WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1840.

such materials or land required by the said company; and
the said jurors shall, after valueing said damages, return the
same under their hands and seals, to the clerk of Frederick
county court, to be by him recorded; and said damages
shall be paid by the company into the hands of the sheriff
of said county for the persons mentioned in said return re-
spectively, before the said company shall proceed to re-
move said materials, or use the said land for the said road;

CHAP. 172.

Damages.

the justice, sheriff and clerk shall be entitled to receive the
same fees for services rendered under this act as they are
allowed on similar cases; and the persons summoned as
jurors shall each receive one dollar per day during their

Compensation
of sheriff, &c.

attendance; which fees and allowances shall be paid by the
company, and the said company or their agents, shall have
power to remove said materials across any land not in mea-
dow or grain, upon paying a reasonable compensation to
the owner or owners for any injury or damages, to be as-
certained by a jury as above, in case the same cannot bo

How paid.

obtained by agreement.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That for making said road,
subscription books for a capital stock of fifty thousand, in
twenty-five hundred shares at twenty dollars each, to be
opened in Middletown, Jefferson and Petersville, by or un-

Open books of
subscription.

Shares $20.

der the direction of all or any of the following commis-
sioners, to wit: Jacob Baer, John Keefauver of G., Thomas
Springer, John Young, Israel Ramsburg, Jacob Grove,
John Keefauver, Jacob Thomas, Daniel Rontsong, John
McKenney, Christian Ramsburg, Adam Keller, John Bow-
lus, Henry Culler, Thomas Johnson, William Lakin, Jacob
Feaster, senior, Sebastian Ramsburg, junior, John Lee,
Benedict Boone, Jeremiah G. Morrison, John Keller and
Erasmus Garrett, on the first Monday in April next, and

Commissioners.

continue open for three days inclusive; and in the event of
two thousand five hundred shares of said stock not being
subscribed for at the expiration of the said three days in
the manner hereinafter provided, that then, and in that
event, the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are
hereby authorised and empowered to cause said books to
be opened at such times or places as they, or a majority of
them shall think proper, until the managers of the compa-

nies are elected, in the manner hereinafter mentioned, un-
less in the mean time, the capital stock of fifty thousand
dollars be subscribed for.

If 2500 shares
be not subscri-
bed, &c.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That when twelve hundred
and fifty shares of said stock shall have been subscribed
for, the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them,

Meeting of sub-
scribers.