1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 324.

gers of the Black Rock Turnpike Road Company, the
sum of twenty-five dollars for every share of stock in the
said company set opposite to our respective names; wit
ness our hands this day of eigh-
teen hundred and and shall give notice in some

Give notice.

one of the newspapers printed at Baltimore, for two weeks
at least, of the time when and the place where the said
books will be open to receive subscriptions of stock for
the said company, at which time and place, at least two
of the said respective commissioners shall attend, and
shall permit and suffer all persons who shall offer to sub-
scribe in person or by attorney duly authorised in the
said books, which shall be kept open for that purpose at
least four hours every day, Sundays excepted, for the space
of three days, if three days shall be necessary; provided

Provisoes.

nevertheless, that the said commissioners shall not permit
any one person or company to subscribe for more than
twenty shares in the said company during the first day
in which said books shall be opened; and if after the ex-
piration of the said three days, the said books shall not
have for the said road the full number subscribed, the
said commissioners may adjourn from time to time, until
the number or shares shall be respectively subscribed,
giving such notice of said adjournment as may by them
be deemed necessary; and when the said subscriptions
shall in said books, shall amount to the said respective
numbers aforesaid, the same shall be closed; provided
always, that every person offering to subscribe in the said
book shall upon subscribing, pay to the attending com-
missioners one dollar for every share to be subscribed,
Out of which shall be defrayed the expense attending the
taking such subscription and other incidental charges;
and the remainder shall be deposited in such bank as
may-be convenient to the commissioners, for the use of
the company aforesaid, as soon as the same shall be or-
ganized and the officers chosen as hereafter mentioned.

One hundred
and twenty
shares of stock
subscribed —
give 2 weeks
notice.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That, when one hundred
and twenty shares or more of the said stock in the said
company shall have been subscribed, the said commis-
sioners heretofore named, shall give two weeks notice
in the paper aforesaid, of the time and place by them ap-
pointed for the subscribers to meet, in older to organize
the said corporation, awl to choose by a majority of the
votes of the said subscribers by ballot, a president, eight
managers, a treasurer and such other officers as may be
deemed necessary to conduct the business of the said
company, until the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred