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chap. 94.
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Thomas, John Andrews, Arthur Andrews, James Steele, William
Noble, Simeon Pownell, Timothy Kirl, of the state of Pennsyl-
vania; and William Salisbury, Charles Carroll, Eli Balderston,
Thomas Tenant, of the city of Baltimore; James Jenny, Samuel
Rowland, Reverend James M'Graw, Samuel Clendenin, Thomas
Richards, Jonas Preston, of Cecil county, state of Maryland; or
any two of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners
to do and perform the several things hereinafter mentioned; that in
to say, they shall on or before the first Monday of May Anno Do-
mini one thousand eight hundred and twenty, procure a sufficient
number of books, one or more of which shall be opened at some
convenient place in each of the following places, viz: In the City
of Lancaster, Borough of Strasburgh, Andrew's tavern, John
Hill's tavern, in the City of Lancaster, at George Phillip's tavern,
David Thomas's tavern, in Chester county, all in the state of
Pennsylvania; in the City of Baltimore, Port Deposit, and Na-
thaniel Ewing's tavern, at Bald Fryer Ferry, in the state of Mary-
land; and in each of them enter as follows, or to the following ef-
fect: "We whose names are hereunto subscribed, do promise to pay
to the president and managers of the Octoraro Navigation Compa-
ny, the sum of twenty-five dollars, for every share of stock set op-
posite to our respective names, in such manner and proportions,
and at such times, as shall be determined by the president and ma-
nagers of the said company, in pursuance of an act of the general
assembly of Maryland, entitled. An act to incorporate the Octoraro
Navigation Company. Witness our hands this------day of ------,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ——;" and
shall thereupon give notice in one or more newspapers printed in
the City of Lancaster, in one or more newspapers printed in the
county of Chester, in the state of Pennsylvania, and in two or more
newspapers printed in the City of Baltimore, in the state of Mary- ,
land, for one calendar month at least, of the times and places when
and where the said books shall be kept open to receive subscriptions
for the stock of the said company, at which respective times and
places, one or more of the commissioners shall attend, and permit
all persons of lawful age who shall offer to subscribe in the said
books, in their own name, or the name of any other person who
shall authorise the same, for any number of shares in said stock;
and the said books shall be kept open respectively for the purpose
aforesaid, at least six hours in every juridical day, for the space of
two days, or until there shall have been subscribed, in the City of
Lancaster three hundred shares, in the Borough of Strasburgh four
hundred shares, at Andrew's tavern five hundred shares, at Phil-
lip's tavern live hundred shares, at Hill's tavern five hundred,
shares, at Thomas's tavern five hundred shares, in the City of
Baltimore seven hundred shares, at Port-Deposit three hundred
shares, at Bald Fryer Ferry three hundred shares; and if at the
expiration of two days the books aforesaid shall not have the num-
ber of shares aforesaid, or any of them therein subscribed, the said
commissioners may adjourn from time to time, and transfer
the books elsewhere, until the whole number of four thousand
shall be subscribed; of which adjournment and transfer the com-
missioners aforesaid shall give public notice as the occasion may
require; and when the whole number of shares shall be subscribed,
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