LEVIN WINDER, Esq. GOVERNOR.

133.

the route aforesaid, from Baltimore to the Philadelphia

and Lancaster turnpike road, with as full and ample
powers, privileges, franchises and emoluments, as to the
said subscribers are herein given and granted, and if
the said company shall not proceed to carry on the said
work within three years, or shall not within ten years
after being incorporated as aforesaid, complete the same
according to the true intent and meaning of this act, then
in either of those cases, it shall and may be lawful for
the legislatures of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
and of the state of Maryland respectively, to resume all
and singular the rights, liberties, privileges and fran-
chises by this act granted to the said company.

DEC. SESS.

1813.

25. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, by the
authority aforesaid. That if the legislature of Pennsyl-
vania or Maryland should, at any time after the year
one thousand eight hundred and forty five, think proper
to take possession of the said road, for the purpose of
declaring it a free road, three persons shall be appointed
by the governor of Pennsylvania, three by the governor
of Maryland, and six by the President and Managers
of the said company, who, or any seven or more of them
not having any interest in the said road, shall proceed to
examine and estimate the value of the property which the
said company have therein; and certify the amount there-
of within each state to the governors respectively, who
shall cause the same to be laid be ore the legislature, at
their next session, and whenever the amount so certified,
shall be by law paid to the said company, and not till
then, their right to take toll on the said road, together
with all their right, title, claim and interest therein, shall

cease, and determine.

Legislatures
wishing to de-
clare said road
free.

26. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, by the
authority aforesaid, That the governor of this common-
wealth be, and he is hereby required to cause a certified
copy of this act to be transmitted to the governor of the
state of Maryland, with a request that he will lay the
same before the legislature of that state during the pre-

sent session: Therefore,

Copy to be
trammitted to
Maryland.

Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the above recited act be, and
the same is hereby adopted and dec an d to he a law of
the state of Maryland, and when two hundred and fifty
or the whole number of shares shall be subscribed, the
stock-holders in said company shall be, and are hereby
incorporated and constituted a body politic, by the name
and style of "The President, Managers and Company
of the Baltimore and Strasburg Turnpike Road," and by
the same name the said subscribers shall have success-
sion during the continuance of this incorporation, and
all the privileges and franchises of or incident to a cor-
poration, and shall be capable of suing and being sued,
answering and being answered, and of making a sea

Preceding
act adopted,
and company
incorporated.
Succession.