PHILIP P. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

CHAPTER 196.

CHAP. 196.

An act to incorporate the Liberty and Franklin Plank
or Turnpike Road Company.

Passed Feb. 27,
1850.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a company be incorporated to make
a plank or turnpike road, from the intersection of
Dead Run and Gwinn's Falls, on or near the Frank-
lin plank or turnpike road, beginning thereat and run-
ning along with and on the bed of the county road
leading to the Franklin factory, thence along the wes-
tern margin of Gwinn's Falls to the Liberty road, be-
ing a distance not exceeding five miles.

Incorporated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That a subscription book
shall be opened, in the city of Baltimore, for capital
stock of twelve thousand dollars, in shares of twenty
dollars each, under the direction of William Orndorff,
John S. Gittings, William Mason, George Reyley,
John Wetherhead, James L. Ridgeley, or any three of
them, who are hereby appointed commissioners for the
purpose aforesaid, who shall, on or before the first day
of July next, give notice in two of the public papers
in Baltimore, for one month at least, of the time when,
and the place where, the said book shall be opened, to
receive subscriptions for the stock of the Liberty and
Franklin plank or turnpike road company, at which
time and place at least three of the said commission-
ers shall attend, and shall permit all persons and cor-
porations who shall offer to subscribe, in person or by
attorney duly authorised, in the said book, which
shall be kept open for that purpose at least four hours
every day, for the space of six days, if six clays shall be

Commissioners
to receive sub-
scriptions.

necessary, provided always, that any person offering
to subscribe in the said book in his own name, or in
the name of any other person, or for any corporation,
shall upon subscribing pay to the attending commis-
sioners one dollar for every share to be subscribed, out
of which shall be defrayed the expense attending the
taking of such subscription and other incidental
charges, and the remainder shall be deposited in such
safe bank as may be most convenient to said commis-
sioners, for the use of the company aforesaid, as soon
as the same shall be organised, and the officers chosen
as hereafter directed.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when three hun-
dred shares or more of the said stock shall have
been subscribed, the said commissioners, or a majori-

When to be

operative.