1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 160.

corn, more than three cents per bushel, nor more than
two cents per bushel for bone dust, or seventy-five
cents per ton for guano, transported from Baltimore to
the head of tide-water as aforesaid, and that charges
for intermediate distance shall not exceed the same
rates.

CHAPTER 160.

Passed Feb. 22,

1850.

An act to incorporate the Old Road Turnpike Compa-
ny, in Baltimore County.

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a company be incorporated to make
a turnpike road, beginning at the intersection of the
Old Frederick Road with the Frederick Turnpike
Road, near the three mile stone, and over the bed of,
and extending along the said Old Frederick Road,
three miles, to the forks at Widow Croft's.

Commissioners
to receive sub-
scriptions.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That a subscription book
shall be opened in the city of Baltimore, or at any
other place convenient to the road, for capital stock of
six thousand dollars, in shares of twenty dollars each,
under the direction of William Turner, James Beaty,
junior, H. Bogue, J. Jones Griffith, James E. Dorsey,
and John Swan, or any three of them, who are here-
by appointed commissioners for the purpose aforesaid,
who shall, on or before the first day of May next,
give notice in two of the public papers in Baltimore,
for ten days at least, of the time when, and the place
where, the said books will be open, to receive sub-
scriptions for stock of the Old Road Company, at
which times and place at least three of the said re-
spective commissioners shall attend, and shall permit
and suffer all persons and corporations 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, for the space
of four days, if it be necessary.

When to go in-
to operation.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when two hundred
shares or more of the said capital stock shall have
been subscribed, the said commissioners, or a majori-
ty of them, shall, so Soon as convenient, give ten
days notice, in the papers aforesaid, of the time and
place by them appointed for the subscribers to meet,