1844.

THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 136.

In force until
1870.

Right reserv-
ed.

ration shall remain in force until the year eighteen hun-
dred and seventy, and until the end of the next General
Assembly thereafter; provided, that nothing in this act
shall be so construed as to deprive any future Legisla-
ture of the right to alter, amend or repeal said act.

CHAPTER 136.

Passed Feb
20, 1845.

An act to incorporate the Frederick and Emmettsburg Turn-
pike Company.

Incorporated

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a company be incorporated to make a
turnpike road From the city of Frederick, or some conve-
nient point on the Frederick and Woodsborough Turn-
pike Road, to Lewistown, Catoctin Furnace, Mechanics-
burg, and thence to Emmettsburg, in Frederick county.

Subscription
books to be
opened

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That subscription books
shall be opened at Emmettsburg, Mechanicstown, Lew-
istown, and Frederick city; and the same shall be open-
ed at Emmettsburg, under the direction of Isaac Baugh-
er, James A. Sherb, Joshua Motter, Felix B. Taney,
find William Patterson; at Mechanicstown, under the
direction of William E. Louders, George Harman, John
Arthur, Henry Renzer, and William Lifton; at Lew-
istown, under the direction of Benjamin Fitzhugh, George
Schlosser, Frederick Cronise, John T. Schley, and Dan-

Capital stock,
$60, 000.

iel Snook; at Frederick city, under the direction of F.
A. Schley, Dr. Wm. Tyler, Richard Potts, Basil Norris,
and Alexander B. Hanson, for a capital stock of sixty
thousand dollars, in shares of twenty dollars each, who
are hereby appointed commissioners for the purpose afore-
said, who after at least twenty days notice by publication
in the several newspapers of Frederick city, of the time
and place of opening said subscription books, at which
time, and at each place, at least three of the above named
commissioners shall attend, and shall permit all persons
and corporations, who shall offer to subscribe in person or
by attorney, for stock in said books, which shall be kept
open for that purpose at least four hours in each day, for
three successive days, if necessary; and if the whole of
the said capital stock be not then subscribed for, the said

May re-open
boots.

Commissioners may re-open said books at such time and
place as they may think fit, under the direction of the said
commissioners or any three of them, for further subscrip-
tions, from time to time, until the whole of said stock be
subscribed for.