A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

Turnpike Company to construct and build a good
and substantial turnpike upon the bed of the old
Marsh Road; commencing at the junction of said
old Marsh Road with the Hagerstown and Leiters-
burg Turnpike, and running thence on said old
Marsh Road to the Pennsylvania State line.

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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That to raise the ways
and means wherewith to construct said road, a
capital stock of fifteen thousand dollars, in shares
of twenty-five dollars each, is hereby authorized,
and Henry Lehman, Jacob B. Lehman, Joseph Esh-
elman, Peter Eshelman, Washington L. Berry,
Wm. Logan and Henry Clopper, be and they are
hereby appointed Commissioners lor the purpose of
opening subscription books, and receiving subscrip-
tions to the capital stock of fifteen thousand dollars,
in shares of twenty-five dollars each, who shall, on or
before the first Monday in May next, procure said
subscription books; and enter in each book or cause
to be therein entered as follows, to wit: We, whose
names are hereunto subscribed, do promise to pay
to the Marsh Turnpike Company the sum of
twenty-five dollars for every share of the capital
stock of the said company set opposite to our
names respectively, at such times and in such
manner as is provided for by law, or may be pro-
vided for by said company; and the said Commis-
sioners shall give notice in one or more newspapers
published in Hagerstown, for at least two consecu-
tive weeks, of the time when and the place where
the said books will be opened to receive subscrip-
tions to the capital stock of the said company as afore-
said, at which time and place at least two of the
said Commissioners shall attend with the said sub-
scription book, or any one of them, and open the
same, and then and there shall permit and suffer
all persons who shall offer to subscribe in said
book or books to the capital stock as aforesaid,
either in person or by attorney duly authorized to
do so, and said books shall be kept open for that
purpose at least four hours every day, Sundays
excepted, for the space of three days, if three days
shall be necessary, and the said Commissioners or
any two of them may adjonrn from time to time,
until the whole number of the shares aforesaid
shall be subscribed, giving such notice of adjourn-
ment as may by them be deemed necessary, and

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Capital stock.