PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

corporation be and is hereby authorised to construct
the said plank or turnpike road in and on the bed of
the Liberty road, beginning at the Patapsco Palls, and
following the bed of the said Liberty road, so far as is
practicable, with power to diverge therefrom, to inter-
sect the Reisterstown or Franklin road, at some point
or points, as may be deemed proper and expedient, or
to reach the city of Baltimore, by a new route diverg-
ing from said Liberty road, at any point east of Gwyn's
Falls.

CHAP. 179.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That instead of the per-
sons named in the act incorporating the said Balti-

more and Liberty Turnpike Road Company as com-

missioners for opening Books to receive subscriptions
to the capital stock of the same, that William Beam,
Samuel M. Barry, Samuel Ward, John Miller, Town
send Randall, John Russell, David Jean, Henry
Frontz, James L. Ridgley, Thomas Meredith, and
Edward Griffith, be and are hereby appointed as such
commissioners, any three of whom, having first given
reasonable notice in three or more public places on the
line of the said road, of the time and place appointed
for that purpose, may open books at Randallstown, in
Baltimore county, to receive subscriptions for stock in
the said plank or turnpike road company, and shall
permit all persons and corporations, who shall offer to
subscribe in the said books to make such subscrip-
tions, and shall, tor that purpose, continue said books
open from day to day, until at least five hundred
shares of the said stock, at the par value of ten dol-
lars per share, shall have been subscribed, the capital
stock of which shall be twenty-five thousand dollars,
and shall continue open from time to time, as the
commissioners may permit, until the whole amount
is subscribed.

Commissioners
to receive sub-
sriptions.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when five hun-
dred shares or more of the said stock shall have been
subscribed, the said commissioners, or a majority of
them, shall give twenty days notice of the time and
place by them appointed for the subscribers to meet
and organize the said company, and to choose, by a
majority of votes of the said subscribers, by ballot, in
person, or by proxy duly authorised, twelve managers
from among the stockholders, to conduct the business
of the said company, until the first day of January,
eighteen hundred and fifty one, and until their suc-
cessors shall be elected, in the manner provided by
the original act incorporating said Baltimore and

First election
—when to be
held.