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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1816.

Privileges of

company.

Proviso.

same from time to time by new subscriptions, on the original
terms, in such manner and form as they shall think proper, if such
enlargement shall be found necessary to fulfil the intent of this
act, and of purchasing and taking to themselves, and their suc-
cessors, in fee simple, or any lesser estate, all such lands, tene-
ments, hereditaments and estate, either real or personal, as shall
be necessary to them in the prosecution of their works, provided
the said real estate shall not exceed ten acres in any one lot or
parcel, and of suing and being sued, answering and being answer-
ed, and the said company shall have power to make a seal, and al-
ter, break and renew the same at pleasure.
5. And be it enacted, That all and every of the provisions and
regulations contained in the act of the general assembly, entitled,
An act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from
the town of Westminster, in Frederick county, through Harman's
Gap, to Hager's-town, in Washington county, passed at November
session, eighteen hundred and nine, except so far as the same
may be inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are extended
to, and shall be considered as constituting a part of this act;
Provided nevertheless, that it shall not be necessary to stone the
said road if the same is capable of being made to answer all the
purposes of stoning the same by other means, in as full and am-
ple a manner, as stoning thereof would do; and the said road
shall be so nearly level in its progress, as that it shall in no place
rise or fall more than wilt form an angle of five degrees with a ho-
rizontal line, and shall for ever hereafter, during the continuance
of the said incorporation, maintain and keep the same in perfect
order and repair.

Passed Feb. 3.

Governor and
council to ap-
point comm'rs.

All applica-
tions to the
court or judges
to be referred
to comm'rs.

CHAPTER 221.

An act relating to Insolvent Debtors in the City and
County of Baltimore.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the governor and council shall commission three persons
of legal knowledge, integrity and experience, as commissioners
of insolvent debtors for the city and county of Baltimore, and
from and after the issuing such commission, the said commission-
ers shall have and exercise the powers and authority hereinafter
mentioned.
2. And be it enacted, That in all cases of applications which
shall hereafter be made to Baltimore county court, or the judges
thereof, for the benefit of the insolvent laws of Maryland, it
shall be the duly of the. court, or the judge to whom the applica-
tion may be made, forthwith to refer the same, together with the
schedule, petition, and other papers, to the said commissioners,
who shall thereupon appoint a provisional trustee to take posses-
sion for the benefit of the creditor's of such insolvent debtor, of
all property, estate and effects, books, papers, accounts, bonds,
notes, and evidences of debt; and the, said commissioners shall
fake bond, with security to be by them approved, for the appear-
ance of such insolvent debtor, to answer such interrogatories as
may be propounded to him by any of his creditors, or such al-
legations as may be filed against him, within the time hereinafter