THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

same, except by the special permission of the president
and directors of said company, and when the said com-
pany shall he organized the amount due upon the sub-
scriptions to its capital stock shall be paid in instalments,
at such times as the president and directors may require

CHAP. 248.

the same to be paid, they giving at least sixty days no-
tice of the demand of any instalment, in at least one paper
published in the city of Baltimore, Cecil county and Kent
county, Maryland; and in default of payment of any in-
stalment, the president and directors may offer at public

Sixty days no-
tice.

sale so many of the shares in default, as may be sufficient
to discharge the sum then due on the same, and the pur-
chaser thereof, shall hold the same, subject to the same
regulations, and with the same rights, as if they had been
originally subscribed by him.

Public sale.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That if the said company
do not organise and pet into operation within three years
from the passage of this act, then the authority under
this act to organize and carry on the same, shall wholly
cease and be void.

Organize in 3
years.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the said company as
soon as it is got into operation, shall cause their boats to
stop at least two places in Kent county, Maryland, and
at least five places in Cecil county, Maryland, and other
places, as the president and directors of said company
may from time to time direct, and shall transport all
kinds of country produce, and persons or property of
every description, to or from the city of Baltimore, or to
and from the city of Philadelphia, upon the payment to
the said company, or their agents, of freight or passage,
in conformity with a tariff that shall from time to time be
established by the president and directors of said com-

Stop at two
places in Kent
county, and 5
in Cecil coun-
ty.

pany; provided, that grain shall not be charged for its
transportation from the waters of the Chesapeake bay to
Baltimore city, or from the waters of the Chesapeake to
Philadelphia city, not including canal charges to the lat-
ter, over four cents per bushel for wheat, or over three
cents per bushel for corn or oats; that passengers from
or to the stopping places of the company's boats on the
waters of the Chesapeake bay, not to be charged over
one dollar passage, either to Baltimore city or Philadel-
phia city, canal regulations to the latter city not includ-
ed, the tariff on all other articles to be regulated by the
president and directors.

Proviso.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the said company
shall appoint true and trusty agents, captains and ser-
vants, and that all grain, marketing or other articles of

Appoint trust
agents, &c.