T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ.; GOVERNOR.

1860.

the mode of transferring the stock of the company,
and of furnishing evidence of the ownership of the
shares of the said company; may have the authority
to fix the amount of toll to be paid by persons
using or passing along said road, but the Legisla-
ture may regulate the amount of tolls at any time
hereafter.

CHAP. 144.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the president and
directors [may be chosen] who may be chosen in
the manner hereinbefore provided for, he and they
are hereby authorised and empowered to cut, dig
and make said turnpike road, from the city of Cum-
berland, by the nearest and most practicable route
to the Pennsylvania line, in the direction of Bed-
ford, Pennsylvania, not to exceed sixty feet in
width, the said road to be graduated in such a
manner, that the acclivity or declivity thereof shall
not in any case exceed seven degrees; the width of
said road may be varied so that it shall not exceed
thirty feet, nor be less than twenty feet, through
level ground, and it shall be raised in the middle
one twenty-fourth part of its breadth, but in pas-
sing along declivities it may be flat; bridges, side
ditches, gutters or artificial bed of stone, or gravel
shall be dispensed with, except in such instances as
the president and directors may deem them neces-
sary, so as not to inter fere with any previous rights,
grants or charters, without the free consent of the

The road — its
route, charac-
ter, &c.

parties; the said president and directors first obtain-
ing, in writing, the consent of the owners of the
land through which said turnpike shall pass, or if
such consent cannot be had, on account of the in-
fancy, lunacy or other incapacity of any party, or
of their unwillingness to consent, and it be deemed
necessary that said road pass through the land of
any person or persons, refusing his, her or their
consent as aforesaid, then the president and direc-
tors, on the behalf of the company, shall apply to
a justice of the peace for said county, which said
justice shall thereupon issue his warrant, directed
to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to
summon twelve disinterested persons, qualified to
serve as jurors in the county court, to meet at a
proper place, on the premises, to be valued, not
less than ten days after the date of the Warrant;
shall qualify the said persons, either by oath or
affirmation, as the case may be, justly, truly and
impartially, to value the damages which may be

Lands — for
use of the
company —
how obtained.