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the chancery court a bill of discovery and relief against the di-
rectors of the corporation as against private individuals, where -
in they shall be compelled to discover the interest or share
which each and every member of the corporation may have
therein; and upon such discovery being had, the chancellor
shall ascertain the proportionate parts of the said judgment
which the said members severally ought to pay, and he is here-
by authorised to decree accordingly the sum of money which
each and every member of the said corporation shall pay to
the said plaintiff or plaintiffs.
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no transfer shall be
made of the stock or shares of any member of this corpora-
tion, but such as shall be approved of by at least seven of the
directors for the time being, who shall vote by ballot, for that
purpose, after which admission the directors shall require a re-
newal of the security, and cause the transfer to be entered on
their books kept for that purpose, and the purchaser shall
thenceforth be entitled to all the benefits, and be subject to the
losses winch the original proprietors would be entitled or sub-
jected to.
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall contin-
ue and remain in force for the term of twenty years, and until
the end of the next session of assembly which shall happen
thereafter.
CHAPTER 79.
An act to authorise, the building of a bridge over the River
Patapsco at Norwood's Ferry.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the heirs, devisees, and other legal represen-
tatives, of Edward Norwood and Samuel Norwood, late of
Baltimore county deceased, be and they are hereby authorised
and empowered, to make and erect at their private expence a
bridge over Patapsco river, at the place where Norwood's ferry
is at this time established, which said bridge shall be of the
width of twenty feet, and made of good and substantial mate-
rials, with suitable abutments and railing on each side thereof.
2. AND BE. IT ENACTED, That when the said bridge
shall be erected and finished the proprietors shall make report
thereof to the county court of Baltimore, who shall on the ap-
plication of the proprietors, nominate and appoint five dis-
erect and proper persons as commissioners, to view the said
bridge, and judge of the stability and fitness thereof; and that
the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall as soon
thereafter as may be, make return of their proceedings to the
said county court, there to be recorded, on the report of the
said commissioners or a major part of them being ratified and
confirmed.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the judges of the said
court are hereby authorised and required to grant a license to
the said proprietors or to their assigns, to keep the said bridge
as a toll bridge, with proper gates and bars to secure the same*
and to ask, demand, and receive as toll for passage of the said
bridge, the following sums of money to wit: for all four wheel
carriages driver included twenty-five cents; all two wheel ditto
driver included twenty cents; man an horse six and a quarter
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Dec. Sess
1815.
Transfers
must be ap-
proved of.
Duration.
Passed Jan.
11, 1816.
Width.
Commission-
ers of exami-
nation.
Licence—
tolls.
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