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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

Dec Ses. 1822

as they shall think best, and shall in general have and exercise all
such rights, franchises, privileges and immunities as by law are in-
cident and necessary to corporations of this kind; and that the said
corporation and their successors shall be forever hereafter able and
capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer
and be answered unto, defend and be defended in all or any courts
of justice, and before all or any judges, officers, or persons whatso-
ever, in all actions, matters, demands and things whatsoever.

Passed Jan,
24, 182: 5.

Preamble.

Commission-
ers, &c.

CHAPTER 81.

An act to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over Severn River
in Anne Arundel county. '
WHEREAS the convenience of the public would be greatly pro-
moted by erecting a bridge over Severn River, and it is expedient to
encourage private enterprise by acts of incorporation, the object of
which is the advancement of the general good; therefore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Man/land
That it shall be lawful to open books at the city of Annapolis under
the direction of Henry Maynadier, Henry H. Harwood, Virgil Max-
cy, George Mackubin, James Mackubin, Lewis Neth, junior, George
Shaw, John A. Grammar, Charles Waters, Henry Mayer and Ho-
ratio Redout, or any two of them; and at the city of Baltimore un-
der the direction of Isaac M'Kim, Reverdy Johnson, Nicholas
Brice, Cumberland Dugan, Thomas Harwood and Thomas Harrison
or any two of them; for receiving and entering subscriptions to the
amount of thirty-five thousand dollars, for the purpose of erecting a
toll bridge over Severn river, at the city of Annapolis; which sum
shall be divided into fourteen hundred shares of twenty-five dollars
each; every person at the time of subscribing shall pay to some one
of the commissioners one dollar upon each share subscribed by him
and the said commissioners shall pay over what they shall respec-
tively receive to the president and directors to be appointed in the
manner hereinafter prescribed.

Book to be
opened, &c.

2. And be it enacted, That the books aforesaid shall be opened in
the cities of Annapolis and Baltimore on the fourth Monday of April
next, or at such other time as the said commissioners may deem best
at such particular houses, in the said places, as the commissioners
aforesaid, in the places aforesaid, may appoint by public notice which
books shall be continued open for four successive days and then be
closed, and as soon as the books shall be closed in the respective
places aforesaid, the commissioners for the city of Baltimore shall
Bend on to the commissioners for the city of Annapolis, the amount
subscribed for in the city of Baltimore, with a list of the subscribers
and if it shall appear that ten thousand dollars or five hundred shares
shall be subscribed for, the said subscribers and stockholders and
those who may thereafter subscribe, shall be, and they are hereby
made a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Severn Bridge
Company, and as such may sue and be sued, implead and be im-
pleaded, and shall have perpetual succession as such.

Election, &c.

3. And be it enacted, That if it shall appear to the said commis-
sioners, that the aforesaid sum of ten thousand dollars, or five hun-
dred shares, have been subscribed for, or whenever that sum or that
number of shares shall be subscribed for, then the said commission-
ers, or such of them as may act, or a majority of such of them as
may act, shall give public notice for a meeting of the stockholders
in the city of Annapolis, who shall in person, or by proxy duly au-