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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 3 STAT. · April 16, 1816 · Chapter XLVII

Chapter XLVII. supplementary to an act, entitled “An act to incorporate a company for making certain turnpike roads within the district of Columbia.”April 16, 1816. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the The company incorporated by the act of April 20, 1810, ch. 26, may extend the road

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Chap. XLVII.— An Act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act to incorporate a company for making certain turnpike roads within the district of Columbia.”April 16, 1816. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the The company incorporated by the act of April 20, 1810, ch. 26, may extend the road. United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the company for making certain turnpike roads in the district of Columbia, established by an act of Congress, passed on the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten, be authorized and empowered to open and make a turnpike road, at their own risk and expense, from the eastern branch bridge, to meet a road to be opened and made under the authority of the state of Maryland, from Edward H.
Calvert’s mill, in Prince George’s county, to the line of the district of Columbia. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the said company may demand Tolls. and receive the same tolls as are allowed for a like distance by the act to which this is a supplement, and shall possess and enjoy the same rights and privileges, and be subject to the same limitations, pains and penalties, as are prescribed, enjoined and directed by the aforesaid act, and an act in addition thereto, passed on the twenty-fifth day of April, 1810, ch. 27. one thousand eight hundred and ten.
Approved, April 16, 1816.
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