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stock subscribed will not be sufficient to complete such road or
roads as shall have been undertaken, it shall and may be lawful for
the company to increase the capital to such extent as shall be
deemed sufficient to accomplish the said undertaking, not ex-
ceeding the addition of fifteen dollars per share, and to demand
and receive the monies for the same, in like manner, and under
the like penalties as herein is, or shall be provided for in their
by-laws.
16. And be it enacted, That the company shall not be entitled
to exact or receive any toll or duty exceeding the rate of twenty
cents per ton, for one thousand yards of any road by them made
in virtue of this act, or in that proportion for any less or greater
weight, quantity or distance.
17. And be it enacted, That no subscriber or stockholder of the
company shall be held responsible for the engagements thereof
beyond the primary or eventual limitation of his, her, or their
subscription or stock, but each and every subscriber shall be liable,
and may be warranted or sued, as the case may require, in his,
her or their individual or corporate character, for any default or
defaults in any payment of requisitions made by the board of
president and managers.
18. And be it enacted, That so soon as the company shall have
perfected any distance of rail road, not being less than one
thousand yards, they shall give notice thereof to the governor of
this state, who shall thereupon, forthwith nominate and appoint
three skilful persons to view and examine the same, and make re-
port thereon, whether the said road is so far done and executed in
a complete and workmanlike manner, according to the true intent
and meaning of this act, and if their report shall be in the affirma-
tive, then the governor shall, by license under his hand, and the
great seal of the state, permit and suffer the said president, mana-
gers and company, to erect and fix so many gates and turnpikes
upon and across the said road, as will be necessary and sufficient
to collect the tolls and duties imposed by the authority herein
granted.
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Dec. Ses. 1816
Rates of tolls.
No subscriber
to be responsi-
ble beyond the
amount of sub-
scription.
Persons to be
appointed to
view road
when com-
pleted.
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CHAPTER 198.
An act authorising Joseph Darden, late Collector of Talbot
county, to complete his collections.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Joseph Darden be, and he is hereby authorised and empow-
ered to collect, until the first day of January, eighteen hundred
and eighteen, all balances due him as collector of Talbot county,
for the years eighteen hundred and thirteen and eighteen hun-
dred and fourteen, in the same manner that he could or might
have done within the time limited by law.
2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said Jo-
seph Darden, before he proceeds to execute the property of any
person or persons for public dues or fees in virtue of this act, to
deliver to such person or persons chargeable with the same, at
least thirty days previous to levying such execution, an account,
written in words at full length, of the public dues and fees de-
manded of him, her or them, with an affidavit thereto annexed,
that he hath not received any part thereof, nor any thing in se-
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Passed Feb. 3
Time for col-
lection extend-
ed.
Before he exe-
cutes property
to deliver ac-
count, &c.
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