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president and managers, or to an officer appointed by them, in such
sums and at such times as they may appoint, provided two months
notice of the instalment required be previously given.
7. 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 near-
est and best, directions, from the public square in Hager's-Town, to
intersect the turnpike authorised to be made by the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania from Gettysburg, in Adams county, through Ni-
cholson's Gap, to the division line between the state of Maryland
and Pennsylvania, and after having laid out and marked said road,
shall make out a plot of the same, specifying the course and dis-
tance, and return the said plot to the president and managers; and
said commissioners, before they proceed to act, shall take the fol-
lowing oath, or affirmation, before some justice of the peace: "I, A.
B. do swear, or affirm, that I will lay out and mark The Hager's-
Town and Antietam Turnpike Road, according to the best of my
skill and judgment, agreeably to the direction of this act, and that
I am not interested in any land through which said road is likely
to pass."
8. And be it enacted, That the said company shall open said road
from the public square in Hager's-Town, according to the location
of the commissioners aforesaid, sixty feet wide, of which at least
twenty feet wide shall be an artificial road, composed of stone or
gravel, and erect and keep up bridges over streams crossing the
same.
9. And be it enacted, That said company shall be and hereby
are invested and clothed with all the rights, immunities and advan-
tages, which are held and possessed by the turnpike company in-
corporated by an act passed November session eighteen hundred
and twelve, entitled, An act to incorporate a company to make a
turnpike road from the district of Columbia to the city of Balti-
more, and entitled to the same tolls, as therein prescribed.
10. 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 said company.
11. And be it enacted, That if the said company do not proceed
to carry on the 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.
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CHAP. 102.
President and ma-
nagers to appoint
commissioners to
lay out said road,
&c.
Road to be laid
out sixty feet wide
twenty feet where-
of to be composed
of stone, &c.
Rights and immu-
nities of company
Any corporation
or body politic
may subscribe.
If company do
not proceed to
carry on work
within three years
state to resume
rights, &c.
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CHAPTER 103.
An act for the preservation of the navigation of a branch of
Nanticoke River, called North West Fork, in Dorchester
county.
WHEREAS it is represented to this General assembly, that wears
and hedges have of late been erected in and across the north west
fork branch of the said river, in Dorchester county, from the Chim-
ney Landing up to the north west fork bridge, to the great injury of
the navigation of said river, therefore.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all wears and hedges already made, or hereafter to be made, in
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Passed Feb. 3, 1819
Preamble.
Wears and hedges
erected so as to
stop vessels, de-
clared nuisances.
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