7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company shall
open the said road from the mouth of Monocacy or some place
near thereto through Montgomery county, according, to the
location of the commissioners aforesaid, fifty feet wide, of
which at least twenty feet shall be an artificial road, composed
of stone or gravel, and erect and keep up bridges over the
streams crossing the same; and whenever five miles of said
road shall be perfected, said company shall be entitled to re-
receive tolls; Provided, that no toll be demanded or taken from
any person passing or repassing from one part of his farm to
another, or to or from any place of public worship, or funeral,
on days appointed for that purpose, or from militia men on
days of training, or from voters on days of ejection attending
the polls, going to and returning from the same
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said company shall be
and are hereby invested and cloathed with all the privileges,
rights, immunities and advantages, which are held and pos-
sessed by the turnpike company incorporated by an act passed
at November session, eighteen hundred and twelve, entitled,
in act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from
the District of Columbia to the city of Baltimore, to be gov-
erned by the same regulations as are therein prescribed, and
entitled to the same tolls, and every clause and provision of
said act relative to the road therein proposed to be made, so
far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with this
act.
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be lawful for
any corporation or body politic in the United States to become
stockholders in said company,
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if said company do
not proceed to carry on said work within three years after the
passage of this act, or shall not within ten years thereafter
complete the said road, it shall be lawful for the legislature of
this state to resume the rights, privileges, liberties and franchi-
ses granted by this act to said company.
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each of the levy
courts of Montgomery and Anne-Arundel counties shall ap-
point five commissioners, who shall estimate the amount of
damages sustained by any person or persons by reason of said
road passing-through his, her or their land, or by taking stone,
gravel, or other materials for the use of said road, in cases
where the parties cannot agree, which estimate shall be final
in determining such damages.
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no toll gate shall be
erected within one mile of any town or village or at the inter-
section of the Baltimore and Frederick town turnpike road,
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Dec. Sess.
1815
Proviso.
Privileges &c.
Bodies may
be stockhold-
ers.
Right to re-
vert.
Damages.
Toll gate.
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CHAPTER 163.
A further supplement to the act entitled, em act respecting the
equity jurisdiction of the county courts.
WHEREAS some doubts are entertained whether the
original act, and the supplements thereto, to which this is an
additional supplement, confer on the county courts a concur-
rent jurisdiction within their respective districts, in all cases
with the court of chancery within this state; Therefore,
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the several county courts of this state, by virtue of
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Passed Jan.
26, 1816;
Preamble.
Jurisdiction
extended.
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