74

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Sess.

1814.

--quorum--mi-
nutes —— sur-
veyors, &c.—
draughts.

and managers shall meet at such times and places as shall
be ordained by the respective by-laws, and when met,
five members shall form a quorum, who, in the absence
of the president, may choose a chairman, and shall keep
minutes of all their transactions fairly entered in a book,
and a quorum being formed, they shall have full power
and authority to appoint all such surveyors, engineers,
superintendants and other officers, as they shall deem
necessary to carry on their intended works, and to fix
their salaries and wages, and to draw on the bank for all
monies as shall have been so as aforesaid deposited by
the commissioners aforesaid, which draught shall be
signed by the said president; or in his absence, by a
majority of a quorum and countersigned by the treasur-
er; and generally to do all such other acts, matters and
things, as by this act and the respective by-laws, rules,
orders and regulations of the company, they shall be au-
thorised to do.

Delinquents.

9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That after thirty days
public notice in all the public papers aforesaid, of the
time and place appointed for the payment of any propor-
tion of the said capital stock of the said company, if any
stockholder shall neglect to pay such proportion at the time
and place appointed, for the space of thirty days after
the time so appointed, every such stockholder, his, her
or their assignee, shall, in addition to the payment so
called for, pay at the rate of five per cent per month far
delay of such payment; and if the same, and the said ad-
ditional penalty, shall remain unpaid for such space of
time as that the accumulated penalties, shall become equal
to the sums before paid in part, on account of such share
or shares, the same shall be forfeited to the said company
and may and shall be sold and assigned by the presi-
dent and managers of said company to any person wil-
ling to purchase the same, for such price as can be ob-
tained for the same, and the purchaser or purchasers a-
foresaid shall have all the benefit and advantage of such as
signment and purchase, as if he, she or they had been an
original stockholder.

To be laid out
upon the bed of
said old road.
Provisos.

10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said road
be made, in, over and upon the bed of the present road,
as laid out and used; Provided always, That should it
appear on a resurvey of any part of the said road, by
sworn surveyors, that a considerable saving in distance
or in expence would arise to the company, that in all
such cases it shall be lawful to depart from the tract of the
road so originally laid down, and improve the shorter
or less expensive route; Provided also, That in all such
deviations the road shall not be diverted or taken from a-
ny town or village through which it now passes, nor shall
it pass through the meadows, gardens, orchards or grain
fields, whilst the grain or crop is grow ing therein without
the consent of the proprietor or proprietors thereof; and
provided also, That where the tract of the original road shall