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the persons so summoned and so qualified, shall thereupon proceed
to assess and value the damages accordingly, of which the said
presidents and managers, or some one of them respectively, shall
have given at least ten days notice, and such inquisition .shall he final
and conclusive between the parties; and in assessing the damages
the jury shall take into consideration the conveniencies and incon-
veniencies, the advantages and disadvantages, if any, arising to the
proprietors of the land over which the said road or roads may pass.
36. And be it enacted, That so much of the third section of the
law passed at November session, eighteen hundred and five, enti-
tled "An act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road
from the line of the District of Columbia, where it crosses the post
road leading from George-Town to Frederick-Town, through Mont-
gomery and Frederick counties, to Frederick-Town," as require
that two thousand five hundred shares or more of the said stock in
the said company shall he subscribed, before the said corporation
can be organized, and any other parts of any section of the said
law which may be inconsistent with, or repugnant to the provisions
of this section, are hereby repealed; and the commissioners named
in the supplement to the said act passed November session, eighteen
hundred and twelve, are hereby authorised and permitted to orga-
nize the said company so soon as fifteen hundred shares or more of
the said stock shall have been subscribed, agreeably to the provi-
sions of the said act; and that as soon as the said road shall be per-
fected from the line of the District of Columbia to Rockville in
Montgomery county, the said president, managers and company,
are hereby authorised to erect and fix such and so many gates or
turnpikes upon and across the said road, as will be necessary and
sufficient to collect the tolls and duties granted to the said company,
in the same manner, and to all intents and purposes as if they had
perfected the said road for a distance often miles, any thing in the
aforesaid act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding: Provided,
however, that the said road shall first be examined, approved and
licensed, as directed and required in the thirteenth section of the
aforesaid act,
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Dec. Ses. 1817
Part of a law
repealed.
Proviso.
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CHAPTER 98.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to lay out and
make public the Roads therein mentioned in Harford
County, and for other purposes, passed December Session
eighteen hundred and sixteen, chapter two hundred and
eight.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
James M'Comas of James, John M'Gaw, and Isaac Ferryman, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a ma-
jority of them, are hereby authorised and required to lay out and
survey a road, not exceeding thirty feet wide, to begin at the south
end of Webster's long lane, thence on the nearest and best direc-
tion the nature of the ground will admit of. and with the least
possible injury to individuals through whose land the same may
pass, by William Patterson's, to intersect the Baltimore and Phi-
ladelphia road at Duncan's shop.
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Passed Feb. 3.
Road to be laid
out.
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