CHARLES RIDGELY, (OF HAMPT.) ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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9. And be it enacted, That said company shall be and are
hereby invested and clothed with all the privileges, rights and
immunities, and advantages, which are held and possessed by the
turnpike company incorporated by an act passed at November
session, eighteen hundred and twelve, entitled, An act to incor-
porate a company to make a turnpike road from the District of
Columbia to the city of Baltimore, to be governed by the same
regulations as are therein prescribed, and entitled to the same
tolls, and every clause and provision in said act, relative to the
road therein proposed to be made, so far as the same are applica-
ble and not inconsistent with this act.
10. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for any
corporation or body politic in the United States to become stock-
holders in the said company.
11. And be it enacted, That if the said company do not proceed
to carry on the said work within three years alter the passage
of this act, or shall not within ten years thereafter complete the
said road, it shall bo lawful for the legislature of this state to
resume the rights, privileges and franchises, by this act granted
to the said company.
12. And be it enacted, That the county courts of Washington
county shall appoint five commissioners, who shall estimate the
amount of damages sustained by any person or persons by rea-
son of said road passing through his, her, or their land, or by
taking of stone, gravel, or other materials, for the use of the
said road, in cases where the parties cannot agree, which esti-
mate shall be final in determining such damages.

Dec. Ses. 1816.

Privileges of
company.

Any corporati-
on may become
stockholders.

In case of com-
pany's failure
state to resume
the rights, &c.

Commissioners
to be appointed
for ascertain-
ing damages.

CHAPTER 106.

An act to lay out and make public a Road in Cecil County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That James Cameron, Thomas White, and Edward M'Vay, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners to survey and lay
out a road in Cecil county, beginning at the public road near
Evan's farm, thence in a straight direction till it intersects the
great road leading from Charles-Town to the Rising Sun, at or
near a school-house between Robert Cameron's and John Cord's,
not exceeding thirty foot in width; Provided, that the said road
shall not pass through the buildings, yards, gardens or orchards,
of any person, without the consent of the owner or owners
thereof.
2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall cause
a plot and certificate of the said road, when so surveyed and
laid out, to be made and returned to the levy court of Cecil
county, at their next sitting thereafter, whereupon it shall be their
duty to levy upon the. assessable property of said county, a sum
of money, such as they shall deem necessary, and to appoint an
overseer to open and clear said road agreeably to the plot and
certificate aforesaid; and the said road, when opened and cleared
as aforesaid, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, for
ever thereafter, a public road, and shall be kept in repair as
other public roads in said county.
3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, or a ma-
jority of them, shall value and ascertain the damages, (if any)

Passed Jan. 22.

Commissioners
appointed to
lay out road.

Plot to be made
and returned.

Damages to be
ascertained.