1847.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 100.

Passed
Feb. 15, 1848.

CHAPTER 100.

An act to incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike
Road, commencing at the forks of Hagerstown and
Leitersburg Turnpike Road, in Washington County,
to be located on the bed of the Old Marsh Road leading
to the Pennsylvania line.

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a company be incorporated to make a
turnpike road, commencing at the forks of Hagerstown
and Leitersburg turnpike road, in Washington county,
to be located on the bed of the Old Marsh Road, leading
to the Pennsylvania line, to be located by the president
and managers that may hereafter be chosen under this
act, upon the bed of the road aforesaid.

Commission-
ers appointed
to open books.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That subscription books be
opened for a capital stock of five thousand five hundred
dollars, in shares of ten dollars each, and that subscrip-
tions be taken in said county, under the direction of
Richard Raggan, Junior, Jacob B. Layman, T. C.
B. Williams, D. Brumbough, Junior, Daniel Miller,
Peter Elshanan and Washington Berry, or any three
of them, who are hereby appointed commissioners for
the purpose aforesaid, who shall, on or before the first
day of August next, procure books and in each enter as
follows, to wit: we whose names are hereinto sub-
scribed, do promise to pay to the president and mana-
gers of the said road the sum of ten dollars for every
share of stock in said turnpike company, set opposite

Notice to be
given.

to our respective names, and the said commissioners
shall give notice in some one of the newspapers in
Hagerstown, for two weeks at least, of the time when,
and the place where the said books will be open to re-
ceive subscriptions of stock for 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 subscribe, 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, and the said commis-
sioners may adjourn from time to time, until the number
of shares shall be respectively subscribed, giving such
notice of said adjournment as may by them be deemed
necessary, and when the said subcriptions shall insaid
books amount to the said respective number aforesaid,
the same shall be closed.