ROBERT BOW IE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1804.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
levy court of Harford county to appoint an overseer, and levy such sum of money as they in their
discretion shall think necessary, to clear the road as now opened, leading from a certain widow
iiarrey's, near the quaker meeting-house, to the mill of Thomas B. Onion, through the lands of
John Trimble, William Amoss, junior, James Amoss, junior, Mordecai Amoss and Thomas B. Oni-
on; and the said road, when cleared, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, a public road,
and shall be kept in repair thereafter as other public roads in said county are kept in repair.

CHAP.
LXXVI.

Court to ap-
point an over-
seer, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the overseer appointed in virtue of this ait shall have the same
allowance as other overseers of public roads in said county, and shall give bond in like manner as other
overseers are directed by law.

C H A P. LXXVII.

His allowance.

An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake Insurance Company.

WHEREAS sundry persons within- this state have formed themselves into a society for the in-
surance of ships and merchandise at sea, and leading on bottomry and respondentia, and have
grayed to be incorporated by law; therefore,

Passed Janua-
ry 19, 1805.
Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That James Calhoun, Robert Gilmor,
junior, Robert and John Oliver, William Patterson and Son, Isaac Phillips, F. and A. Schwarze,
Christopher Deshon, Benjamin Comegys and John Comegys, James Carey, Isaac M'Kim, Snicker
and Beatty, J. Wilson and T. Wilson, David Wiilliamson, Robert Puddle, James Ogleby, Falls and
Brown, Payson and Smith, George Huffman, James Calhoun,, junior, Hugh Thompson, Walter
Dorsey, M. M^cBlair, Hugh, M^cCurdy, Samuel Smith, Lewis B. Smith, Andrew and Thomas Elli-
cott, James Cox, William Baker, Solomon Etting, Williairi Smith, Thomas Poultney, Robert Mil-
ler, Frederick Hammer, John Kennedy and Cox, William Lornian, James Somerville, James Dall
and Company, John M^cKim, junior, George Grundy and .Nephew, Israel and John P. Pleasants,
Tyson and Norris, Matthew Brown, Ellicott and Company, William Cochran and Brothers, Willi-
am Cole, Nathan Tyson, Charles Burreli, William Wilson, Christopher Johnson, Albert Seekamp,
John Leypold, John Goddard, Thomas Hollingsworth, Robert and John Ferguson, Benjamin and J.
Ellicott, Thomas and J. Edmondson, John Holiins, John Garruthers, John Sherlock, William Cooke,
Philip E. Thomas, Mark Pringle, James Biays, John Ellicott, junior, George Salmon, John Don-
Dell, Thomas Tenant, Alexander McDonald, Ellsha Tyson, Joseph Thornburgh, David M^cMectien,
Benjamin Williams, Campbell and Ritche, William. J. Govane, Joshua Dorsey, John Trimble, Brook-e
and Dillon, Isaac Trimble, Samuel Byrnes, Alexander Mactier, James Gunn, Levin Wethered,
and such other persons as hereafter shall become stockholders in said company, shall be, and are
hereby created and declared to be, a body politic aud corporate, by the name, style and title, of
The Chesapeake Insurance Company, and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and shall
be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in all courts of law or equity in this state or
elsewhere, and to make and have a common seal, and the same to break, alter or renew, at their
pleasure, and also to ordain and . establish such by-laws, ordinances and regulations, as shall appear
necessary for regulating the concerns of said corporation, not being; contrary ^:to this act, or to
the.constitution and laws, of this state, or of the United Stales.

Persons incor-
porated, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the capital stock ;of the said corporation shall be six hundred
thousand dollars, divided into six hundred shares of one thousand dollars each share, and payable
one tenth part of each share on or before the fourth Monday of January, eighteen hundred and five,
unto James Calhoun, of the city of Baltimore, who is hereby empowered to receive the same for the
said corporation, and the remaining nine tenth parts to be; paid as is hereafter directed; and if any
person shall neglect or refuse to pay the same one tenth part on or before the said fourth Monday of
January, he shall cease to be a member of the said corporation, and his share or shares shall and may
be disposed of by the dbectors to be chosen as is hereinafter directed, to such person or persons
as may apply for the same, and who may be admitted members agreeably to the mode hereafter pre-
scribed for the admission of transfers; provided, that no person shall, be a proprietor of more than
ten stores in the said corporation.

Capital stock

&c.

IV. AND BE IT ENAGTEE, That for the well ordering of the affairs of the said corporation, there
shall be thirteen directors, being stockholders in said company, chosen by ballot on the first Mon-
day of February, in the year eighteen hundred and five, and on the same day in every year there-
after, by a plurality of votes of the stockholders present, or by proxy, each stockholder having as

There shall be
thirteen direc-
tors, &c