LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1844.

more and Frederick Turnpike Road, and to stop any per-
son riding, leading or driving any horses, mules, oxen,
coaches, cart, wagon, wain or sled, cattle, hogs, sheep,
sulkey, chair, chaise, phaeton, or other carriage of pleasure
or burden, from passing through the said gates, until the
toll for the said passage shall have been paid; provided,
that no toll-gate shall be erected within one mile from the
taxable limits of Frederick City, Emmettsburg, or any
other town or village through which said road may pass,
or within one quarter of a mile thereof.

CHAP. 13

Proviso.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the company hereby
incorporated shall have the power and remedy for using
the road, or refusal to pay toll, or fraud practised, as are
given by the act incorporating the Baltimore and Frede-
rick Turnpike Company, and shall be subject to the same
proceedings and penalty in case the said road is not kept
in repair, as are provided in the act incorporating said
Baltimore and Frederick Turnpike Company.

Power and re-
medy for using
road.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That the president and
managers of said company, shall keep a fair and just ac-
count of all monies received by them from the said com-
missioners, and from the subscribers to the said under-
taking, an account of the several subscriptions, and also
all money expended by them in the prosecution of their
said work, and shall once at least in every year, submit
such account to a general meeting of the stockholders,
until the road shall be completed, and until all the costs,
charges and expense of effecting the same shall be fully
paid and discharged, and the aggregate amount of such
expenses shall be liquidated and ascertained; and if upon
such liquidation, or when the capital stock shall be ex-
pended, it shall and may be lawful for the president, man-

President and
managers to
keep a just ac-
count of all
monies.

agers and company to enlarge the capital stock of said
company, to such an extent as shall be deemed sufficient
to accomplish the work, and receive subscriptions on the
original terras, as before provided for, in the second, third
and fourth sections of this act.

Enlarge capi-
tal stock.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That the said company
shall cause mile stones to be placed at the side of said
load, beginning at the distance of one mile from the
southern end of the road, and extending thence to the ter-
mination of the said road, whereon shall be marked, in
plain legible characters, the number of miles which each
stone is distant from the city of Frederick; and if any
person shall wilfully destroy the said mile stones, or de-
face the same, or shall, without the permission of the act-
ing superintendents of the said road, throw out upon the
road, and suffer to remain for the space of one day, any

Mile stones to
be placed on
side of road,