T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 252.

1860.

AN ACT to incorporate a company to build a
Turnpike road from Libertytown in Frederick
county, to intersect the Woodsboro and Fred-
erick Turnpike Road, at or near the Monocacy
Bridge.

Passed March
10, 1860.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That a company be incorporated to
make a turnpike road from the town of Liberty in
Frederick county, to intersect the Woodsboro' and
Frederick Turnpike Road at or near the Monocacy
bridge, to be known and styled as the Liberty and
Frederick Turnpike Road Company.

Incorporated.

SEC. 2 And be it enacted, That subscription
books shall be opened at Libertytown, Mount Plea-
sant and Frederick city, under the direction of
Thomas G. Maynard, Adam W. Devilbiss, Augus-
tus A. Sappington, John Wogborn, Henry Cram-
er, Samuel Hoke, James Whitehill, Jacob Fox
and Ezra Houck, for a capital stock of twenty
thousand dollars, in shares of twenty dollars each,
who are hereby appointed commissioners for the
purpose aforesaid, who after at least twenty days
notice by publication in the newspapers of Fred-
erick county of the time and place of opening said
subscription books at which time and each place at
least three of the above named commissioners shall
attend and shall permit all persons and corpora-
tions who shall offer to subscribe in person or by
attorney for stock in said books, which shall be
kept open at least four hours in each day for three
successive days if necessary, and if the whole of the
capital be not subscribed for, the said commission-
ers may re-open said books at such time and place
as they may think fit under the direction of said
commissioners or any three of them for further
subscriptions from time to time until the whole of
said stock shall be subscribed for.

Commission-
ers to open
books, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when three-
fourths of the shares of said stock shall have been
subscribed for, the said commissioners or a majori-
ty of them, who opened said subscription books,
shall give thirty days notice in two newspapers
published in Frederick county, of the time and
place appointed by them for the subscribers to meet
in order to organize said company, and to choose
by a majority of the votes of said subscribers by

Organization.