1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 113.

Assembly, that by the ninth section of said act, the

President and Managers of the Williamsport and Ha-

gerstown Tunpike Company were authorised to ap-

point commissioners to lay out the road contemplated

in said act, and to make a plot thereof and return the

same to said President and Managers, and that such

commissioners were appointed and did lay out said

road and return a plot thereof, but that said commis-

sioners were not sworn according to the provisions of

said ninth section, and that after said route had been

laid out and a plot thereof returned as aforesaid, the

said President and Managers changed said location

near the Town of Williamsport, a few perches, by

which the distance was shortened, and whereas it ap-

pears that the provisions of said act have been sub-

stantially complied with, that commissioners were ap-

pointed by the Governor of this State, to examine and

determine whether said road had been made and com-

pleted according to law, who reported favorably there-

on, and that a license was afterwards granted by the

said Governor to authorise said President and Mana-

gers to erect gates and receive tolls on said road: —

Therefore.

proceed ings direc ted— title vested

Se it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the acts and proceedings of the said President

and Managers in the construction and completion of

said Turnpike Road, he and the same are hereby rati-

fied and confirmed, and that the company incorporated

by said act of Assembly be and are hereby invested

with all and singular the rights, privileges, immunities

and advantages in every respect to which they would

have been entitled by said act of incorporation, if all

the terms, provisions and conditions of said act, had

been literally complied with.