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Dec. Ses. 1816
Commissioners
Compensation.
Repeal.
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and the title to property or claims so attempted to be conveyed,
transferred) assigned or sold, shall vest in the trustee or trustees
of such insolvent debtors, as effectually as any property specified
in the schedule of such insolvent debtor; Provided however, that
no insolvent debtor shall be precluded from the benefit of the
insolvent laws on account of any such deeds, conveyances, trans-
fers, assignments, or sales as aforesaid.
7. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, (any two
of whom shall be competent to act) shall he entitled to receive
for their services such compensation as the judges of Baltimore
county court may deem to be reasonable and proper, which said
compensation shall be paid by the petitioner, or his trustee, as
the said court may order and direct.
8. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the act passed at.
November session eighteen hundred and five, entitled, An act for
the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, and the several supple-
ments thereto, as are inconsistent with, or repugnant to, the pro-
visions of this act, or any of them, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
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Passed Feb. 4.
Road to be
laid out.
Books to be
opened for sub-
scriptions.
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CHAPTER 222.
An act to Incorporate, a Company to make a Turnpike
Road from the site of the Susquehanna Bridge via the
Brick Meeting-House, to the Wilmington and Newark
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 site of the Susquehanna Bridge, in Cecil county, in
the nearest and best direction to the mouth of Rock Run, and
by the Brick Meeting-House, and from thence till it intersects
the Wilmington and Newark turnpike road.
2. And be it enacted, That subscription books shall be opened
on or before the tenth day of March next, at Rock Run, the
Brick Meeting-House, and Dirzard's Inn, in the county afore-
said, for a capital stock for said company of sixty thousand dol-
lars, in shares of twenty-five dollars each, under the direction
of the following commissioners, or any one of them, to wit: At
Rock Run, by Samuel Kerr, John Pattison and Thomas Wil-
liams; at the Brick Meeting-House, by Elisha Kirk, Hugh
Beard and William Kirk; at Dezard's Inn, by James Ewing.
William Garrett and William Dezard, who, or a majority of
whom, shall meet at such time as they shall appoint, they giving
thirty days previous notice thereof in the Wilmington and Balti-
more news-papers; and if the subscriptions shall exceed the ca-
pital, the commissioners shall apportion the same among the sub-
scribers, by proportionate deductions, so that the whole be re-
duced to the proper limit, but if the said subscriptions shall not
lie filled upon the first day, the commissioners aforesaid may ad-
journ from day to day, and at any time after the first day of the
subscriptions shall be complete, the commissioners shall close
the books, provided that there shall be paid to the said commis-
sioners, at the time of subscribing, one dollar on each share
which shall be subscribed.
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