LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duly of the trustees aforesaid, to distribute the said sum
of six hundred dollars, among the poor, in the election
districts of said county, agreeably to the population of
said districts.

DEC. SESS.
1814.

Distribution to
out pensioners.

CHAPTER 49.

A supplement to the act entitled, an act to incorporate a
company to make a turnpike road from the city of Bal-
timore to Havre de Grace.
SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That wherever the location of the new
road, authorised by the act to which this is a supplement
may have departed from the bed of the old road, it shall
be lawful for the justices of the levy courts of either Bal-
timore or Harford counties, where such departure may
exist, to authorise the shutting up of such part of the
said old road, as shall be departed from by the said new
road, if the same be desired by the party through whose
land such part of said old road may pass.

Passed Jan. 16,
1815.

Old road may
be closed
where desired.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That wherever by
the departure of the new road from the bed of the old
road it may be necessary to extend to the new road any
road which at present leads into and intersects the old road
it shall be lawful for the justices of the levy court of Bal-
timore or Harford counties respectively, as the case may
be, to cause to be located, marked and established as
public roads the extentions of such roads from the in-
tersection of the old road, to the new road, in such di-
rection as the nature of the ground will admit, and most
likely to preserve their public utility, with the least pri-
vate inconvenience, and in width, not exceeding that of

Intersecting
roads may be
extended.

the road thus extended; Provided however, that the
shutting up of said road, shall be authorised in those in-
stanoes, only where in the opinion of the said justices,
the public convenience of travelling shall be usefully and
sufficiently preserved by the extending of the intersect-
ing roads as herein before provided.

Proviso.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all transfers
of stock in said company, executed either in person or
by attorney, in the presence of the secretary of said com-
pany, shall have the same effect and validity, as if such
transfers had been executed in the presence of the presi-
dent or treasurer of the said company.

Transfers exe-

cuted in the
presence of
the secretary
to be valid.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That three members
of the board of managers, with or without the president,
shall form a quorum, who in the absence of the president
may choose a chairman.

Quorum.

CHAPTER 50.

An act to lay out and make public a road therein mention-
ed, in Cecil county.
SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John R. Evans, William Howard,

Passed Jan.
16, 1815.

Commission-
ers— to be sur-
veyed and laid
out--width and
direction.