JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

1834

cient for the completion of the said road is subscribed for,
no further subscriptions shall be received

CHAP. 188

Sec 11 And be it enacted, That the President and
Managers, be and they are hereby authorised to appoint
three Commissioners, who, or a majority of whom agreeing,
shall lay out the said road in the nearest and best direction
from the turnpike near Westminster to Taneytown, thence
through Emmittsburg to the Maryland and Pennsylvania
State line aforesaid, to intersect the turnpike road leading
to Waynesburg and after having laid out and marked said

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road, shall mark out a plot of the same, specifying the
course and distance, and return the said plot to the Pre-
sident and Managers, and the sad commissioners, before

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they proceed to act shall take the following oath or affirma-
tion I, A B do swear or affirm as the case may be, that
I will lay out and make the Northern Turnpike of Frederick
County according the best of my skill and judgment, ac
cording to the purport of an act, entitled, an act to incorpo-
rate a, company to make a Turnpike Road from the turnpike
near Westminster to Taneytown, thence through the town
of Emmittsburg to the Maryland and Pennsylvania State
line, to intersect the Turnpike Road leading to Waynesburg,
and I do further swear, or affirm as the case may be, that
I am not interested in any land through which said road is
likely to pass

Oath

Sec 12 And be it enacted That the said company shall
cause the said road to be lard out sixty feet wide, twenty
feet whereof in breadth, at least, shall be made an artificial
road, to be composed of stone, or gravel, and shall in no
place rise or fall more than will form an angle of more than
four and a half degrees with an horizontal line

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Sec 13 And be it enacted, That if the said company
shall not commence the making of said road, within five
years from the passage of this act, and shall not complete
the same within five years thereafter, the right of the said
company to the said road, shall revert to the State of Ma-
ryland

Limitation-Reverse

Sec 14 And be it enacted, That the said company shall
be and is hereby clothed and invested as respects the said
road, with all and singular, the rights, privileges immunities,
and advantages, not inconsistent With the provisions of this
act, that are, held, used, and possessed by the several turnpike
companies, incorporated by an act of Assembly, passed at
November session, eighteen hundred and four, chapter fifty
one, entitled an act to incorporate companies to make se-

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