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An Act to incorporate the Portland Dry Dock and Insurance Company. 1835 584 (1835)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0287 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1836 ized by law, under the penalty of one dollar for each days neglect of such duty. SEc. 13. That said company, at any of their regu- Tolls may be lar annual meetings, are hereby authorized and em- reduced by a powered, the proprietors of at least a majority of majority of said shares concurring therein, to reduce the tolls by lQnY. this act allowed for passing said bridge, or at, and during their pleasure, altogether to suspend the same; and to declare and make the said biidge free of pas- sage to all. SEC. 14. That if said bridge shall not be complet- When bridge ed within five years from the first day of May next, is to be corn- or if it should at any time thereafter, remain for two plted. years together, so much out of repair as to be unsafe Charter to be for travelling, then, and in that case, all the privile- forfeited, &c. ges and immunities by this act granted to the said company, shall cease and determine: Provided, that the said bridge shall be built at least fifty-five feet above low water mark, and so as not to obstruct the navigation of the river. And that the board of in- Board Int. tornal improvement be, and they are hereby author- Imp. may taku ized, on behalf of this comnmonwealth, to subscribe tock & uos for stock in this company to an atrnont not exceed- what terms. aont sokubri1 ing th3 amount of stoc subcrib3,1 by indlividual stockholders, in case said boeu'd shall ba of opinion that the erection of said bri'lc e will be practicable, and of public utility ; and that its stock will proba- bly yield a dividend of six per cent. Approvcd, February 29, 1835. CHAP. 407.-XN ACT to incorporate the Pcrtland Dry Dock and Insurance Company. o3'c. 1. Be it enacied by the General Assembly of Company in. the Conzmonwealth of Kentucky, That John Hulme, corpor-ted. James Marshall, S. S. Goodwin, James Newport, and Francis McHarry, with such others as they may as- sociate with them, be a corporation under the name and style of the Portland Dry Dock and Insurance Companv, who, together with their successors, as- signs and associates, shall be a body corporate and politic, for the term of twenty years from the pas- sage of this act, and under that name may, as a natu- raf person, be made capable in law, to have, purchase lease, receive, powess, enjoy and retain to them and

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