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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Instalments.
Commission-
ers—plot—
oath.
Width—
bridges.
Privileges &c.
Proviso.
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Westminster and Liberty Town Turnpike Company, and by
the same name shall have perpetual succession, and all the priv-
ileges and franchises incident to a corporation, and shall be ca-
pable of suing and being sued, answering and being answered,
and of enlarging their stock by new subscriptions if the same
shall be found necessary.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums so subscribed
shall be paid to the president and managers aforesaid, in such
sums and at such times as they may appoint, giving one
month's public notice of the payment so required.
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president and
managers be and they are hereby authorised to appoint five
commissioners, who or a majority of whom agreeing, shall lay
out the road, beginning at the turnpike near Westminster, in
the straightest and best direction, to William Duddero's on the
old liberty road, from thence to the west end of Liberty Town,
having regard to mills and other obstructions; and after having
laid out and marked said road, they shall make a plot of the
same, specifying the courses and distances, and return it to the
clerk of Frederick county, to be recorded; and the commis-
sioners before they proceed to act, shall take the following
oath, or affirmation: I. A. B. do swear, (or affirm,) that I will
lay out and mark The Westminster and Liberty Town Turn-
pike Road, according to the best of my skill and judgment, ac-
cording to the directions of an act of assembly, enititled, an act
to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from the
village of Liberty Town, to intersect the Baltimore and Reis-
ter's Town Turnpike Road, at or near the west end of West-
minster Town; and I do further swear, (or affirm) that I am not
interested in any land through which the said road is likely to
pass.
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company shall
open the said road from the turnpike near Westminster, accor-
ding to the location of the commissioners aforesaid, forty
feet wide, of which at least eighteen feet shall be an artificial
road, composed of stone or gravel, and erect and keep up
bridges over the streams crossing the same; and whenever five
miles of said road shall be perfected, said company shall be en-
titled to receive tolls; Provided, that no toll be demanded er
taken from any person passing or repassing from one part of his
farm to another, or to or from any place of public worship, or
funeral on days appointed for that purpose, from militia men
on days of training, or from voters on days of election attend-
ing the polls, going to and returning from the same.
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company shall
be and are hereby invested and cloathed with all the privileges,
rights, immunities and advantages, which are held and possess-
ed by the turnpike company incorporated by an act passed at
November session, eighteen hundred and twelve, entitled,
an act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from
the District of Columbia to the city of Baltimore, to be gov-
erned by the same regulations as are therein prescribed, and
entitled to the same tolls; and every clause and provision of
said act, relative to the road therein proposed to be made, so
far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with this act;
Provided, that the said company shall not commence or begin
the making of said road before the first Monday of January
eighteen hundred and nineteen.
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