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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 77.

Passed Febru-
ary 23, 1858.

A SUPPLEMENT TO AN ACT to incorporate
a Company to make a Turnpike Road in Wash-
ington County, commencing at the forks of the
Hagerstown and Leitersburg Turnpike Road
in Washington County, leading to the Penn-
sylvania line, passed December session, eigh-
teen hundred and forty-seven, chapter one hun-
dred and sixty; and also an act passed at the
December session, eighteen hundred and forty-
nine, chapter two hundred and fifty-four.

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That Richard Ragan, Jacob B.
Lahman, F. C. B. Williams, Peter Eshelman,
Washington L. Berry, Z. S. Cleggett and Joseph
P. Mong, and all other persons who may here-
after subscribe to the stock of said Company, be
and they are hereby incorporated a body politic
for making a Turnpike Road, to be commenced
at the forks of the Hagerstown and Leitersburg
Turnpike and the old Marsh Road leading to the
Pennsylvania line, to be located by the president
and managers that may hereafter be chosen under
this act, upon the bed of the road aforesaid.

Capital stock.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital
stock of said company shall not exceed fifteen
thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of
twenty-five dollars each; and as soon as subscri-
bers to said stock amounting to five thousand
dollars are obtained, a majority so subscribing
shall give two weeks publication in one or more
newspapers published in Hagerstown, of the time
and place designated by them for the stockholders
of said company to meet for the purpose of organi-
zing said corporation, choosing by a plurality of
votes by ballot, a president and five managers,
three of whom shall constitute a quorum; and
they shall select in the same manner by ballot, a
treasurer and such other officers as they shall
deem necessary for conducting the affairs of said
company, until the first Monday in December
thereafter, and until a new election shall be held ;
which said election shall be held annually on the