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An Act incorporating a company to establish a Turnpike Road from Shepherd's Town to Winchester. 1815 153 (1815)

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tei1ep on hi or her bare back, by direction of a magistrabi,
terilIasihces.
io. And if any slave, o' biber driver, ot' any such carriage,
'sliall aill to drive a: ai'r'esaid, in Consequenec of tile diree-
tion 6f Irs or her Iaster, mistress, or otlier person tuider
whose eontrol sirdi drivel. 111ay ie, then such  arstts',  is-
lreqs:, or otiier person so cottroling Such driver, shall he still-
t'et to io said tine of two dollars, to be recovered andti p-
|fliedi as aforesaid.
V). .110ru be it ufarher ennected, That i1 tihe said company
slill iot bci t  e work  ithin two years after tire said eorn-
pany shall be VorrhIr'd, or sh:al ltt CotlrlrletLt tire saiire, with-
hi seven ICars ilheat'ter hill tire Irallner' herein helIore di-
reeled, then tliall lie ilvr'est of tile said company in tlt)
road ilrrl t6lls aori'csirid ie o'rleiltrd ard etaw'e.
21. The tolls hereirn alhowt'd shall be subject to tile con.
trol ol'the Iegishaltur', ut (Ie enl o' tel years after tire eorn-
pletion of tie said road, oral any litle thereafter ; prorided,
Ilhat they shall not be bo r'educd :s to Irake (hemic less than
ill'teen per centurr l)et• innirn, fret proiit, on tire stirr, actu-
ally expended in coinph'ling the said roadi, to Inq calculated
from  thre periods of contribution by the stockholders.
22. And the Directors are herey r|,quird to repoi't to
the Exeeutive tire inount of tie capital expendcd in coit-
leting tire said r'oad, whenever tile salie sh~tll e ith11shd ;
J;'ollidct, (ttlO, that nothin iee'il eontaliled shall atthor-
iso tire said 'ounpany to domurrd toll from  tiny public rcs-
senger,.
2.,. This Act shall be in orce fron the passae thrci'cof

Pr'vision for tlni
caic or t Slave
acting by his
naster':j dir'ed'
tion,
By what neglec
the privilee o1'
the couopafy
may be forfeitcd,
At what tCre
the tolls shall be
sultict to tie
control, or ti1
Iegilstaturc.
Ilow far rhicv
may be reduccd
Reports to be
made by   the
Directors to the
Executive.
Commencement,

CHAP. LX V.
dn At ineorporaling a cospany to establish a Tnrnpike'
Road J'rom Shepherd's Town to Winchester.
[1Passed January 31st, 1816.]
.B   E it eitcted by the General Assemblij, Tat it shall Blooksfrreeeiv.
be lawlnt  to open [ooks at Shcphril's 'T'own in the ing snbscripti-
6ounty of Jeffierson, thitder tile direction of John lnkel., t_ ois where and
-by whom to he
braiani Sheplerd, Daniel Bedinger, Ienry Jine, John Line, openmtb
John WVeingard, John T. Cookis, Janies Kerney, Walte'iol.
Selhy, James Brown, Prestley Marinaduh'e, John Unseld,
Thomas S. Bennett, or either of them ; at Smithield ill tire
county aforesaid, under the direction of Willian P. Flood,
Scbastian Eaty, Rutiel Fry, Moses Smitl, Set It Siriti,, or
either of thern ; at Witcihestcr in the eunly of' rederiek,
untder the directio of Aichiiald Magill, Jured Wiliiairra,'
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