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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Sess.
1813.

Proviso.

and regulations as may be necessary for assuring and
carrying into effect the benevolent purposes of this act;
Provided such rules and regulations shall not contravene
or be repugnant to the constitution and laws of this
state, or of the United States.

Rights, pri-

ileges and fran-

chises.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said corpo-
ration and their successors by the name aforesaid, shall
be forever thereafter able and capable in law to sue and
be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answer-
ed unto, defend and be defended, in all or any court of
justice, and before all or any judges, officers or persons
whatsoever, in all and singular actions, matters or de-
mands whatsoever; and that it shall and may be lawful
for them and their successors forever thereafter, to have
and keep a common seal for their use, and the same at
their will, and pleasure of them and their successors, to
change, alter, break and make new from time to time
as they shall think best; and shall in general have and ex-
ercise all such rights, franchises, privileges and immuni-
ties, as by law are incident and necessary to corporations
of tin's kind; and what may be necessary to corporations
of this kind, and what may be necessary to the corpora-
tion herein constituted, to enable them duly and fully in
law, to execute all things touching and concerning the
design and intent of their said corporation, for the bene-
volent succour and the relief of such distressed and de-
serving citizen as the regulations and bye laws shall au-
thorise, and to effect the end of their institution, requires.

CHAPTER 144.

Passed Jan.
2, 1814.

Company in-
corporated.

An act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike
road from Edward H. Calvert's Old Mill in Prince
George's county to the District of Columbia.
Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General, Assem-
bly of Maryland, That a company shall be incorporated
to make a turnpike road from Edward H. Calvert's Old
Mill in Prince George's county to the District of Co-
lumbia.

Subscription
books opened.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscription
books shall be opened on or before the first Monday of
March next, at Upper Marlboro in Prince George's coun-
ty, for a capital stock for said company of eight thou-
sand dollars, in four hundred shares of twenty dollars
each, under the direction of the following commission-
ers or a majority of them, to wit: Edward H. Calvert,
Robert Sewall, Benjamin Oden, Richard W. West,
Francis Magruder, Henry Dodson and Robert Bowie.

Stock sub-
scribed — pub-
lic notice giv-
en— president
and managers
chosen— their
duty, &c.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when one hun-
dred shares of said stock shall have been subscribed, the
commissioners shall give twenty days public notice as
aforesaid, of the time and place appointed for the sub-
scribers to meet, to organise said institution, and to
choose by plurality of votes by ballot, a president and