JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1832.

that no subscriber shall be entitled to vote at said meeting
unless owning four shares, and for every four shares to he
entitled to a vote.

CHAP. 141.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the said President and
Directors shall have power to appoint the time, and direct
the manner of holding the election for President and Di-
rectors, which election shall be annual; may provide for
calling the general meetings of the Stockholders; may
provide the mode of transferring the stock of the compa-
ny, and of furnishing evidences of the ownership of shares
of said company, may have authority to fix the amount of
toll to be paid by persons using or passing along, and on

said road; Provided, that no higher rates of toll be impo-
sed or collected, than is prescribed and authorised to be
collected, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly of
the State of Pennsylvania, passed at the session of eigh-
teen hundred and thirty-one, and thirty-two, to authorise
the Governor to incorporate a company for making a turn-
pike road from a suitable point on the Somerset arid Bed-
ford Turnpike road to the Maryland line, in the direction
of Cumberland.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the President and Di-
rectors who may be chosen in the manner herein before
provided, for, be and they are hereby authorised and em-
powered to cut, dig and make the said Turnpike road from

Authority to con-

such point as the Somerset and Cumberland turnpike road
company of Pennsylvania may fix upon, on the Pennsylva-
nia line, as may be deemed most advantageous, passing
in and through Allegany county as aforesaid, not exceeding
fifty feet in width, of which twenty feet shall be an artifi-
cial road, so as not to interfere with any previous rights,
grants or charters, without free consent of the parties, the
said President and Directors first obtained in writing the
consent of the owners of the land through which such
turnpike road, shall pass, or if such consent cannot be had,
and it be necessary that said turnpike road should pass
through the land of any person refusing his, her or their
consent as aforesaid, then the President and Directors on
behalf of the company shall apply to a justice of the peace
for said county, which justice shall thereupon issue his
warrant, directed to the Sheriff of the county, command-
ing him to summon twelve disinterested persons qualified
to serve as jurors in the county court to meet at the proper
place as directed by the said justice, and the said Sheriff
shall qualify the said persons, either by oath or affirmation,
as the case may be, justly, truly and impartially to value the

Regulations as to

land.