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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Passed May
27, 1853.
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CHAPTER 336.
AN ACT to incorporate the Knoxville and Middletown
Road company.
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Incorporated
to make a
turnpike or
plank road.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That a company be incorporated to make
a turnpike or plank road from the Baltimore and Ohio
rail road, at or near the town of Knoxville, in Frederick
county, or from some convenient point, not more
than two miles from said town, on the Frederick and
Harper's ferry ridge road, to the Frederick and Boonsborough
turnpike, at or near the town of Middletown
in said county.
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Commissioners
appointed.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That subscription books
shall be opened at Knoxville and Middletown, and the
same shall be opened at Knoxville under the direction
of William B. Tabler, William Longbridge, Edward
Garrott, Samuel B. Preston and Howard Sellman; at
Burkettsville, under the direction of Michael Heiner,
William T. Gittings, Manasses Grove, Emanuel Slifer
and John Dawson Garrott; at Middletown, under
the direction of George Bowlus, Samuel Ahalt, John
Arnold, James Keena and Samuel Tonas, for a capital
stock of thirty thousand dollars, in shares of twenty
dollars each, who are hereby appointed commissioners
for the purpose aforesaid, who, after at least twenty
days notice by publication in two of the newspapers of
Frederick county, of the time and place of opening
said subscription books, at which time and of each
place at least three of the above named commissioners
shall attend, and shall permit all persons and corporations,
who shall offer to subscribe, in person or by
attorney, for stock in said books, which shall be kept
open for that purpose at least four hours in each day for
three successive days, if necessary, and if the whole of
the capital stock be not then subscribed for, the said
commissioners may re-open said books, at such time
and place as they may think fit, under the directions of
said commissioners or any three of them, for further
subscriptions, from time to time until the whole of said
stock be subscribed for.
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Subscriptions
valid.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted,
That all subscriptions to
stock made by any person or corporation, in the presence
of any one of the aforesaid commissioners, and at
any other place or time than the place or time designated
in the notice published by the commissioners, shall
be deemed as valid and binding as if said stock were
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