1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 321.

CHAP. 321.

Passed April 2,1836

An act to incorporate a company, to make a Turnpike

Road from Hagerstown in Washington County, to

the Pennsylvania Line.

Incorporated

SECTION 1. Be it enactcd by the General Assembly of Maryland, That a company be and the same is hereby

incorporated, for making a Turnpike road, to he com-

menced at some point within the corporate limits of

Hagerstown, and extended to the Pennsylvania line.

in the direction of Waynesboro', in Franklin county,

Pennsylvania.

Capital stock

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That for making said

road, subscription books for a capital stock of fifty

thousand dollars, in twenty-five hundred shares, at

Books to he open-

twenty dollars each, be opened in Hagerstown and

ed

Waynesboro' aforesaid, by, or under the directions of

all or any of the following commissioners to wit:

Thomas Keller, Andrew Kershner, and John R. Dall,

on the first Monday in June, next, and continue open

for three days inclusive, and in the event of fifteen

hundred shares of said stock not being subscribed for,

at the expiration of the said three days, in the manner

Re-opened

hereinafter provided, that then, and in that event, the

said commissioners or a majority of them, are hereby

authorised and empowered to cause said books to be

re-opened at such times or places as they, or a majori-

ty of them shall think proper, until the managers of

the company are elected, in the manner hereinafter

mentioned, unless in the mean time the capital stock

of fifty thousand dollars be subscribed for.

Corporation may

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be

hold suick

lawful for any incorporation or body politic, in the

State of Maryland, or any of the United States, or of

the District of Columbia, to become stockholders in

the said company, and hold stock therein.

Organization and

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That when the said fifteen

choosing of presi-dent and mana-

hundred shares of said stock shall have been subscrib-

gersn

ed for, the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of

them, shall give three weeks public notice in one or

more of the newspapers printed in Hagerstown or