WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 405
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OHAPTEE 266.
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AN ACT to authorize and empower the County
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Commissioners of Washington county to sub-
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scribe to the capital stock of turnpikes in said
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county.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
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bly of Maryland, That the County Commissioners
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of Washington county be and they are hereby au-
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thorized and empowered to subscribe to the capital
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stock of turnpike companies organized subse-
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quent to the first day of January, eighteen hundred
and seventy-nine, or hereafter to be organized for the
construction of turnpike roads in said county, in the
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Subscribe to
capital Block.
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name and for the benefit of said county, such sum
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or sums of money not to exceed in any case more
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than one-half of the estimated cost of said turnpikes,
in such manner and upon such terms and conditions
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as are hereinafter set forth and prescribed.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That whenever any
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twelve citizens of said county, residents and tax
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Required for
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payers thereof, shall desire to construct a turnpike
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public use.
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road over any public road bed in said county, they
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shall petition the county commissioners for that pur-
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pose, setting forth that such turnpike is required for
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the use of the public, and the county commissioners
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shall thereupon appoint three discreet and compe-
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tent persons, residents and tax payers of the district
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or districts through which said road is to be made, and
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who have a knowledge of the extent to which it is
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used, who shall, together with the surveyor of the
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county, examine said road and report to the county
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commissioners if said turnpike is required for the
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use of and the convenience of the public, together
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with the length and estimated cost per mile thereof;
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Estimated
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and if the said examiners shall so decide that the
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cost per mile.
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said turnpike is required for the public use, the
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county commissioners shall, in their discretion, sub-
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scribe for one half of the amount estimated as nec-
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essary to construct said turnpike whenever the said
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petitioners, or as many of them as shall be necessary,
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