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vy court of the county through which any old road passes over
which the said turnpike road may run in the same manner as
is provided for in the act entitled, an act to incorporate compa-
nies to make several turnpike roads through Baltimore county
and for other purposes, and the several supplementary acts
thereto.
31. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said company
shall not commence making said road in the manner herein be-
fore directed within three, years and complete the same within
ten years from the passage of this act, that this law shall cease,
and be null and void.
CHAPTER 100.
An act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from
the Baltimore and Frederick Turnpike, at or near the fifty-
fith mile stone west of Middle Town, to the Potowmac River,
near M' Shan's Ferry.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a company shall be incorporated to make a
turnpike road from Baltimore and Frederick, at or near the
fifty-fifth mile stone west of Middle town, to the Potowmac
river, near M'Shan's ferry.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED; That subscription books
shall be opened on or before the first day of October next, at
MiddleTown, at the house of Casper Schnebly, at Frederick
Town and at Baltimore, for a capital stock for said company
of forty thousand dollars, in sixteen hundred shares, twenty five
dollars each, under the direction of the following commission-
ers or any one of them to wit: at Middle Town by Henry
Stemple, Thomas Marlowe, and John Ringer; at the house of
Casper Schnebly, John Brien, Frederick Rhorer and Zacha-
riah Clagitt; at Frederick Town, John M'Pherson, John Gra-
hame and Thomas Shaw; at Baltimore, Hezekiah Clagitt,
George F. Warfield, and William Lorman.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when six hundred
shares of said stock shall have been subscribed, the commis-
sioners shall give twenty days public notice of the time and
place appointed for the subscribers to meet to organise said In-
stitution, and to choose by plurality of votes by Ballot, a presi-
dent and five managers, (three of whom shall be a quorum,) a
treasurer, and such other officers as they shall deem necessary
to conduct the affairs of the company until the first Monday in
March thereafter, and until a new election, and to make such
by-laws as they shall deem necessary; and on the first Monday
of March in every year, or within ten days thereafter, said
company shall meet for the same purposes, at such place as the
president and managers shall appoint, and in all elections by
stockholders each share shall be entitled to one vote.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the stockholders in
said company shall be, and they are hereby created and erected
into a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of The
Washington and Frederick Turnpike Company, and by the
same name shall have perpetual succession, and all the privile-
ges and franchises incident to a corporation, and shall be capa-
ble of suing and being sued, answering and being answered,
and of enlarging their stock by new subscriptions if the same
shall be found necessary.
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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Not com-
mencing.
Passed Jan.
17, 1816.
Incorporated.
Books to be
opened.
Election of
president and
managers.
Style, suc-
cession &c.
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