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Dec. Ses. 1824
Elections.
Privileges
vested.
Congress au-
thorised to
subscribe.
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manner following, to wit: one fifth part thereof, (including the one
dollar paid to the commissioners at the time of subscribing) at the
end of one month after the election of the managers, and the re-
mainder in such sums, and at such times and places, as the presi-
dent and managers shall appoint, they giving at least thirty days
notice of the payments so required in the news papers afore-
said.
5. And be it enacted, That the managers first elected as aforesaid,
shall hold their seats until the first Monday which shall happen in
the month of January next following the election, to be made
agreeably to the mode prescribed as aforesaid; and upon the first
Monday of January in each and every year thereafter, there shall
be a new election for nine managers who shall on the second Mon-
day of January, proceed to elect their president, and the president
and managers thus elected annually, shall have full power and au-
thority to make, alter or repeal by-laws for their government; pro-
vided always, that they are not inconsistent with or repugnant to
this act, and the laws of this state, or of the United States.
6. And be it enacted, That said company shall be, and are here-
by invested and cloathed with all the privileges, rights, immunities
and advantages which are held and possessed by the turnpike com-
pany, incorporated by an act passed at November Session, eighteen
hundred and nine, entitled, "An Act to incorporate a company to
make a turnpike road from near Ellicots lower mills, towards
George Town in the District of Columbia," to be governed by the
same regulations, as are therein prescribed, and be entitled to the
same tolls, and every clause and provisions of the said act, relative
to the road therein proposed, to be made so far as the same are ap-
plicable and not inconsistent with this act.
7. And be it enacted, That the Congress of the United States,
be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to subscribe
for any number of shares of stock in the said company nut ex-
ceeding sixteen hundred shares upon the same terms as other sub-
scribers-are authorised to take and subscribe for the same.
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Passed Feb.
26, 1825.
Declaration.
Repeal.
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CHAPTER 205.
An act for the relief of the Jews in Maryland.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That every citizen of this state professing the Jewish Re-
ligion, and who shall hereafter be appointed to any office or public
trust under the state of Maryland, shall in addition to the oaths
required to be taken by the constitution and laws of the state, or of
the United States, make and subscribe a declaration of his belief
in a future state of rewards and punishments, in the stead of the
declaration now required by the constitution and form of govern-
ment of this state,
2. And be it enacted, That the several clauses and sections of
the declaration of rights, constitution and form of government,
and every part of any law of this state contrary to the provisions
of this act, so far as respects the sect of people aforesaid, shall be,
and the, same is hereby declared to be repealed and annulled on the
confirmation hereof.
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