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LAWS OF MARYLAND,

DEC SESS.

1814.

come stockholders to the Conococheague bank are here-

by made a corporation and body politic, under the name
and stile of the Conococheague bank, and by that name
shall be, and are hereby made capable in law to sue and
be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answer-
ed, defend and be defended, in any court of record or
any other plate whatever: and also to make, have and
use, a common seal, and the same to break, alter and
renew at pleasure, and to make, issue, and negotiate pro-
missory notes, and generally to do and execute all such
matters and things as to them shall appertain, under the
clauses of this act and the several clauses of the act to
which this is a supplement.

CHAPTER 22.

Passed Dec.
31, 1814.

May borrow
money.

A further supplement to the act entitled, "an act to in-
corporate a company to make a turnpike road from
Elkton to Christiana bridge."
SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED By the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the President and Managers of
the Elk and Christiana Turnpike Company shall, for the
purpose of being enabled to complete the Elk and Chris-
tiana Turnpike Road, have power to borrow money and
pledge the funds of the company to secure the payment
of such loan or loans.

Tolls.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if two miles of
said Turnpike Road are perfected, it shall be lawful for
said company to receive toll, and said company may
put up in addition to the toll gales heretofore allowed
by law, a toll gate on the lane from Elk landing to the
post road, or collect the tolls on the same in any manner
the president and directors may think most convenient,
but shall lay no tolls thereat except on teams, waggons,
carts or other carriages of burthen.

Eleventh
section of the
original act re-
pealed.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the
eleventh section of the act to which this is a supplement,
as exempts persons residing within three miles of any
turnpike gate from paying toll more than once each way
at each gate in twenty four hours, shall be, and is here-
by repealed.

Obstructions.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no person shall,
under penalty of two dollars for each offence, obstruct the
said road by feeding horses on the part covered with
stone or gravel, twenty feet wide in the middle thereof,
to be recovered before a justice of the peace in the name
of the state lor the use of the informer.

Supplement
repealed.

5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the act entitled,
a supplement to the act entitled, an act to incorporate a
company to make a turnpike road from Elkton to Chris-
tiana Bridge, be and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 23.

Passed Jan. 3,
1815.
Stockholders

An act to incorporate "the Franklin Manufacturing
Company of Maryland."
SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-