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CHAP. 114.
Stockholders in-
corporated.
President and ma-
nagers to appoint
three commission-
ers to lay out said
road.
Company to open
road according to
location of com-
missioners, &c.
Any corporation
or body politic
may become stock
holders.
Privileges and im-
munities of com-
pany.
If company do not
complete work
within ten
years, state to re-
sume rights, &c.
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6. And be it enacted, That the stockholders in said company
shall be and they hereby are erected and created into a body cor-
porate, by the name and style of The Hagers-town and Boonsbo-
rough turnpike Company, and by the same name shall have per-
petual succession, and shall be capable of suing and being sued, of
answering and being answered, and of enlarging their stock when-
ever they may find such enlargement necessary for the completion
of said road.
7. And be it enacted, That the president and managers be and
they hereby are authorised and empowered, to appoint three, com-
missioners, who, (or a majority of whom,) agreeing, shall lay out
said road in the nearest and best direction, from the public square
in Hagers-town, through Funks-town, and thence on or near the
bed of the new road to Boonsborough; and after they have laid out
and marked said road, shall make out a plot thereof, specifying
the course, and distance, and return the same to the president and
managers; and the said commissioners, before they proceed to art,
shall take the following oath, or affirmation, before some justice of
the peace: "I do swear, or affirm, that I will lay out and mark the
Hagers-town and Boonsborough turnpike road, according to the
best of my skill and judgment, agreeably to the directions of this
act, and that I am not interested in any land through which it is
likely to pass."
8. And be it enacted, That the said company shall open said road
from Hagers-town 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 shall erect and
keep up bridges over streams crossing the same, and when the said
road and bridges shall be completed, said company shall be entitled
to receive toll for one full gate.
9. 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.
10. And be it enacted, That said company be and they hereby are
clothed and invested with all the privileges, rights, immunities and
advantages, which are held and possessed by the turnpike compa-
ny incorporated by an act of assembly passed at November session
eighteen hundred and twelve, entitled, An act to incorporate a com-
pany to make a turnpike road from the District of Columbia to the
city of Baltimore, and be governed by the same regulations as there-
in prescribed, and entitled to the same tolls.
11. And be it enacted, That if said company do not proceed to
carry on the said road, within ten years complete the same, it
shall be lawful for the legislature of this state to resume the rights,
privileges and franchises, hereby granted to the said company.
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Passed Feb 4 1819
Guardians autho-
rised to make an
exchange of a lot
of ground.
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CHAPTER 115.
An act for the benefit of the Children of Joseph Smith, de-
ceased.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the guardians of the children of Captain Joseph Smith, late of the
city of Baltimore, be and they are herein authorised, with the ap-
probation of Baltimore county court, to make an exchange of part
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