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An Act relating to the public roads in Caroline county. 1822 34 (1822)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0085 and id is 1 raw text is: 4 . SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.l Dec.9s. 182t choose by ballot six Mani.gers, who when they shall have been or- .ganized by their electing a President either' from among their own body or the stockholders, shall have full, power and authority to ap- point a treasurer, and such. other officers as shall be deemed by then necessary to conduct the business of the said Comany, arid the same to remove, reappoint, and theirown vacancies to fill at thei.will and pleasure. Incorporation -4. And be it enacted, That all persons who %hall become subscrib- ,ers to the said Company, their successors and assigns, shall be and are hereby made a corporation and body politic, by the name and style of the Presilde'nt and Managers of the High Street Wharf Company, and by the same name the said subscrihcrs, and their successors ,and assigns, shall have succession, and shall have all the privileges and frafichises of or incidental' re a corporation, and shall be'capable of purchasing and taking to themselves, and their succes- sors, all such lands, tenements, hereditaments, and estate real mid personal, as shall be necessary to them in the prosecution of their work and to carry into effect tle intentions of this.act, and of suing and being sued, answering and being answered, defend and being defended, and the said Company shall have power to make a com- mon seal, and alter, break and renew the same at ploasure. 'Payments. - 5. And be it enacted, That the sum so subscribed shall be paid -to -the President and Managers, elected agreeably to this act in the manner following, -to wit; one fifth part thereof (including the one dollar paid to the Commissioners at the time of subscribing) at the end of one month after the election of Managers, and the remainder -in such sums and at such times and places as 'the President and board of Managers shall appoint, they giving at least thirty days notice of the payments so required in the newpapers aforesaiil. and in case of failure to make payments as shall be required, all antecedent pay, ments shall 'be forfited. Election 6. And be it enacted, That the Managers first elected as aforesaid iPowers&c. shall hold their seats until 'the first Monday in November next fol- lowing the election to be made agreeably to the mode prescribed as aforesaid, .and upon the first Monday of November in each and every year thereafter, there shall be a new election for six Managers who shall on'the second Monday of Nov'ember, -proceed to elect thir President, and the President and Managers thus annually elected shall have full power and authority to make, alter and repeal by-laws for their government, Provided always, that they are not inconsistent with or repugnant to this act, and the laws of this state- 'rolls. .7. And be it enacted, That the President and Managers so soon as the said wharf shall be finished, shall have full power to impose such reasonable tolls or wharfage for the use of the same, and to adopt such regulations for the management of -the said Wharf, as they may think right ind just. Repeal. 3. And be it enacted, 'hat an act of Assembly passed at Decem. ber session eighteen hundred and seventeen, chapter two hundred and twenty five, be and the same is hereby absolutely repealed, and all other laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act. CHAPTER 58. Passed Jan. An act relating to tiwpublic roads in carolhne county 18,ab. WHEREAS the present mode of repairing the public roads in Caro- ,Prenble. line county, is found hy experienc to be imperfect, and subject to The quality of these images represent the quality of the microfiche that was digitized.

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