70 PRIVATE ACTS—CHARTERS.

accepted by the Stockholders of said Bank, in general meeting as-
sembled, after such notice of said meeting as the President and Direc-
tors may prescribe for that purpose, which assent shall be certified to
the Comptroller of the State, under the corporate seal of said Bank;
and until such acceptance, said act of eighteen hundred and thirty-one,
and its supplements, and said other acts mentioned shall be continued
in force as at present.

SEC. 10 And be it enacted, That this act shall go into effect and
operation from and after the time of its acceptance as provided for in
the next preceding section.

WESTMINSTER AND TANEYTOWN TURNPIKE COMPANY.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled, a supplement to an act to authorize a lottery to
raise a sum of money to make a Turnpike Road from the town of Westminster, in
Carroll county, through Taneytown in said county, and through Emmitsburg, in
Frederick county, to the Pennsylvania line, passed at December session eighteen
hundred and forty-six, chapter two hundred and forty-two.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if the President and Directors of the Westminister and Taney-
town Turnpike Company shall neglect to keep said Turnpike Road in
good and perfect order for the space of fifteen days, and information
shall be given to any Justice of the Peace of the neighborhood, within
the county, where the repair ought to be made, such Justice shall issue
a precept to be directed to any Constable commanding him to summon
three disinterested persons, to be named by the said Justice in the said
precept, to meet at a certain time in the said precept to be mentioned,
at the place in the said road which shall be complained of, of which
meeting notice shall be given to the keeper of the gate or turnpike nearest
thereto, and the said Justice shall at such time and place on the oaths
or affirmations of the said persons, inquire whether the said road or
any part thereof, is in such good and perfect order and repair as afore-
said and shall cause an inquisition to be made and certified under the
hands of himself, and a majority of the said persons, and if the road
shall be found by the said inquisition to be out of order and repair,
contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, the said Justice
shall certify and send one copy of the said inquisition to each of the
keepers of the turnpike or gates between which such defective place
shall be, and from thenceforth the tolls granted by the said act, of
which this act is amendatory, to be collected at such turnpikes or gates,
shall cease to be demanded, paid or collected until the said defective
part or parts of said road shall be put in good and perfect order and
repair as aforesaid; and if the same shall not be put in good and per-
fect order and repair before the next Circuit Court for said county, the
aforesaid Justice shall certify and send a copy of the inquisition afore-
said to the Judge of the said Circuit Court, who shall thereupon cause
to be brought before him the body or bodies of the person or persons