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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Proviso.
Organization.
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ington, Orlando G. Dorsey and John B. Snowden; for fifty
thousand dollars at Liberty Town, in Frederick county, under
the direction of Alexander Warfield, Abraham Jones, John
Glissan, Dennis D. Howard and William E. Williams; for for-
ty thousand dollars at John Devilbiss's mill, on Fishing Creek,
under the direction of John Cockey, Charles Baltzell, Jacob
Cramer, John Croinece and John Devilbiss; for eighty thousand
dollars at Hager's-Town, under the direction of Henry Lewis,
Martin Keshner, Richard Ragan, William Heyser, John Wil-
mer and Daniel Hughes Junr. who are appointed com-
missoners for the purpose aforesaid, who shall on or before the
first Monday in April next, procure books, and in each enter
as follows, to wit: we whose names are hereunto subscribed,
do promise to pay the president, managers and company of
Baltimore, Liberty and Hager's Town Turnpike road company,
the sum of twenty five dollars for every share of stock in said
company set opposite our respective names; witness our hands
this day of eighteen hundred and ;
and shall give novice in the newspapers of Baltimore city, in
Frederick Town, and in Hager's Town aforesaid, one month
at least before the times when and places where, the said books
will be opened to receive subscriptions for stock for the said
company, at which times and places at least two of the said
respective commissioners shall attend, and shall permit and
suffer all persons who shall offer to subscribe in person, or by
power of, attorney duly authorised in the said books, which
shall be kept open for the purpose at least four hours every day,
Sundays excepted, for the space of three days, if three days
shall be necessary; Provided nevertheless, that the commis-
sioners shall not permit any one person or company to sub-
scribe for more than twenty five shares during the first day on
which the said books shall be open in the said company, nor
more than forty shares of said stock on the second day on
which the said books shall be opened; and if at the end of three
days aforesaid the books shall not have the full number of shares
subscribed therein, the commissioners may adjourn from time
to time, until the number of shares be respectively subscribed,
of which adjournment public notice shall be given in the papers
aforesaid; and when the said subscriptions in the said books
shall amount to the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, the
sum aforesaid, the same shall be closed; Provided always,
that every person offering to subscribe in the said books in his
own name, or in the name of any other person, shall upon sub-
scribing pay to the attending commissioners one dollar for ev-
ery share subscribed as aforesaid, out of which shall be defray-
ed the expenses attending the taking such subscriptions and
other incidental expenses, and the remainder shall be deposited
in the Bank of Baltimore for the use of the company aforesaid,
as soon as said company shall be organised, and the officers
chosen, as hereinafter mentioned.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when two thousand
shares or more of the said stock in the said company shall have
been subscribed, the said commissioners heretofore named
shall as soon as convenient, give thirty days notice in the pub-
lic papers aforesaid, of the time and place by them appointed,
for the subscribers to meet, in order to organise the said corpo-
ration, and to choose by a majority of votes of said subscri-
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