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erect and keep up bridges over streams crossing the same; and
when the said road and bridges shall be perfect, said company
shall be entitled to receive toll for one full gate; Provided, that
no toll be demanded or taken from any person passing or repass-
ing to or from any public worship or funeral, on days appointed
for that purpose, or from militia-men on days of training, or
from voters on days of election, attending the polls, going to,
and 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 turnpike
company incorporated by an act passed at November session,
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, and also with all the rights, privi-
leges and immunities, which are held and possessed by the Cum-
berland turnpike road company, to be governed by the same re-
gulations as are therein prescribed, and entitled to the same tolls,
and every clause and provision in said acts relative to the road
therein proposed to be made, so far as the same are applicable
and not inconsistent with this act.
9. 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.
10. And be it enacted, That if the said company do not proceed
to carry on said work within three years after the passage 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, privileges and franchises, by this act granted to the
said company.
11. And be it enacted, That the county court of Washington
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
of stone, gravel, or other materials, for the use of the said road,
in cases where the parties cannot agree, which estimate shall be
final in determining such damages.
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Dec Ses. 1816.
Proviso.
Powers and
privileges of
the company.
Any corporati-
on to hold stock.
In case of com-
pany's failure
state to resume
rights, &c.
Damages to be
estimated.
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CHAPTER 132.
A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act to Incorporate
a Company to make a Turnpike Road from the River
Susquehanna, through Charles-Town, to the Elkton
and Christiana Turnpike.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the time given by the original act to which this is a supple
ment for the commencement of the said road, he and the same is
hereby extended to the period of four years from and after the
passage of this act.
2. And be it enacted, That when the Said company shall have
completed two miles of any part of said road, or more, it shall
and may be lawful for them to shut up that part of the present
public road which leads from North East towards the Principio
Crock, and runs north of Charles-Town, anything in the original act
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Passed Jan. 27.
Time for com-
mencing road
extended.
Authorised to
shut up part of
a certain road.
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