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7. And be it enacted, That all accounts settled by the treasurer
or overseer of the poor with the trustees, shall be on oath, or
affirmation} that they are just and true, which oath or affirma-
tion shall be administered by any one of the trustees;
8. And be it enacted, That all the meetings of the trustees of
the poor necessary to be held for the purpose of carrying into ef-
fect the provisions of this act, or of the original act, or of the
supplement thereto, shall he held at the alms-house in the said
county, except such meetings as may be necessary for the settle-
ment and passing their accounts with the levy court.
9. And be it enacted, That the clerk of said court shall be al-
lowed twenty-five cents for each certificate of appointment which
he shall make out and deliver to the sheriff; and the sheriff shall
be allowed fifty cents for the delivery of each of the said certi-
ficates to the persons appointed, all of which charges and allow-
ances are to bo levied, collected and paid over, as other county
charges are.
10. And be it enacted, That any thing in the said original act,
or the supplement thereto, which is repugnant to or inconsistent
with the provisions of this act, shall bo and the same is hereby
repealed.
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Dec. Ses. 1816.
Accounts to be
settled on oath.
Meetings of
trustees.
Allowance to
clerk for each
certificate
made out.
Repeal.
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CHAPTER 105.
An act to Incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike
Road from Boonsborough, in Washington County, to the
Conococheague Creek at William's-Port.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That a company be incorporated for making a turnpike road, be-
ginning at the termination of the Baltimore and Frederick turn-
pike road, and running thence in the nearest and most practica-
ble route through the town of William's-Port, to the Conoco-
cheague creek.
2. And be it enacted, That subscription books be opened for a
capital stock of seventy thousand dollars, in shares of twenty
dollars, to be taken in for twenty thousand dollars of the same
at Baltimore, under the direction of John E. Howard, William
Cooke, senior, Robert Smith, Roswell S. Colt, Robert. Gilmor,
junior, Thomas Ellicott, Isaac Tyson, James Cheston, Jeremiah
Sullivan and Henry Lee Williams, or any two of them; and for
thirty thousand dollars at William's Port, under the direction of
Thomas Buchanan, Frisby Tilghman, Edmund H. Turner, Dani-
el Rentch, or any two of them; and for ten thousand dollars at
Frederick-town, under the direction of Abraham Shriver, George
Baer and Michael Hauser, or any two of them; and for ten
thousand dollars at Cumberland, in Allegany county, under the
direction of William M'Mahon, Thomas J. Perry and Benja-
min Tomlinson, or any of them; who are hereby appointed
commissioners for the purposes herein mentioned.
3. And be it enacted, That when fifteen hundred shares of said
stock shall have been subscribed for, the commissioners shall
give twenty days public notice thereof, in one of the news-papers
printed in Hager's-town, one in Cumberland; one in Frederick-
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Passed Jan. 22.
A company in-
corporated.
Subscription
books to be
opened.
Subscribers to
meet and or-
ganize compa-
ny.
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