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CHAP. 33.
Passed Jan. 7, 1819
Commissioners to
have power to
make improve-
ments in M'Clure's
dock.
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CHAPTER 33.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the improve:
meat of M'Clure's Dock in the City of Baltimore.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the commissioners appointed by the act to which this is a
supplement and those hereafter to be appointed in virtue thereof,
shall have power from time to time, as they shall consider it ne-
cessary, to make improvements in M'Clure's Dock as authorised
by the act aforesaid, and for that purpose they shall possess the
powers granted by said act for making the intended improvements,
and the expenses of making such improvements shall be levied and
collected in the manner required by said act, and the same pro-
ceedings shall be had therein.
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Passed Jan 11, 1819
Company to be in
corporated.
Subscriptions to
be opened, &c.
When $1000
shares are sub-
scribed, subscri-
bers to meet and
appoint president
and managers.
Proviso.
Stockholders in-
corporated.
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CHAPTER 34.
' An act to Incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike Road
from the West Bank of the Conococheague Creek, at
William sport, to intersect the Cumberland Turnpike
Road at or near Stone Quarry Ridge.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
a company be incorporated to make a turnpike road, beginning at
the west bank of the Conococheague creek, at Williamsport, and
running thence in the nearest and most practicable route to intersect
the Cumberland turnpike road, at or near Stone Quarry Ridge.
2. And be it enacted, That subscription books shall be opened at
Williamsport, on the first Monday in April, for a capital stock of
eighty thousand dollars, in shares of twenty dollars each, under
the direction of Jacob J. Towson, Michael A. Finley, Edmund
U. Turner, Thomas C. Brent, Edward G. Williams, John
M'Clain, Daniel Harbine, George Lowe, or any two of them;
and provided the whole of the stock is not subscribed on the day
that the books are first opened, it shall and may then be lawful for
any one of the commissioners aforesaid to take subscriptions, at
such time and place as may be most convenient, which subscrip-
tions shall be as binding in every respect as if made at the time the
books were first opened.
3. And be it enacted, That when one thousand shares of said
stock shall have been subscribed for, the commissioners shall give
twenty days public notice in all the Hager's-Town papers, of the time
and place appointed for the subscribers to meet and organise said
institution, and to choose, by a plurality of votes, by ballot, a pre-
sident 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
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 every year, or within ten days thereafter, for such pur-
pose, and at such place as the said president and managers shall
appoint; and in all elections by stockholders each share shall be en-
titled 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 politic, by
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