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CHAP. 142.
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Alexander Grim, and Stephen Steiner, commissioners ap-
pointed at a meeting of the president and managers of the
Harper's-ferry turnpike road company, held at William
Scott's tavern, at New-Town, (Trap,) on the 23th day of
December eighteen hundred and seventeen, according to the
plot of said road made out by said commissioners, and re-
turned to Frederick county on the twenty- fifth day of June
eighteen hundred and eighteen, in compliance with the pro-
visions of the act of assembly, passed at December session
eighteen hundred and fifteen.
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Books to be open-
ed Capital
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That subscription books shall
be opened, on or before the first day of June next, for a
capital stock for said company of twenty thousand dollars,
in one thousand shares of twenty dollars each, in the city
of Frederick, under the direction of Col. John M'Pherson,
Abraham Shriver, John Brengle, John Baltzell, John Hoff-
man, Richard Potts, Francis Thomas, or any three or more
of them; in New-Town, (Trap,) under the direction of
Patrick Magill, senr. Henry Culler, James Torrence, George
Willyard, Lloyd Dorsey, Henry Cost, and John Simmons,
or any three or more of them; at Petersville, under the di-
rection of John Thomas, Grafton Duvall, John Lee, Jere-
miah G. Morrison, Lingan Butler, John Biser, Joseph West,
or any three or more of them; at Wever's Mills, under the
direction of Thomas Butler, Alexander Grim, Christian
Stonebraker, John Cost, Edward Garrott, Erasmus Garrott,
hereby appointed commissioners for the purposes aforesaid;
paper printed in Frederick county, or otherwise, for two
weeks at least, of the time when, and place where, said books
will be opened to receive subscriptions of stock for said com-
pany; and said books shall be kept open for the space of
two days; and the whole of said stock be not then sub-
scribed for, said commissioners may re-open said books at
such time and place as they may think fit, under the direc-
tion of such persons as they may respectively appoint, for
further subscriptions, from time to time, until the whole of
said stock may be subscribed for; and if the aforementioned
capital shall prove insufficient for the completion of said
road, in the manner hereinafter directed, it may be lawful
for the president and managers of said road, appointed as here-
inafter authorised, to increase the said capital, by opening
books at the beforcmentioned places, first having given at
least twenty days notice in some newspaper printed in Frede-
rick, under the direction of such persons as they may ap-
point, for receiving and entering such additional subscrip-
tion as said president and managers may deem necessary
and it shall be the duty of said commissioners, or of said
president and managers, as the case may be, so soon as said
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