ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 516.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of

Washington county to subscribe to the capital stock

of turnpikes in said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the county commissioners of
Washington county be and they are hereby authorized

and empowered to subscribe to the capital stock of

turnpike companies organized subsequent to the first

day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-three,

Authorized to

or hereafter to be organized, for the construction of

subscribe.

turnpike roads in said county, in the name and for

the benefit of said county, such sum or sums of money

not to exceed in any case more than one half of the

estimated cost of said turnpikes, in such manner and

upon such terms and conditions as are hereinafter set

forth and prescribed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That whenever any

twelve citizens of said county, residents and tax-

payers thereof, shall desire to construct a turnpike

road over any public road-bed in said county, they

shall petition the county commissioners for that pur-

Petition county
commissioners

pose, setting forth that such turnpike is required for

the use of the public, and the county commissioners

shall thereupon appoint three discreet and competent

residents and taxpayers of the district or districts

through which said road is to be made, and who have

a knowledge of the extent to which it is used, who

shall, together with the surveyor of the county, ex-

amine said road and report to the county commis-

sioners if said turnpike is required for the use of and

the convenience of the public, together with the length

and estimated cost per mile thereof; and if the said

examiners shall so decide that the said turnpike is re-

quired for the public use, the county commissioners

shall, in their discretion, subscribe to one half of the

Subecribe to
one-half.

amount estimated as necessary to construct said turn-

pike whenever the said petitioners, or as many of them

as shall be necessary, shall organize a company and

obtain a charter, which shall be approved by the

county commissioners, for building said turnpike un-

der the general incorporation laws of the state, and

shall exhibit to the said county commissioners a sub-

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