|
|
bridge at M'Call's ferry, and from thence to Baltimore,
have enacted as follows:
Section. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania in General Assembly met,and it is hereby enact
ed by the authority of the same, That Eanston Perrott,
Paul Beck, William Sansom, Jacob Downing, William
Davidson and James Taylor of the city of Philadelphia,
Edward Brien, John Neff, Nathaniel W. Sample, Ru-
dolph Kegey of the county of Lancaster in the state of
Pennsylvania, and General Charles Ridgely of Hamp-
ton, Benjamin Ellicott, James Carroll, Luke Tiernan,
Henry Payson, William Wilson, John M'Kim, Junr.
Robert Miller, James Carey and Charles Jessop of the
city of Baltimore in the state of Maryland, be, and they
hereby are appointed commissioners to do and perform
the several things hereinafter mentioned, that is to say—
They shall on or before the first Monday in July next,
procure one or more books, and in each of them enter
as follows: we whose names are hereunto subscribed do
promise to pay to the president, managers and company
of the Baltimore and Strasburg turnpike road, the sum
of one hundred dollars for every share of stock in the said
company set opposite to our respective names in such man-
ner and proportions, & at such times as shall be determin-
ed by the president and managers of the said company,
in pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, confirmed by the Gen-
eral Assembly of the state of Maryland, entitled, an act
to enable the governor of this commonwealth to incor-
porate a company for making an artificial road by the
best and nearest route from the Philadelphia and Lan-
caster turnpike road through the village of Strasburg to
the Susquehanna bridge at M'Call's ferry, and from
thence to the city of Baltimore. Witness our hands the
day of in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
and shall thereupon give notice in two or more of the
public papers printed in the city of Philadelphia, two in
the city of Baltimore, and two in the borough of Lan-
caster, for one calender month at least of the times and
places when and where the said books shall be open to
receive subscriptions for the stock of the said company,
which is hereby declared to be the sum of two hundred
thousand dollars, divided into two thousand shares of
one hundred dollars each, at which respective times and
places some one or more of the said commissioners shall
attend, and shall permit all persons of lawful age, bodies
corporate and politic who shall offer to subscribe in the
said books in their own name or names of any other per-
sons, who shall duly authorise the same, for any number
of shares in the said stock: and the said books shall be
16
|
Dec. Sess.
1813.
Commission-
ers. Subscrip-
tion books to
be opened.
Amount of
capital. Shares.
|
|
