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timore and Harford counties," to the best of my skill and
judgment, and without favour, or partiality. And if any of
said commissioners die or refuse to act, the remaining commis-
sioners shall fill the vacancy by appointing a person resident in
the county in which the commissioner whose place is vacated
resided.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners shall
value the damages which each person through whose lands said
roads and those herein after mentioned shall pass, will sustain
thereby, taking into consideration all advantages and disadvan-
tages, arising from the execution of this act; and they shall
return a plot of the roads which they shall locate, to each of the
clerks of Baltimore and Harford counties, to be by them filed
in their offices, and if any person claiming damages, consider
himself or herself aggrieved by said valuation, the judges of the
respective county courts of Baltimore and Harford counties,
shall appoint five commissioners, who shall consider such dam-
ages, and confirm, increase or diminish the same in their judg-
ment, and whose judgment, shall be final and conclusive.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That a company shall be
incorporated to make the turnpike road or roads herein directed
to be made, and subscription books shall be opened on or be-
fore the first Monday of March next, at Baltimore and Belle-
Air, for a capital stock for said company of sixty the thousand dol-
lars in shares of fifty dollars each, under the direction of the
following commissioners or any one of them, that is to say :
James Gettings, Henry Nichols, William Wilson, Samuel
Bradford, Henry Dorsey, Peter Bond, Henry Thompson, Tho-
mas Tenant, Richard Frisby, Joseph Jenkins, Levi Hollings-
worth, John Kelso and William Stansbury (of Abraham;
Provided, that there shall be five dollars paid on each share at
the time of subscription.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when two hundred
or more shares of said stock shall have been subscribed, the
commissioners shall appoint a day of meeting of the stock-
holders to organize the institution, and give thirty days public
notice thereof; and the stockholders at said meeting shall choose
by ballot, in person or by proxy, nine managers, a majority of
whom shall form a quorum, to conduct the business of the com-
pany until the first Monday of April eighteen hundred and se-
venteen, and the managers shall elect a president from their
own body, and in case of the death or resignation of any of
the said managers, the board may by appointment fill the va-
cancy so occasioned, and said stockholders may make such
by-laws, orders and regulations as they shall deem necessary,
not inconsistent with the laws of this state; and on the first
Monday of April in every year thereafter, or within ten days
thereafter, said company shall meet for said purposes at such
place as the president and managers shall appoint, and in all
such elections or proceedings each share shall be entitled to one
vote, provided that no person or company shall have more than
ten votes.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the stockholders in
said company shall be, and they are hereby created a body poli-
tic and corporate, by the name and style of The Baltimore and
Harford Turnpike Company, and by the same name shall have
perpetual succession and all the privileges and franchises inci-
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