LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1842

are vested in the said Cumberland and Somerset Turnpike
Road Company, by the act of incorporation aforesaid.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the tolls to be collected
on the turnpike road authorized to be constructed under
this act, shall be regulated and proportioned from time to
time by the tolls exacted by the said Cumberland and So-
merset turnpike road company, and that it shall be the duty
of the president and directors of the said Maryland and
New York Iron and Coal Company to keep said road in

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Tolls to be re-
gulated.

good repair, provided, the tolls authorized to be collected
thereon, from time to time, be sufficient for that purpose
after deducting the current expenses of the road, and if
said road shall not he kept in good repair, the president
and directors shall be liable to indictment for their neglect
in Allegany county court, to be prosecuted at the suit of the
State of Maryland, and if on the trial of such indictment
said president and directors shall not make it appear that
they have applied the whole tolls to the expenses and the
repairs of said road, and it. shall be found that said road is
not kept in good repair, then the judgment of the courts
shall be that the said road he forfeited to Allegany county,
and it shall thenceforth be used &c. as the ordinary county
roads, and shall be subject to the laws applicable to such
roads.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 182.

An act to incorporate the Society for the relief of the In-
digent Sick of the City of Baltimore.

Passed Feb.
27, 1843.

WHEREAS certain benevolent females of the City of Bal-
timore, on the third day of February, eighteen hundred and
twenty-four formed themselves into a society called The
Society for the relief of the Indigent Sick, the object of
which is to relieve the sick poor of the said city, by rais-
ing a fund by annual subscriptions and donations from the
charitable, and in order the. more effectual to accomplish
the benevolent purposes aforesaid, and to secure the fund
which has been raised and provided with all future acces-
sions thereto, by gift, legacy, devise or otherwise, it is
deemed expedient to create and make the said institution a
society or body politic — therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the female members of the society for the
relief of the indigent sick, as well as those who shall

Incorporated.