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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Sellman, Hazel B. Cashell, W. W. Blunt, Charles
Abut and Washington Bowie and others, be and
they are hereby constituted a body politic and cor-
porate by the name of the Monocacy and Mont-
gomery Turnpike Company, and as such shall
have perpetual succession, and by their corporate
name may sue and be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded, grant, receive and all other acts as na-
tural persons, and may purchase and hold real,
personal and mixed property, or dispose of the
same, for the benefit of the said company or corpo-
ration; and may have and use a seal, which may be
broken or altered at pleasure.

Charter pri-
vilges

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That for the better
government of the said corporation, the following
shall be the charter privileges accorded to, the com-
pany hereby incorporated, and this act shall go
into full effect, as soon as the sum of twenty-five
thousand dollars shall be subscribed to its capital
stock; and this corporation is hereby authorized and
empowered whenever the President of said company
hereby created, shall inform the Commissioners of
Frederick and Montgomery counties, that twenty-
five hundred shares of stock has been subscribed, and
twenty-five thousand dollars thus secured; to take
full possession of the road known as the Frederick
and Georgetown road from the Monocacy river on its
north and west side as far as Nealsville on said
road, and from Nealsville said company shall have
the right to construct said road to Rockville, Mont-
gomery county, or to connect with the Washing-
ton and Brookville Union turnpike or plank road
company, or if thought judicious, to construct both
of said roads and hold them as their own, and use
them as hereinafter specified, and they are granted
the privilege and are hereby empowered to connect
their road or roads with the roads already made
from the points herein named to Frederick and
Washington respectively, and the Commissioners
of the counties herein named, shall without de-
lay, upon the receipt of the notice above men-
tioned from the President of this company relin-
quish all control of the roads herein named, and
shall transfer to this company all the roads and
their appurtenances to the President and Directors
of the Monocacy and Montgomery Turnpike Com-
pany.