WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 48.

AN ACT to continue the corporate franchises

granted by the act entitled " An Act to incorpo-

rate the Frederick and Emmittsburg Turnpike

Company," passed at December session, eighteen

hundred and forty-four, chapter one hundred and

thirty-six, and by the several supplements and

amendments to said act subsequently passed, and

to repeal section fourteen of said act of incorpo-

ration, and to substitute a new section in lieu

thereof, to read as follows :

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the corporate franchises

granted by the act entitled " An Act to incor-

porate the Frederick and Emmittsburg Turnpike

Company," passed at December session, eighteen

Continued in

hundred and forty-four, chapter one hundred and

duration.

thirty- six, and by the several supplements and

amendments to said act subsequently passed, be

and the same are hereby continued without any

limitation as to the duration of said corporation,

subject to the provisions of this act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That section fourteen

Repealed and

of said act of incorporation be and the same is

new section

added.

hereby repealed, and the following section enacted

and substituted in lieu thereof:

14 a. That for the purpose of ascertaining the

weight that may be drawn along the said road in

any cart, wagon or other carriage of burthen, it shall

and may be lawful for the president, managers and

Erect and es-
tablish scales.

company to erect and establish scales and weights

at or near such, or so many of the gates erected or

to be erected in pursuance of this act, as they may

think proper; and when there may seem reasonable

cause to suspect that any cart, wagon or other car-

riage of burthen carries a greater weight than is or

shall be by law allowable, it shall be lawful for the

toll gatherers, or other persons in their service or

Prevent pas-

employment, to prevent the same from passing such

other vehicle.

gate or turnpike until such cart, wagon or other

carriage of burthen shall be drawn into the fixed or