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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Descent
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she proceeds to act under the provisions of this act shall give
bond with such security as shall be approved by the chancellor,
conditioned for the faithful performance of the trust reposed in
her by this act, with such penalty as he shall direct, upon a duly
attested office copy of which suit or suits may be instituted by
any person or persons interested in the performance of the
conditions thereof.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said heirs at
law or either of them shall die intestate before they shall arrive
at the age of twenty one years, then the money arising from
the sale of the land before mentioned shall descend and pass in
the same course of descent, as the said lands would have pas-
sed or descended if this act had not been passed.
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Passed Jan.
6, 1816.
May import
slaves.
Not to be
disposed of un-
der three
years.
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CHAPTER 57.
An act for the benefit of Reuben Long, of the City of Balti-
more.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Reuben Long be, and he is hereby authorised
and empowered to remove, import and bring into this state, at
any time within one year after the passage of this act, a negro
slave called Tom, any law to the contrary in any wise not-
withstanding,
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein contain-
ed shall be construed to enable the said Reuben Long to sell or
dispose of the said negro slave imported by virtue of this act,
until the said slave shall have resided within this state three
whole years next preceding such sale, except in cases of dispo-
sition by last will and testament, and dispositions by law for
bona fide debts, or consequent upon intestacy.
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Passed Jan.
6, 1816.
Company
incorporated.
Subscrip-
tions—capital
—commission
ers.
Election of
president and
managers—
annual elec-
tions.
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CHAPTER 58.
An act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from
the Village of New-Windsor, to intersect the Baltimore and
Reister's-Town turnpike road.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a company shall be incorporated to make a
turnpike road from the village of New-Windsor, (Sulphur
Springs,) to intersect the Baltimore and Reister's Town turn-
pike road at or near the west end of the town of Westminster.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscription books
shall be opened on or before the first Monday of March next,
at Westminster and New-Windsor, for a capital stock for said
company of forty thousand dollars, in sixteen hundred shares
of twenty-live dollars each, under the direction of the follow-
ing commissioners or any one of them to wit: at Westminster
by William Durbin, Jacob Schriver, James M'Haffee, and Tho-
mas Wells; at New Windsor by Jacob Landis, Isaac Atley
James Clemson and Joseph Hains.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when six hundred
shares of said stork 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 organize said in-
stitution, and to choose by plurality of, votes, by ballot, a pre-
sident and eight managers, five of whom shall form a quorum,
a treasurer, and such other officers as they shall deem necessa-
ry to conduct the affairs of the company, until the first Monday
in March thereafter, and until a new election, and to make
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