stock is
subscribed, and those who have previously subscribed shall be
entitled to the stock in said company, from each of whom the said
commissioners shall exact the first instalment of two dollars and
fifty cents on each share so subscribed. |
Five directors to
be elected annually. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That within ten days
after closing the
subscriptions, two or more of the commissioners shall meet at Williamsport
for the purpose of holding an election for the president
and directors. |
No person or body
politic to have
more than 20 votes. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the stockholders
aforesaid, or
such as shall be present in person, or by proxy, shall elect, by ballot, |
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