1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 340.

Passed Mar. 20,
1840.

CHAPTER 340.

An act to incorporate The Jennings' Valley Rail Road and
Turnpike Company.

Individuals in-
corporated.

Name and style.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That J. L. Skinner, R. C. Wrightman, John
Powell, William Ridgely, Joseph Dilley, Charles Wil-
liams, John R. Nourse, and those who shall hereafter be-
come connected with them in this company, shall be and
they are hereby constituted and made a body corporate
and politic, by the name and style of the Jennings' Val-
ley Rail Road and Turnpike Company, and as such shall
have succession, may have a common seal at their dis-
cretion, may sue and be sued, may do and suffer all acts,
may exercise all the powers and rights, and be subject to
all the appropriate incidents belonging to such corporations,
for the purpose and under the limitations hereinafter named.

Capital stock.

Objects defined.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said company shall.
have power to create a stock of one thousand shares, of one
hundred dollars each, in such manner as shall be found most
convenient, for the purpose of constructing and keeping
in repair a rail road in Jennings' Valley, from the head
thereof, Frostburg, till it shall intersect the Baltimore and
Ohio Rail Road at Wills Creek, a distance of about eight
miles, and also of constructing and keeping in repair a
good macademized turnpike from the national load at
Frostburg, down through said valley, and that of Wills
creek, till it intersects the national road at the gorge
of Wills Mountain, taking in the piece of the Somer-
set road below Pennsylvania line, being about two
miles, making in all about twelve miles of said turnpike,
the road from Pennsylvania line to Somerset having been
already made by a company incorporated in Pennsylvania.

Commissioners
to open books
of subscription.

Notice required.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said J. L. Skin-
ner, R. C. Wrightman, and others named with them, shall
have power, they or a majority of them as commissioners,
to open books for the subscription of stock in said com-
pany, at any time after the first day of April next, for the
term of three years, first giving due notice thereof in the
papers of Cumberland, and in one of the papers of Ha-
gerstown, Frederick and Washington city, and Baltimore,

under such regulations as may be expedient and proper;
and as soon as all the one thousand shares shall have been
subscribed, and one dollar is paid thereon, the said com-
pany shall be authorised to go into operation.