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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Passed May
26, 1853.
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CHAPTER 341.
AN ACT to incorporate the Bel-Air and Hickory Turnpike
Road Company, in Harford
county.
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Incorporated
to make a
turnpike road.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That a company be, and the same is
hereby incorporated to make a turnpike road on the
bed of the present county road, leading from the town
of Bel-Air to a village known by the name of Hickory,
in Harford county.
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Commissioners
appointed.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That for making said
road, subscription books for a capital stock of ten thousand
dollars, in shares of twenty dollars each, shall be opened
at Bel-Air, by and under the direction of all, or a majority
of the following commissioners, to wit: Edward
Reynolds, James Kean, Robert H. Bussey, Henry C.
Preston, N. W. S. Hays, John Ward, Isaac Mechem,
Robert W. Holland, William H. Dallam, Edmund
Hoops, George Rider, and Jacob Minick, on or before
the first day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three,
and continue them open until two hundred shares of
said stock shall be subscribed for, and until the managers
of the company are elected in the manner hereinafter
mentioned, unless in the meantime the capital
stock of ten thousand dollars be subscribed for.
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Meeting of
subscribers to
organise.
Proviso.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted,
That when the said two
hundred shares of stock shall have been subscribed for,
the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them,
shall give twenty days public notice in one or more of
the papers published in Harford county, of the time
and place to be designated by them for the subscribers
to meet, for the purpose of organizing said corporation,
by choosing by plurality of votes by ballot, a president
and five directors, any four of whom shall constitute a
quorum, a treasurer, and such other officers as they shall
deem necessary for conducting the affairs of said company
until the first Monday in January thereafter, and
until a new election; and for making such rules, by-laws,
orders and regulations as do not contravene the
constitution and laws of this State or of the United
States, as may be necessary for the well governing the
affairs of said company; and at such meeting for election,
or in determining any question arising at such
meeting, and in any election, or in determining any
question arising at any subsequent meeting, every person
or body politic holding shares, shall be entitled to
one vote for each share so held; Provided, that no
person or body politic shall have more than ten votes,
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