PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

from one part of his farm to another, or militia-men on
the days of training, or voters going or returning from
the polls, shall be chargeable with tolls.

CHAP. 492.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That said company shall
be and they are hereby invested and clothed with all
the rights, privileges, immunities, and advantages,which
are held and possessed by the Turnpike Road company,
incorporated by an act passed at November session,
eighteen hundred and twelve, entitled, an act to incor-
porate a company to make a turnpike road, from the
District of Columbia, to the city of Baltimore, and be
entitled to the same tolls.

Corporate
powers.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That any corporation or
body politic may become stockholders in said company.
SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That in case the said
company shall not, be able to agree with the owner or
owners of any land over or through whose lands the
said road may be made, it shall be lawful for said com-
pany to cause any justice of the peace of Harford
county, to issue his warrant to the sheriff, directing
him to summon twelve impartial jurors, to meet on the
said land, on a day to be therein named, to assess the
damages sustained by said owner or owners, by reason
of said road passing through such land, or for the tak-
ing of stone, gravel, earth or other material for the
making of said road, which inquisition shall be re-
turned to the clerk's office, and either party shall have
the right of appeal to the county court, from the ver-
dict or finding of said jury, within sixty days from the

date of said verdict.

Other corpora-
tions may be-
come members.
When lands,
are required.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That if the Baltimore
and Harford Turnpike company, shall extend their road
from its present terminus, in the direction of the town
of Bel-Air, that the commissioners of Baltimore am.
Harford counties respectively, are hereby authorised and
empowered to release the said company from any obli-
gation on the part of said company to pay to the said
counties respectively, for the opening of any road over
and upon which the said company shall so make the
extension of their road as aforesaid, or for any bridge or
bridges over which the said extension may be so made.

Extension of

road.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the commis-
sioners of Harford county are hereby authorised to sub-
scribe for stock of the company created and erected by
this act, not. exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars

Commissioners
of Harford
county may

subscribe.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
contained, shall be so construed as to authorise the cor-
poration hereby created, to exercise any banking privi-
leges , or to issue any paper to be used as currency, and

Banking forbid.