FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act shall
be so construed as to authorize the holding of more than
two acres of land, unless provided for by a special act of
Assembly.

CHAP. 198.

Not hold
more than, 2
acres.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act be
construed so as to authorize the said corporation to issue
any note, token, device, scrip, or other evidence of debt, to
be used as a currency.

Banking for-
bid.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall inure for
thirty years from its passage, and that the legislature re-
serves to itself the right to alter or annul this act of incor-
poration at pleasure.

In force

CHAPTER 198.

An act to authorize the straightening a Road therein men-
tioned.

Passed March
3, 1842.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the citizens of Worcester and Somerset
counties, immediately interested, be and they are hereby au-
thorized to straighten so much of the public road leading
from Saulsbury to the line of Delaware, as they may de-
sire, it being the divisional line between the said counties;

Streighten
road.

provided, that no person through whose lands it does now,
or shall then run shall object to the alteration.

Proviso

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That Jacob Rigger, William
Williams, William T. Wood, George Brewington and Ro-
bert W. Ellegood, be and they are hereby appointed com-
missioners to view and lay out said road if in their judg-
ments it will be for the public convenience, and private
good.

Commission-
ers.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That if the said commission-
ers or a majority of them shall agree to the change of said
road, then they shall cause a plat of the old road, and also
of the place where the new one is to be located, to be made
out, and when they the said commissioners, or a majority
of them shall agree that the new road is done, and is in
good and sufficient order for the use of the public, then
they shall return the said plat with their certificate of the
whole proceedings to the commissioners of Somerset coun-
ty, who shall cause the same to be recorded amongst the
records of the said county, and from that time the said new
road shall be kept in repair as the old road has heretofore
been kept.

To make out
plat.