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Dec Ses. 1817
Payments
Direction of
road—Plot.
Width of road
—Tolls.
Proviso.
Privileges,
rights, &c.
Corporations
may subscribe
If not complet-
ed in 5 years
state to resume
rights, &c.
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privileges and franchises incident to a corporation, and shall be ca-
pable 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, and at
such times, as they may appoint, giving two, months public 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 agreeing, shall lay out the said road in the
nearest and best direction, from Boonsborough through Williams-
Port, to intersect the Cumberland turnpike road on the west side
of 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 Williams-Port turnpike road according
to the best of my skill and judgment, agreeably to the direction of
this act, and 1 do further swear, or affirm, that I am not inte-
rested 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 Boonsborough according to the location of the commissioners
aforesaid, 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 streams crossing the same; and when the said road
and bridges shall be perfect, said company shall be entitled to re-
ceive the same tolls which are allowed by law to the Washington;
and Baltimore turnpike company; Provided, that no toll be demand-
ed or taken from any person passing or repassing 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 elec-
tion, attending the polls, going to or returning from the same.
8. And be it enacted, That said company shall be and are hereby
invested and clothed with all the privileges, rights, immunities and
advantages, which are held and possessed by the company incorpo-
rated by an act passed at November session eighteen hundred and
twelve, entitled, An act to incorporate a company to make a turn-
pike road from the District of Columbia to the city of Baltimore,
and also with all the rights, privileges and immunities, held and
possessed by the Cumberland turnpike road company, to be govern-
ed by the same regulations as are therein prescribed, and entitled
to the same toils, and every clause and provision in said acts rela-
tive 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 cor-
poration or body politic in the United States to become stockhold-
ers in the said company.
10. And be it enacted, That if the said company do not proceed
to carry on said work within two years after the passage of this
act, or shall not within five years thereafter complete the said road,
it shall be lawful for the legislature of this state to resume the
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