The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-05-26
CHAPTER So.

AN ACT to incorporate company to make q
Turnpike Road from the Baltimore and York
town Turnpike, to Ny Ladys Manor in Balti-
more county.
Section Il Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly of Maryland, That company be, and is
hereby incorporated to make Turnpike road,
which shall begin at point on the Baltimore
and Yorktown Turnpike road where the present
Warren Factory road now intersects said Turn
pike, and following the bed of said road shall
terminate at or near the Episcopal Church, on
Ny Lady's Manor.
Sec. And be 1t enacted, That the capital
stock of said company shall be twenty-five thous-
and dollars in shares oftwenty five dollars each.
Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That the subscrip-
ton books of said company shall be opened at
Warren Factory, on or before the first day of
June next for subscriptions to the capital Of said
company, and that Anon Green, Benjamin R.
Ridgely' Thomas T. Griffith, George r. Roys-
ton, Edward Price, John Curtis George Fl Cole
and Zepheniah Poteet, be and they are hereby
appointed commissioners to receive such suhscrip-
tons.
Sec, 4.--And be it enacted, That when one
hundred shares of said stock shall have been SUBJ
scribed, and fifty shares paid in, the said COM
missIoners shall give twenty days notice to the
subscribers to meet at a time and place to be
| fixed by the said commissioners for the purpose
Of organizing said company. and the said sub
| scribers at such meeting shall elect President
and five Directors to serve until the second Mon
day in january thereafter, and until their success
ors shall be elected and qualified, and the Stock
holders of said company shall annually, on the
second Monday of January, or within sixty days
| thereafter elect President and five Directors.
| Sec 5.-And be it enacted, That the Stock
holders of said company are hereby created a
lody polite and corporate by the name and IT,
tie Of the Warren and My Lady's Manor Turn
| pike Company, and by that name Shall have per-
petual succession, and shall have the privileges
and franchises of corporation, and may sue and
be sued, make "a corporate seal, and bylaws for
the regulation of the company.
| Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the sums SC
subscribed for the stock. of said company, shall
said, in such sums and at such times as they may
direct and require.
Sec. Z. And be it enacted, That the President
and Directors of said company shall manage all
| the affairs and concerns and that three of the
| Directors with or without the President, shall
constitute quorum for the transaction Of any
| business and that If vacancy occurs in the
| Presidency, a President shall be elected by the
Directors to serve until the next election by the
! stockholders.
| Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That the President
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| three Commissioners, who or majority of them
shall lay out the road and shall make plat OF
the said road, and file the same in the of
| fee Of the Clerk Of the Circuit Court for Balti-
more county. to be recorded, and such Commits
| sioners, before they act as such, shall take an
oath to locate said road according to the best of
their skill and judgment, aud that they are not
interested in any lands through which said road
shall pass.
Sec 8. And be it enacted, That the said road
shall be laid out according to the plat made by
said commissioners, if approved by the Directors
of said company, and that said road shall be
thirty feet WIDE sixteen of which shall bean ar
| tifcal road, made of stone, gravel, wood OF
some other hard and durable substance
Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That the President
and Directors are hereby authorized to erect toll
gates on said road, and to charge tolls for travel
| ing on the same, according to the rate of tolls
now charged or allowed to be charged on the
Dulaney's Valley and Towsontowu Turnpike
aforesaid provided however, that no tolls shall
be taken on said road until two continuous miles
of the same shall be completed.
Sec IL And be it enacted, That in case the
company shall not be able TO agree with the
owner or owners of any land, over or through
which the road shall be located by the said Com
missioners, it shall be lawful for the said conpa-
ny to cause any Justice of the Peace for Balti-
more county to issue his warrant to the Shelf,
directing him to summon twelve impartial Juror:
to meet on said land, on a day to be therein
named, to assess the damages sustained by sai
owner or owners by reason of said road passing
through said land, which inquisition shall DE re
turned to the Clerks Office and either party shall
have the right to appeal to the Circuit Court 70
Baltimore county, from the verdict or finding Q
said jury, within sixty days from the finding 0
said verdict
Sec. IL. And be it enacted, That said compa
ny shall not exercise any banking powers or is
sue any paper to be used as currency.
Sec. Is. And be it enacted, That the Genera
Assembly may amend or annu this act at pleas
: ure.
Sec H. And be it enacted, That this act sha
take effect from the date Of its passage.
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