E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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CHAPTER 318.
AN ACT incorporating the Bohemia Bridge Company
of Cecil
County, Maryland.
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Passed May
27, 1853.
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WHEREAS, it is represented to
this General Assembly
by petition and otherwise, that the building of a bridge
over the Bohemia river, at or near the ferry in Cecil
county, would greatly enhance the value of a considerable
portion of the property of the county, as well as convenience
a large number of our citizens, by giving
them at all times safe and ready access to the county
and this General Assembly in view of these facts, wishing
to stimulate private enterprise to the completion of
so desired a work; Therefore,
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Preamble.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Benjamin F. Sluyter, James L.
Craig, George A. Ford, Richard H. Bryan, Francis B.
Crookshanks, Griffith McEldridge, Samuel Martindale,
L. D. Nowland and all and every person or persons,
who may become subscribers according to the mode
hereafter prescribed, their successors and assigns, shall
be and they are hereby incorporated, by the name
of the Bohemia Bridge company of Cecil county, Maryland,
for the purposes and with the privileges and immunities
hereinafter described, defined and granted, and
by that name shall be a body politic and corporate in
fact and in law, and may sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, in all courts of justice and elsewhere,
and the said company shall have power and authority
at any time after the passage of this act, to purchase,
receive in donation, possess and enjoy, retain, demise,
grant, lease, alien and sell under the restrictions and
limitations hereinafter mentioned, lands, hereditaments
and water privileges, rights, goods, chattles and effects,
necessary or useful for the construction and erection of
a bridge at or near Bohemia ferry, together with a wharf
and warehouses for the deposit and shipment of agricultural
and other products to market, and for the successful
prosecution of the powers and privileges herein
granted; Provided, the said company shall at no time
possess more than five acres of land, on which to place
tenements for the accommodation of companies, agents
or servants, and the said company shall have perpetual
succession, and power to make and use a common seal,
the same to change and renew at pleasure, and to adopt
and carry into execution such laws, ordinances and regulations
as shall by its directors be adjudged necessary
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Incorporated.
Provisoes.
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