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Dec. Ses. 1816.
Books to be
opened for sub-
scriptions.
Subscribers to
meet to orga-
nize company.
Proviso.
Company in-
corporated.
Subscriptions
to be paid.
Commissioners
to be appointed
Road to be 60
feet wide.
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2. And be it enacted, That subscription books shall be opened
on or before the tenth day of January next, in Hager's-town,
for a capital stock of sixty thousand dollars, in three thousand
shares at twenty dollars each, under the direction of the follow-
ing commissioners, or any one of them, to wit: John Kennedy,
Jacob Zellers, Upton Lawrence, Otho H. Williams, David
Schnebly, Henry Wittier, William Heyser, Alexander Neill,
and Henry Lewis.
3. And be it enacted, That when two thousand shares of said
stock shall have been subscribed for, the commissioners shall
give twenty days public notice in two of the news papers printed
in Hager's-Town, of the time and place appointed for the sub-
scribers 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 May thereafter, and until
a new election, and to make such by-laws as they shall deem ne-
cessary, and on the first Monday in May in every year, or with-
in two days thereafter, for such purpose, and at such place 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 cor-
porate, by the name and style of The Hagers-Town and Cono-
cocheague Turnpike Company, and by the same name shall have
perpetual succession, and all the privileges and franchises inci-
dent to a corporation, and shall be capable of suing and being
sued, answering 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 shall be
paid to the president and managers of the company in such sums,
anil at such times, as they may appoint, giving two months pub-
be notice of the payment required.
6. And be it enacted, That the president and managers he, and
they are hereby authorised, to appoint three commissioners, who,
or a majority of whom agreeing, shall lay out the said road in
the nearest and best direction, from the market-space in Hager's-
Town, to intersect the Cumberland turnpike road on the west
bank of the Conococheague creek, and after having laid out and
marked said road, shall make out a plot of the same, specifying
the course and distance, and return the said plot to the president
and managers; and 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 Hager's-Town
and Conococheague 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 interested in any land
through which the said road is likely to pass.
7. And be it enacted, That the said company shall open said
road from Hager's-Town, according to the location of the com-
missioners aforesaid, sixty feet wide, of which at least twenty
feet shall be an artificial road, composed of stone or gravel, and
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