THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

County, on theWilmington and Susquehanna Rail Road,

CHAP. 338.

and thence running through Cecil, Kent, Queen Anns,

Caroline, Dorchester and Somerset counties, as near,

and as nearly parallel as may conveniently be, to the

Western boundary line of the State of Delaware, till

the Southern boundary line of the said State be passed,

and thence passing through or near Quantico and

Princess Anne, to some point, or safe and convenient

landing place on the southern or south western limits

of Somerset county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That James Sewell and

Commissioners to

Lambert D. Nowland, for Cecil county; William McK.

receive subscriptions

Osbourne and George Vickers, for Kent county; John

Brown and Doctor Robert Goldsborough, for Queen

Ann's county; Thomas Burchenal and Edward B.

Hardcastle, for Caroline county; William Hughlett

and Edward N. Hambleton, for Talbot county; Tho-

mas H. Hicks and Doctor William Jackson, for Dor-

chester county; Arnold E. Jones and Joseph S. Cott-

man, for Somerset county, and Doctor John P. R.

Gillis and Doctor John S. Spence, for Worcester coun-

ty, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners,

under the direction of whom, or of one of whom for

each county, subscriptions may be received to the capi-

tal stock of the Eastern Shore Rail Road Company,

hereby incorporated; and they or one of them, in each

Open books

county, shall cause books to be opened in the county

town in each of the said counties, on the first Monday

in August next, after the passage of this act, for the

purpose of receiving subscriptions to the capital stock

of said company, after having given such notice in two

Notice

or more newspapers published in the Siate of Mary-

land, Pennsylvania and Delaware, of the time and

places of opening the same, as they may deem proper;

and that the said books shall be kept open for at least

three successive days, from ten o'clock, A. M., until

two o'clock, P. M., and upon the eighth day after the

said first Monday in August, the said commissioners, or

one from each county, shall meet in the town of Denton,

bringing together the said hooks, to ascertain and re-

port the amount of stock which shall have been taken.

and if it shall then appear, that such a subscription to