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A subscripti-
on shall be o-
pened — a-
mount of capi-
tal — under
whose direc-
tion, &c.
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SEC 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That a company shall be incor-
porated for making a turnpike road from the district
of Columbia to the city of Baltimore; and for making
the said road a subscription shall be opened for a cap-
ital of one hundred thousand dollars, in shares of fifty
dollars each, under the direction of George Calvert,
Richard Ross, Thomas Bowie and William Fitzger-
ald, at Bladensburgh; Archibald Dorsey, Richard G.
Stockett, John S. Belt and Thomas Lee, Junr. at
M'Coy's tavern; and William Lorman, Henry Pay-
son, George Lindenberger and Jacob Giles Smith, in
the city of Baltimore; who shall for this purpose, on
or before the third Monday of January next, procure
a book, and in it enter as follows, to wit: " We
whose names are hereunto subscribed, do promise to
pay to the president, managers and company of the
Washington and Baltimore turnpike road, the sum of
fifty dollars for each and every share of stock in the
said company set opposite our names, agreeably to
an act of assembly of the state of Maryland entitled.
An act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike
road from the District of Columbia to the city of Bal-
timore. Witness our hands this day of
eighteen hundred and; and shall
give notice in such news-papers of the cities of Balti-
more and Washington, as they may see proper, for at
least one month, of the time when, and the places
where the said book will be open to receive subscripti-
ons for the stock of the said company; at each of which
places two at least of the said persons named as man-
agers shall attend to receive subscriptions, and permit
all persons to subscribe in the said book, in person, or
by attorney duly authorised; and the said book shall
be kept open four hours in each day for three days;
and if at the expiration of the said three first days, the
whole number of shares shall not be subscribed, the
said commissioners may adjourn from time to time
until the whole number shall be subscribed; of which
adjournment public notice shall be given in such
news-papers as they shall judge proper, in the cities of
Baltimore and Washington; and every person sub-
scribing for the stock of the said company, shall pay to
the attending commissioners, five dollars for every
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