1846.

LAWS Of MARYLAND.

CHAP. 208.

to issue any note, token, device, scrip or other evidence
of debt to be used as a currency.

Enure for 20
years.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act of incorpo-
ration shall enure for twenty years from its passage, and
that the Legislature reserves to itself the right to alter
or annul this act of incorporation at pleasure.

CHAPTER 208.

Passed March
4, 1847.

Incorporated.

An act to incorporate the Conowingo Bridge Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a company for the purpose of building

a bridge over the Susquehanna river, at or near Cono-
wingo, in Cecil county be, and is hereby incorporated by
the name of the Conowingo Bridge Company, and that
said company may raise by subscription, in shares, of
twenty dollars each, capital stock to an amount not ex-
ceeding sixty thousand dollars, and make all contracts
necessary for building said bridge, and keeping the same
in repair, may sue and be sued, make and have a com-
mon seal, and appoint all agents and servants, and ac-
quire all the property necessary fot effectuating the pur-
poses of the incorporation.

President and
directors ap-
pointed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That John Kirk, of Lan-
caster county, is hereby appointed president of said com-
party, and that Henry McVey, of Lancaster county, Ab-
solom Roman, of Cecil counly, Henry Weley and Wil-

liam B. Bond, of Harford county, are hereby appointed
directors of said company, to hold until a president and
directors shall be elected as herein directed.

Receive sub-
scription for
stock.

Give 30 days
notice.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said president and
directors may appoint commissioners or agents to receive
subscriptions for the stock of said company, and when
one thousand shares of said stock shall have been sub-
scribed, the said president and directors shall give thirty
days notice to the stockholders, to meet at some place
convenient to the site of the contemplated bridge, and
elect a president and four directors, each stockhold-
er to have one vote in person or by proxy in writing, for
each share of stock he may hold, the persons receiving,
a plurality of votes to be considered as elected, and the
persons so elected, to hold until a new election of presi-
dent and directors is held, and that a new election shall