1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 513.

CHAPTER 513.

Passed
March 7, 1850.

An act to incorporate the Kellville and Joppa Cross
Roads Turnpike Road Company, in Harford
county.

Company to
make turnpike

road.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That a company be incorporated to make
a turnpike road, commencing at the village of Kellville,
situated at the intersection, of the road leading from Je-
rusalem Mills, to Abingdon, by the White House and
Joppa road, and running thence to Joppa Cross Roads,
situated at the intersection of the said White House and
Joppa road, by the Baltimore and Havre de Grace Turn-
pike Road, using as far as practicable, the bed of that
portion of the said White House and Joppa road, be-
tween Kellville and Joppa Cross Roads.

Commissioners
to receive sub-
scriptions.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That subscription books
be opened for a capital stock of two thousand dollars, in
shares of ten dollars each, under the direction of R. S.
Lee, C. C. Rouse, G. W. Kenly, James Spicer, T.
Brazier, R. J. Spicer, E. H. Beans, J. T. Spicer, A.
Spicer, Upton Reid, J. Paul, J. S. Davidson, D. M.
Cunningham, R. N. Cunningham, J. C. Walsh, J. F.
Dixon, J. K. Carrington, J. H. Lewis, and T. Kemp,
or any two of them, who are hereby appointed commis-
sioners for the purpose aforesaid, who shall give at least
two weeks public notice, in any mode they may see fit,
of the time when, and the place where the said books
will be opened to receive subscriptions of stock; for said
company, at which time and place at least two of said
commissioners shall attend, and shall permit all persons
to subscribe, in person or by attorney duly authorised, in
the said books, which shall be kept open for that pur-
pose, at least four hours every day, Sundays excepted,
for the space of thirty days, if thirty days shall be ne-
cessary.

General meet-
ings — how and
when called.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when one hun-
dred shares or more of the said stock shall have been
subscribed, the said commissioners shall give two weeks
public notice as aforesaid, of the time and place by them
appointed for the subscribers to meet, in order to organise
said corporation, and, to choose, by a majority of the
votes of said subscribers, by ballot, to be delivered in
person or by proxy duly authorised, seven managers from
among the stockholders to conduct the business of said
company until the first Tuesday in January, eighteen
hundred and fifty-one, and until their successors shall