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and return the same to flic clerk of Cecil county court, to be
recorded; and the said commissioners, before they proceed to act,
shall take the following oath, or affirmation: "I, A. B. do swear,
(or affirm) that I will lay out and mark the Conowingo turnpike
road according to the best of my skill and judgment, and
according to the directions of an act of assembly, entitled,
An act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from
the contemplated bridge over the river Susquehanna, at Cono-
wingo creek, to the Pennsylvania line; and I do further swear,
(or affirm,) that 1 am not interested in any land through which
said road is likely to pass."
7. And be it enacted, That the said company shall open said
road from the site of the Conowingo Bridge, in Cecil county
aforesaid, to the Pennsylvania line, to intersect a turnpike, to be
made from Philadelphia via New-London Cross Roads to the
said line, according to the location of the commissioners afore-
said, sixty feet wide, of which at least twenty feet shall be
artificial road, composed of stone, gravel, or other hard sub-
stance; Provided, that no tolls shall be demanded or taken from
any person passing or repassing from one part of his farm to ano-
ther, or to or from any place of public worship or funeral, on
any days appointed for that purpose, or from militia-men outlays
of training, or from voters on days of election, attending the polls,
going to, or returning from the same.
8. And be it enacted, That said company shall be and are here-
by invested and clothed with all the. privileges, rights, immuni-
ties and advantages, which are held and possessed by the turn-
pike company incorporated by an act passed at November sessi-
on eighteen hundred and twelve, entitled, An act to incorporate
a company to make a turnpike road from the district of Colum-
bia to the city of Baltimore, to be governed by the same regu-
lations as are therein prescribed, and be entitled to the same toils,
and every clause and provision of said act relative to the road
therein proposed to be made, shall be in force as relates to the
road herein contemplated, so far as the same are applicable and
not inconsistent with this act.
9. And be it enacted. That it shall be lawful for any corporati-
on or body politic in the United States to become stockholders in
the said company.
10. And be it enacted, That if said company do not proceed to
carry on said work within three years after the passing of this
act, or shall not within ten years thereafter complete the said road,
it shall be lawful for the legislature of this state, to resume the
rights, liberties, privileges and franchises, granted by this act to
said company.
11. And be it enacted, That the county court of Cecil county
shall appoint five commissioners, who shall estimate the amount
of damages sustained by any person or persons by reason of said
road passing through his, her, or their land, or by taking stone,
gravel or earth, or other materials, for the use of said road, in
cases where the parties cannot agree, which estimate shall be
final in determining such damages.
12. And be it enacted, That as soon as the said president, ma-
nagers and company, shall have perfected their road to the dis-
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Dec. Ses. 1816
--to be sixty
feet wide.
Proviso.
Privileges of
company.
Corporations
may become
stockholders.
In case of com-
pany's failure
state to resume
rights, &c.
Damages to be
estimated.
To give notice,
&c.
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