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Dec. Ses. 1816.
Company to
have all the
privileges of a
corporation.
Payment of
subscriptions.
Road to be
laid out.
Company to
open road.
Exemptions
from toll.
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town, and one in Baltimore, of the time and place appointed for
the subscribers to meet to organize said institution, and to
choose by a plurality of votes, by ballot, a president and five
managers, (three of whom shall be a quorum) a treasurer, and
such other officers as they shall deem necessary for conducting
the affairs of said company, until the first Monday in April
thereafter, and until a new election, and to make such by-laws
as they shall deem necessary, and on the first Monday in April
in every year, or within ten days thereafter, for such purposes,
and at such places as the president and managers shall appoint;
and in all elections by stockholders each share shall be entitled
to one vote; Provided always, that no person shall have more than
twenty-five votes.
4. And be it enacted, That the stockholders in said company
shall be and they are hereby created and erected into a body
corporate by the name and style of The William's-Port and
Boonsborough Turnpike Company, and by the same name shall
have perpetual succession, and all the privileged incident to a
corporation, and shall be capable of suing and being sued, an-
swering and being answered, and of enlarging their stock by
new subscriptions if the same shall be found necessary.
5. And be it enacted, That the sums so subscribed for shall be
paid to the president and managers of the company, in such sums
and at such times as they may appoint, giving two months pub-
lic notice of the payment required.
6. And be it enacted, That the president and managers be and
they are hereby authorised to appoint three commissioners, who,
or a majority of whom, shall lay out the said road in the nearest
and most practicable direction from the termination of the Balti-
more and Frederick turnpike road, at Boonsborough, to the
Conococheague creek at William's-Port, and after having laid
out and marked the same, shall make out a plot thereof, specify-
ing the course and distance, and return the said plot to the said
president and managers; and said commissioners, before they
proceed to act, shall take the following oath, or affirmation: "I.
A. B. do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will lay out and mark
the William's-Port and Boonsborough turnpike road according
to the best of my skill and judgment, agreeably to the direction
of this act; and I do further swear, or affirm, that I am not in-
terested in any land through which the said road may pass."
7. And be it enacted, That the said company shall open the.
said road from Boonsborough to the Conococheague creek at Wil-
liam's-Port, according to the location of the commissioners afore-
said, sixty feet wide, of which at least twenty feet shall be an
artificial road, composed of stone or gravel, and erect and keep
up bridges over the streams crossing the same, and when the
said road and bridges shall be perfected said company shall be
entitled to receive full toll for one gate.
8. And be it enacted, That no toll be demanded or taken from
any person passing or repassing to or from any public worship
or funeral, or on days of training from militia-men, or from vo-
ters on days of election attending the polls, going to and return-
ing from the same.
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