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An ACT to open a Road in Frederick County.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Peter Shover, Peter Zollinger and
James Hughes, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority of
them, are hereby authorised, as commissioners, to lay out and open, at the expense of said county,
a road, not exceeding thirty feet wide, from Emmitsburg, through the South Mountain, to George
Oat's tavern on the public road leading from Hagar's-town, through Mark Harman's Gap, to Balti-
more, so as to do as little injury as possible to the lands through which it may pass; provided, that
the said road shall not pass through any houses, gardens, orchards or meadows, unless with the con-
sent of the owner or owners thereof; and the said road, when so laid out and completed, shall be
recorded among the records of said county, and be thereafter deemed and taken to be a public road,
and shall be kept in repair as other roads in said county are directed to be.
CHAP. XCVI.
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Passed 6th of
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An ACT to incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike Road from
the Town of Westminster, in Frederick County, through Harman's
Gap, to Hagar's-Town, in Washington County.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That a company be incorporated for making
a turnpike road, beginning at or near the town of Westminster, in Frederick county, and run-
ning in the nearest and best direction, through Harman's Gap, in the South Mountain, to Hagar's-
town, in Washington county,
II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscription books be opened for a capital stock of two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, in shares of twenty dollars each, and that subscriptions be taken in for
one hundred thousand dollars of the same at the city of Baltimore, under the direction of Thomas
Dickson, Cornelius H. Gist, Peter Hoffman, Solomon Etting and George F. Warfield; for eighty
thousand dollars at Hagar's-town, under the direction of Charles Carroll, Upton Lawrence, Robert
Hughes, William Heyser and William Downey; for thirty thousand dollars at Mechanic's-town, in
Frederick county, under the direction of James Johnson, Joshua Delaplane and John Weller; and for
forty thousand dollars at Westminster, in Frederick county, under the direction of David Fisher,
John Wampler and David Shriver, junior; who are hereby appointed commissioners for the purposes
aforesaid, who shall, on or before the first Monday in April next, procure books, and in each enter
as^ follows, to wit: We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do promise to pay to the president,
managers and company, of the Hagar's-town turnpike road company, the sum of —— dollars for
every share of stock in the said company set opposite to our respective names. Witness our hands,
this - —— day of ——, eighteen hundred and ———; and shall give notice in one of the public news-
papers in the city of Baltimore, one in Frederick -town, and one in Hagar's-town, for one month at
least, of the times when, and places where, the said books will be open to receive subscriptions of
stock for the said company, at which times and places at least two of the said respective commission-
ers shall attend, and shall permit and suffer all persons who shall offer to subscribe in person, or by
attorney duly authorised, in the. said books, which shall be kept open for that purpose at least four
hours every day, Sundays excepted, for the space of three days, if three days shall be necessary;
provided nevertheless, that the said commissioners shall not permit any one person or company to
subscribe for more than twenty-five shares during the first day on which the said books shall be opened
in the said company, nor more than fifty shares on the second day on which the said books shall be
opened; and if, at the expiration of the said three first days, the said books shall not have, for the
said road, the full number subscribed, the said commissioners may adjourn from time to time until
the number of shires shall be respectively subscribed, of which adjournment public notice shall be
given in the papers aforesaid; and when the said subscriptions in the said books shall amount to the
said respective numbers aforesaid, the same shall be closed; provided always, that every person offer-
ing to subscribe in the said books in his own name, or in the name of any other person, shall, upon
subscribing, pay to the attending commissioners one dollar for ef ery share to be subscribed, out of
which shall be defrayed the expense attending taking such subscription, and other incidental charges,
and the remainder shall be deposited in the Hagar's-town bank, in the county of Washington, for
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