Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1813-09-23

JUDICIAL proceeding, as is authorised by the
laws OF the country where such defaul,eI
| shall be found and in all such warrants
motions or actions. the certificate OF the ceri
OF the said company shall bo conc lusive o
the defendants being member OF the COM
pany, and prima iscie evidence of the n
mount due on the share or shares held by
such defendant.
Sec 4. .And5e it further enacted. That
the said president and directors shall meet
at such times and places as shall be agreed
| upon for transacting their business at
which meetings any three members shall
form quorum who, in,the absence of the
president may choose chairman, and shall
keep minutes of all theii. transactions, fairly
entered on book, and a quorum being met.
they shall have full power AID authority to
appoint a treasurer, and all other officers
necessary and Convenient, and agree with
and appoint all such surveyors, attendants,
artists or other agents as they may Judge ne
cessary, TO carry on the Intended works, and
to hx their salaries, wages or compensation,
to direct and order the times. manner and
proportions, when and in Which the stock
holders shall pay monies due OIL their re
spective shares; to draw orders on the
treasurer for all monies due from said com
pany and generally to do and transact all
such other matters acts aud things, as by
the bye laws, rules, and regulations of said
company SHALL be required or permitted.
Sec. S. Ind be if further e7,acted.S That
npon application of the said President and
Directors of the said company to the cir
cult court of the district of Columbia, or To
the Judges of said court out of court, the said
court, or the judges, or any two of the
Judges thereof out of court, shall appoint
three commissioners, not interested in an,
of the lands through which the said road
may be laid out, nor interested in the stock
of the company .ereby created, nor in the
occupancy of any mills or water works by
which the said road may pass; who shall
receive each, from. the said president and
directors and company TIVE dollars for eve
~ day they shall respectively be actually
leceasariiy employed, i'll or about the at
fairs OF said company and each of the said
commissioners, before he proceeds to act as
such, shall take and subscribe an oath or
solemn affirmation in the presence of a jus
ace of the peace, that he will well, faith
fully and impartally, according to the best
his skill and judgment, and without un
necessary delay execute and perform ali
the duties required of him rs a commissioner
hnder the sixth section Of tue act Of Com.
gress, entitled An act 20 incorporate a
company for making certain turnpike roads
in the district of CoumbiI," wuich oaths or
| tfhrmations SO subscribed and certified b,
ne justice, i'll whose presence they shall he
severally taken and subscribed, shall b. fl :
led in the office of the clerk If the said Cir
cult court, and enrolled among the land re
| cords OF the county of Washington and the
| aid commissioners, or any twu' of them, be
| ing quail fed as aforesaid, shall upon Their
quest of the said president and directors,
Cause to be surveyed, laid out, ascer-
;aHed, described and marked. by &C rain
| meIes and bounds, of the aforesaid turnpike
road, described in the first section of this
! act, notices than sixty feet in breadth, in such
| routes tracts or Courses, for the same res
pectiveiy, as, in the best of acknowledgements,
] viii combine shortneSs of distance with The
most convenient ground and the smallest
expense of money and for this purpose it
shall be as full for them, and such agents,
assistantants, servants, or attendants, as
they may think proper TO employ, 10 enter
| upon any of the lands through or uear which
the said road may be laid out; having first
! given twenty Gays pubic notice, in some
| public newspaper, printed in the district of
| Columbia, of the time and Place of their en-
tering on the said business Of surveying and
laying out each road respectively ard if
I ny proprietor of any part of the lands. thro'
which the said road may be laid out, shall
] require compensation for so much Of his or
her said land, as may be occupied by the
SAID road, or shall claim damages for or ON
account OF the opening or laying out of said
road through his or her land, aud if the said
president and drestors cannot agree with
such proprietors respecting the same, then
the said commissioners at the request Of Ell
Their party, shalt appoint day and place
TO hear and decide upon such claim, and
the amount OF Compensation and damages
which such proprietor shall be entitled to
receive from the said president, directors,
and company thereof, first giving twenty
days notice to the adverse party, his or her
agent, attorney in fact, or other legal repre-.
sentative, If either shall be within the dis
trict Of Columbia and if the party so mott
fed shall fail to attend, or if the party shall
be an. infant under age, non comPos meutis
feme covert or absent out of the district oi
Columbia and have no agent or legal repre-.
sentative therein, then the said commission
ers may proceed OK parte to hear and de-
eide the same and the award Of them OF
any two OF them, made in writing signed BY
them, or any two of them, shall by them be
returned TO the Office of the clerk of tn,
said court for sthe county of Washington
within ten days after such hearing, and a
copy thereof shall within ten days after such
return be served upon such of the pzr;ie,
as are residents in the District of Columbia
and il such award be not, at the session o
the SAID circuit courtIn the county of Wash,
iugton, next after such return OF the said a
ward to the clerks Office, be set aside OF
account Of fraud or partiahty in the sale
commissioners, or other cause deemed suffi.
cient in the opinion of the court, the same
shall be final and conclusive between the