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Passed Feb. 3
Road to be lo-
cated.
Subscription
books to be
opened.
Provisos.
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CHAPTER 179.
An act to Incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike
Road from Elkton to the site of the proposed Bridge
near Rock Run.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That a company be incorporated to make a turnpike or artificial
road from the town of Elkton to the scite of the Susquehanna
Bridge near Rock Run, on the river Susquehanna, to be located
by the president and managers hereafter to be appointed under the
provisions of this act.
2. And be it enacted, That subscription books be opened for a
capital stock of thirty thousand dollars, in shares of twenty-five
dollars each, and that subscriptions be taken in the town of Elk-
ton, under the direction of James Sewall, Adam Whann and To-
bias Rudulph; at Port Deposit, under the direction of Joseph
Cowden, William C. Miller, and George Davidson, or any two
of them; and at Charlestown, under the direction of Samuel
Hogg, Henry Chamberlain and John N. Black, or any two of them,
who are hereby appointed commissioners for the. purposes aforesaid,
who shall, on or before the first Monday in May next, procure books,
ami in each enter as follows, to wit: "We whose names are. hereunto
subscribed, do promise to pay to the president and managers of the
Elkton and Susquehanna Bridge Turnpike Company, the sum of
twenty-five dollars for every share of stock in said company set
opposite to our respective names. Witness our hands this
day of eighteen hundred and ;" and shall give
notice in two of the public papers in Baltimore, and in the
newspapers printed in the borough of Wilmington, for one month
at least, of the times when and the places where, the said books
will be open to receive subscriptions of stock for the said com-
pany, at which times and places at least two of the said respec-
tive commissioners shall attend, and shall permit and suffer all
persons who shall offer to subscribe in person, or by attorney
duly authorised, in the said books, which shall be kept open for
that purpose at least four hours every day for the space of
three days, if three days shall be necessary; Provided neverthe-
less, that the said commissioners shall not permit any one
person or company to subscribe for more than twenty-five shares
in the said company during the first day in which the said books
shall be opened, nor more than fifty shares on the second day;
and if. after the expiration of the said three days, the said
books shall not have for the said mad the full number subscri-
bed, the said commissioners may adjourn from time to time un-
til the number of shares shall be subscribed, of which adjourn-
ment public notice shall be given in the papers aforesaid, and
when the said subscriptions in the said books shall amount to the
said number, the same shall be closed; Provided always, that
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