JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 539

CHAPTER 368.
AN ACT to incorporate the West Friendship and
Linden Turnpike Company.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of	Commissioners
Maryland, That Dawson Laurence, Enock Silby,	appointed
Milton W. Shipley, Nicholas A. Selby, Reuben
Ridgeley, and Thomas Grimes, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners to take subscrip-
tions to the capital stock of the " West Friendship
and Linden Turnpike Company," hereby incorpora-
ted, and they or a majority of them may cause books
to be opened at such times and places as they may
deem expedient, upon giving such notice as they may
think proper of the time and place of opening the
same ; and the capital stock of the said company
shall not exceed the sum of lorty thousand dollars.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the subscribers to
said stock, their successors and assigns shall be and	Incorporated
they are hereby declared to be incorporated into a
company by the name of the West Friendship and
Linden Turnpike Company; and by that name shall
be capable in law of purchasing, holding, selling,
leasing, and conveying estates, real, personal, and
mixed, so far as may be necessary for the purpose
hereinafter mentioned, and no further ; and shall	Powers
have succession and by said corporate name may sue
and be sued, and have and use a common seal, which
they shall have power to alter or renew at their
pleasure; and shall exercise all the powers, rights,
and priviliges which other corporate bodies may
lawfully do for the purposes mentioned in this act.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when three hun-	Call a general
dred shares or more of said stock shall have been	meeting.
subscribed, the said commissioners or a majority of
them shall call a general meeting of the subscribers,
at such time and place as they may appoint, and give
at least ten days' public notice thereof; and at such
meeting the said commissioners shall lay the sub-
scription" books before the subscribers then and there
present ; whereupon the subscribers or a majority of
them shall elect seven directors, by ballot, to manage
the affairs of the company ; which directors or a
majority of them shall have power to elect a Presi-