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written in words at full length, of the public dues and fees demand-
ed of him, her or them, with an affidavit; annexed that they have
not received any pact thereof, nor any thing as security or satis-
faction for the same, more, than credit given, if any, to the best of
their knowledge and belief.
3. And be it enacted, That the said Marsham Parker and Aquilla
G. Bowen, before they derive any benefit from or under this act,
shall lodge their collection books in the clerk's office of Calvert
county, to be open for the inspection of all persons interested in the
same.
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Dec. Ses 1817
Books to be
lodged with
clerk.
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CHAPTER 202.
An act to Incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike Road
from Boonsborough through Williams-Port, to intersect
the Turnpike Road now making from Cumberland to the
west bank of the Conococheague.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
a company be incorporated to make a turnpike road, beginning at
the limitation of the Baltimore and Frederick turnpike road at
Boonsborough, and running thence in the nearest and most practi-
cable route through Williams-Port, to intersect the turnpike road
now making from Cumberland to the west bank of the Conoco-
cheague.
2. And be it enacted, That subscription hooks shall be opened on
the second Monday in March, for a capital stock of one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars, in shares of twenty dollars each; for-
ty thousand dollars of the same to be subscribed in the city of Bal-
timore, under the direction of John E. Howard, William Lorman
and Jeremiah Sullivan, or any one of them; forty thousand dollars
at Frederick under the direction of John M'Pherson, George Baer
and Richard Potts; and forty thousand dollars at Williams-Port un-
der the direction of Jacob S. Towson, Edmund H. Turner and
Thomas Buchanan.
3. And be it enacted, That when three thousand shares of said
stock shall have been subscribed for, the commissioners shall give
twenty days public notice in two of the Baltimore, two of the Fre-
derick, and two of the Hager's-Town newspapers, of the time and
place appointed for the subscribers to meet and organize said in-
stitution, and to choose, by a plurality of votes, by ballot, a presi-
dent and five managers, (three of whom shall be a quorum) a trea-
surer, and such other officers as they shall deem necessary, for con-
ducting 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 eve-
ry year, or within ten days thereafter, for such purpose, and at
such place as the said 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 twen-
ty-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 politic,
by the name and style of "The Williams-Port Turnpike Company,
and by the same name shall have perpetual succession, and all the
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Passed Feb 14
Company in-
corporated.
Books to be
opened.
Subscribers to
meet, &c.
Proviso.
Style—effect
in law.
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