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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
resign, or refuse to act, the justices of the levy court, or such person
as they may appoint for that purpose, and the companies respectively,
shall forthwith proceed to fill up such vacancies. |
1804.
CHAP. 51. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That certificates of
shares, to the
amount of the valuations aforesaid for each respective road, shall
be made out by the respective companies in the name of the levy
court of Baltimore county, and delivered to the said court, and all
dividends or profits arising on said shares shall be paid to the levy
court of Baltimore county, to be appropriated by the said levy court
in such manner, to the use of the said county, as they may think proper. |
Certificates of the
amount of valuations
to be made
out. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
shall have all the
privileges of voting at elections as any individual or company holding
a like number of shares of the said stock would have, |
Levy court entitled
to vote. |
15. AND, whereas the road leading towards
Frederick-town was
laid out and confirmed by the commissioners of review only so far
as the line of Baltimore county, and the road from the end of the
aforesaid road through Anne-Arundel county to the Anne-Arundel
county line, on a direction towards Frederick-town, was laid out by
commissioners appointed by law for that purpose, and from thence
through part of Baltimore county, and partly through Frederick
county, to Frederick-town, was laid out by commissioners appointed
by law for that purpose, which said roads have been opened
and put into their present state of improvement at the expense of
the said counties: And whereas it is reasonable and just that the
said counties should be paid the value of the said improvements;
therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That the present rights of the said
counties to the said road, and improvements made thereon, shall be
ascertained in the same manner as is herein before directed for
ascertaining the value of the turnpike roads in Baltimore county,
and the president, managers and company, of the Baltimore and
Frederick-town turnpike road, shall pay the amount of the said valuations
to the levy court of each respective county, or their orders,
on or before the end of two years from the time the said respective
valuation or valuations shall be made and returned, and upon such
valuation or valuations being made and returned to the said president
and managers, and the respective levy courts aforesaid, the
said respective parts of the said road shall thereupon be vested in
the said president, managers and company, of the Baltimore and
Frederick-town turnpike road, during the continuance of this act
of incorporation. |
Rights of counties
to road to be
ascertained. |
16. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases where
stone, gravel,
earth or sand, not already quarried or dug for the use of the owner,
or for sale, shall be necessary for making or repairing either
of the said turnpike roads, the president and managers of the company,
or a majority of them, or any person authorised by them,
may agree with the owner or owners of said materials for the purchase
of the same, or with the said owner or owners of the land on
which the same may be, for the purchase of said land; and in case
of disagreement, or in case the owner should be a feme covert, under
age, or non compos, or out of the state or county, the president
of the company, or any person authorised by him for that purpose,
shall apply to a justice of the peace for the county wherein the said
materials may be, which justice shall thereupon issue his warrant, |
President and
managers may
agree with owners
of stone, &c. for
the same. |
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