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have fixed upon said scite, cause a survey to be
made thereof; and return the same together with a
statement of their proceedings under their hands and
seals to the clerks of Cecil and Harford county
courts, there to be recorded, and the said scite so
fixed upon by the said commissioners or a majority
of them, shall be the scite for the said bridge.
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Capital stock
— shares.
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2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That William
Willson, John Moores, Samuel Bradford, John
Stump, Junr. Stevenson Archer and James Steven-
son for Harford county; Robert Evans, Senr. Hugh
Beard, James Evans, John Creswell, Ellis Chand-
lee, James Janney, Cyrus Oldham, James Magraw
and Thomas Williams for Cecil county, and Thomas
Kell, James Carroll, Joseph Townsend, William
Wilson and John Barney, Senr. for Baltimore city
and county, be, and they are hereby appointed com-
missioners with full power and authority to open or
cause to be opened, books for receiving and enter-
ing subscriptions for raising a capital stock not ex-
ceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in
shares, of fifty dollars each, for the purpose of build-
ing a bridge over the river Susquehannah at such place
on the said river as the commissioners before named
shall fix upon to be the scite aforesaid.
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Subscription
books— where
to be opened—
under whose
direction.
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3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the com-
missioners aforesaid for the city and county of Balti-
more or any two of them, shall open the said books
in the city of Baltimore, at some convenient place by
them determined, and that the three first named com-
missioners aforesaid or a majority of them, for Ce-
cil county, shall open the like books at Elkton; and
the next three named commissioners or a majority
of them shall open the like books at the Rising Sun;
and the three last named commissioners aforesaid or
a majority of them shall open the like books at Port
Deposit in the said county; and that the three first
named commissioners aforesaid or a majority of
them for Harford county, shall open the like books at
the town of Belle-Air; and the three last named
commissioners aforesaid or a majority of them, shall
open the like books at Havre-de-Grace in Harford
county; the times and manner of receiving and enter-
ing such subscriptions to be fixed upon by the said
boards of commissioners in their respective counties,
and duly advertised in so many news-papers as they
may deem expedient, and to continue the same by
adjournments in the same manner as they shall deem
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