336 FORMATION, POWERS, AND REGULATION OF CORPORATIONS. [ART. 40.

	authorized to collect from each company whose statement is so pub- lished by him
1674, c 9, s 106 Foreign insur- ance companies empowered to take and hold property.	100- Any insurance company incorporated under the laws of any other State may acquire by purchase or any other manner, and take, receive, hold, use, employ, manage, dispose of, or deal with, any property, real, personal, or mixed, and situate in this State, which may be necessary or proper to enable any of said insurance companies to erect for office or business purposes, or to enable any of said insurance companies to foreclose any mortgages that may be due said companies for loans made, provided, that all transac-
To what subject	tions as herein permitted shall be in accordance with the laws now in force regulating such transactions on the part of insurance com- panies incorporated under the laws of this State; all laws of this State regulating and providing for the purchase and holding of real estate by insurance companies of this State shall be construed to bear with equal effect in law upon companies of other States pur- chasing or holding real estate in this State. TURNPIKE, PLANK ROAD, AND PASSENGER RAILWAY COMPANIES.
1868, c 471, s. 107 How formed	110. Corporations for making turnpike or plank roads or pas- senger railways outside of the limits of the city of Baltimore, and not exceeding twelve miles in length for any one road in this State, may be formed as hereinbefore provided; turnpike or plank roads or passenger railways may be coustructed on the bed of any county road, or on part of the bed thereof, the consent of the county commis- sioners of the county in which said road may he having been first given in writing and recorded among the proceedings of said county commissioners, and also recorded in the book or journal of proceed-
Power to change bed of county road	ings of said corporation. The location of the bed of any part of said county road may be changed by said corporation for the purpose of a better construction of said turnpike or plank road or passenger railway, provided the land to be occupied, be obtained by agreement
Construction of roads	with the owners thereof, or by condemnation; at least fifteen feet in width of the bed of any turnpike road shall be covered with broken stone, or gravel, or other hard or durable materials, to the depth of at least twelve inches, unless the natural bed be hard, and the bed of any plank road shall be well and securely laid and covered with plank or wood for the same width.
Id s 108 Report to county commis- sioner.	111. When any turnpike, or plank road, or passenger railway, shall have been finished one mile in length, the president and direc- tors shall report to the county commissioners of the county in which it may lie, under the oath of the president and a majority of the di- rectors, and of the treasurer of the corporation, the actual cost of
Duty of county commissioners	said road so far as finished; and thereupon, the county commis- sioners shall appoint three citizens of the county to examine said road, and determine whether the same is constructed in such man- ner as will subserve the public interests for the uses to which said