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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Direction--
plot—oath.
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Width—
bedding—
bridges.
Provisos.
Bodies may
become stock-
holders.
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shall be paid to the president and managers aforesaid, in such
sums and at such times as they may appoint giving two months
public notice of the payment so required.
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president and man-
agers be and they are hereby authorised to appoint five com-
missioners, who, or a majority of whom, agreeing shall lay out
the road from the lower ferry on Susquehanna river in Cecil
county aforesaid, through Charles-Town, and from thence till
it intersects the Elkton and Christiana Turnpike road, on as
straight a line between each of said places as the nature of the
ground, and other circumstances will admit of, having regard
to hills and other obstructions; and after having laid out and
marked said road, they shall make one plat of the same speci-
fying the courses and distances, and return the same to the
clerk of Cecil county court to be recorded, and the said com-
missioners, before they proceed to act, shall take the following
oath or affirmation, I. A. B. do swear (or affirm,) that 1 will lay
out and mark the Susquehanna Charles Town and Elkton
Turnpike road according to the best of my skill and judgment,
and according to the directions of an act of Assembly entitled,
an act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road
from the lower ferry on the river Susquehanna in Cecil county,
through Charles-Town, and from thence till it intersects the
Elkton and Christiana Turnpike road; and I do further swear
(or affirm,) that I am not interested in any land through which
said road is likely to pass.
7 AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company shall
open said road from the lower ferry on the river Susquehanna
to Charles-Town and from thence till it intersects the Elkton
and Christiana Turnpike road, according to the location of the
commissioners aforesaid, sixty feel wide, of which at least
twenty feet shall be an artificial road composed of stone, gra-
vel or other hard substance, and erect and keep up bridges
over the streams crossing the same; and whenever two miles of
said road shall be perfected, said company shall be entitled to
receive tolls; Provided, that said company shall not be entitled
to tolls after the year eighteen hundred and thirty, unless said
twenty feet of width shall be composed of stone, gravel or oth-
er hard substance; Provided, that no toll shall 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 any days appointed for that purpose, or from militia
men on days of training, or from voters on days of election at-
tending the polls, going to or returning from the same.
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said company shall be
and are hereby invested and clothed with all the privileges,
rights, immunities and advantages which are held and possess-
ed by the turnpike company incorporated by an act passed at
November session eighteen hundred and twelve, entitled, an
act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from the
district of Columbia to the city of Baltimore; to be governed
by the same regulations as are therein prescribed, and be entit-
led to the same tolls, and every clause and provision of said
act relative to the road therein proposed to be made, shall be in
force as relates to the road herein contemplated, so far as the
same are applicable and not inconsistent with this act.
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be lawful for
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