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or proper for exercising all the powers, rights and privi-
leges vested in said company, or in said managers, or
for the performance of the duties required of them by
this act; and the said by-laws from time time to time to
alter or repeal, subject nevertheless to the revision of
the stockholders at a general meeting as hereinbefore
provided.
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Construction
of road.
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SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the said company
are hereby invested with all the powers and authority
necessary for the construction of a turnpike road be-
tween the termini mentioned in the first section of this
act, to be constructed of such materials as the president
and board of managers, chosen under the provisions of
this act, shall direct, which road shall be of the width
of sixty-six feet, of which at least eighteen feet shall be
composed of broken stone, gravel or other hard sub-
stance, with good and sufficient bridges over any stream
crossing the same, and in order that the route or intend-
ed course of said road may be known to all concerned
with as much precision as possible; Be it further enact-
ed, That said road shall commence, as aforesaid, at the
present northern termination of Charles street, and,
shall run thence in a direct line with said street, ex-
tended in a direction about due north until it reaches
or approximates the northern outline of a farm in said
county, known as Clover Hill, the property of Joseph
Merryman and others, thence diverging to the west or
northwest in a line parallel with the dividing line be-
tween said farm and the land of the late General — Mc-
Donald, it shall pursue the last named course until it
crosses or passes near the extreme southwestern corner of
said General — McDonald's land, thence resuming its
northern direction, or nearly so, to run across the land
of Jeremiah Tittle, until it reaches the road known as
the Cold Spring Road, thence crossing said road, still
pursuing the same course, to run over or along the
lands of the following persons, to wit; first, over the
southwest corner of David S. Wilson's land to the land
of Emanuel Crocker, thence across said Crocker's land,
until it strikes the dividing line between William Broad-
bent and Doctor Benjamin W. Woods, on the one
side, and the land owned and occupied by an institu-
tion, known as the Orphans' Home, on the other,
thence along said dividing line as far as it extends,
thence across the lands of said orphans' home to the
dividing line between the lands of David M. Perine
and the said orphans' home, thence along said dividing
line to the dividing line between the lands of said Pe-
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