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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

fix their compensation, and dismiss them at will,
to provide for requiring and taking security for
the faithful performance of the duty of any office
of the company, for making all contracts which
shall be necessary to effect the purposes contempla-
ted by this act, and for settling all accounts of the
company, to provide for furnishing to the Stock-
holders certificates or other evidences of their rights

By-laws.

to stock and for the. transfer of stock and evidence
of such transfer; and to pass all such by-laws as
shall be proper or necessary for exercising all the
powers, rights and privileges vested in the com-
pany hereby incorporated, or in the said Managers
or for the performance of the duties required of
them by this act, and the said by-laws from time
to time, alter or repeal, subject, nevertheless, to
the revision of the Stockholders at a general meet-
ing as herein provided.

Vested rights,

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That the said com-
pany are hereby invested with all the rights and
powers necessary for the construction of a turn-
pike road from the Western Maryland Railroad at
Union Bridge, Carroll county, to the village of

Proviso.

Unionville, Frederick county; provided, that the
company may use the bed of the public road now
leading from the village of Union Bridge, to the
village of Unionville, or so much thereof, and with
such divergence as they may deem necessary.

May agree
with owners
of land.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the President
and Managers of said company may agree with
owners of land required for said road, and also for
the purchase of stone, gravel, earth, sand or tim-
ber for said road, and in all cases where they are
unable to agree with the owner or owners, or should
he or she be a feme covert or non compos mentis,
or under age, the said President may apply to a
Justice of the Peace of the county wherein it may
occur, who shall thereupon issue his warrant to
the Sheriff of the county aforesaid, commanding
him to summon twenty disinterested persons quali-
fied to act as jurors in the Circuit Court, to meet
upon the land, after four are stricken off the panel
by the President or his agent, and by the persons
interested, or in his, her or their absence or refu-
sal, by the said Sheriff, the Sheriff shall qualify
the remaining twelve persons, either by oath or
affirmation, as the case may be, justly and impar-