A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 65

CHAPTER 51.
AN ACT to incorporate the Woodsborough and Pike Creek Turnpike Company.	Passed Jan. 25, 1864.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That a company be, and the same is hereby incorporated, for making a turnpike road, on the bed of the county road in Frederick county, known as the "Old York Road," commencing at Woodsborough, the terminus of the Woodsborough and Monocacy turnpike road, and running thence to the bridge across Little Pipe creek, on said road, the dividing line between Frederick and Carroll counties, and thence by the most practicable route through Middleburg to Union bridge, in Carroll county.	Act of Incor- poration.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That for making said road, subscription books for a capital stock of twenty thousand dollars, in one thousand shares, of twenty dollars each share, shall be opened by and under the direction of Samuel Birely, Thomas F. Cover, Isaac Renner, John W. Barrick, and John A. Koons, on or before the first Monday of April next, and to continue the same open until not less than two hundred and fifty shares of said capital stock shall have been subscribed.	Authorized to open books.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That when said two hundred and fifty shares of stock shall have been subscribed, the Commissioners aforesaid, or a ma- jority of them, shall give ten days notice, by handbills, set up at three or more conspicuous places on the line of the said contemplated turn- pike road, of the time and place to be by them designated for the subscribers to meet, for the pur- pose of organizing said corporation, by choosing, by a plurality of votes, by ballot, a President and five Directors, three of whom shall be a quorum, also a Treasurer and such other officers as they shall deem necessary for conducting the affairs oi said company, until the first Monday of April of the ensuing year, at which election every stock- holder shall be entitled to vote, either in person or by proxy, one vote for every share of stock he may own, not exceeding twenty votes in the whole and 9	Notice to be given.