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ChAP. 'Yin.
WIlt Jet incorporui1fiig ft eoinpai1 'to establish a Turn pie
dou from the City if Richmond t o or itear the N'ew-Bri&
j, ,s erectcd acrosa 'lucktalhainy river.
EPassed Jamnury 30th, 1816.]
Rooks to be o -3) E it eitncted bil the General sembly, [hat It shall be
peied at Riclh -_) lawful to open hooks tit lite Ea.le ravern in tie city
mond for receiv-
jngsubscripti. O'Riiehinond, ulnder the direction o Gvorge Hay, 3ohn
IMM Adanis, John Pr'ice, Valler Shelton, Williana Street, John
SNew, Ishani Godwin, Daniel lHa'wood, (eorge Blakey, Wil-
&mount* ecap!- Earia It. Maeom, nd ,James (Govanll, . r eiving anid enter.
ing silbstriptions to the amount of t wtmly-live thousand do].
Jars, fit thits purpose of ntakin; a Ttirnpike road frota tle
city of Richittond ; beginning at the{ most eligible point, and
from thnee proceeding omi ihe most pIi'Iaivable Itote to Old
fot o the hill at the tkwI)innlion of the flat land on Ciieha.
ltointiiiy rivel', el%Silox said riveri ni or neat' (lIe Now-Bridges
created atross I le salte river ; which sni shall he divided
jak, ive hundr~ed shares of fiftly dollars each, lind the sub-
serieitions he Imado il) personl, or by power of tI'v: in
%iiinia euvniey.
-How long to 2. The tlsitliption hooks shall remain open until lte first
fontnue open. day of l)eeelithet. eighteen hundred and sixteen, at w hich
o'cneral meeting litnl heIret shall be a general meeting of (he subscribers in
if the subcri. the city or Rliehnionl ; to cunstilito which, a nivjority of
hers, wfhe antt snhaserilevs. either in person or hy proxy properly nuthoris.
where, and hwim ed. shall he necessaiy ; and i' a sufficient unmber of subseri-
htbers do not attend on that day, those who do attend shall
have power to adjourn from day to day until a meeting shall
be formed, of which meeting one month's notice shall be giv-
oi in ono of the newspapers prinled in the City orRiebhmond,
and by advert ni~ ent at each oft lo places vi hero tile sub.
sCri!ilo.s may have been opened by the managers before
Inenlionel.
! nipanv to be fit ,roll appear to this meeting, on examination of th.
intorpo ated by* books. that one h'dfoi'the capital sun before umentioned shall
thenameofthe Iave been sbseriled, thenI tlie said subscribers, their heirs
Chickahominy
.TurnpikeCom. Rad assigns, from tile time or tile said mecting shall be, and
,any. ty'ar hereby declared to be incorporated into a company
by the naont of T he Chickahomniny Turnpike Company,'.-
ind tiy sue anid he sued as such.
Imeaident, liD- 4. Th )e i', :it thieir general meeting before direct.
,rectors, Trcasu. c4, shah elect a President, five Dil-eetors, a Treasurer,' and
Z.Icwd ther o . suel.lotlher oihfeers as they shall think necessary to conduct
o to - the liwines s of tle said'eoniupany, who shall continue in of-
fe ony.year, but may at any general meeting of the subseri-
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