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[No. 3 



exist no claims or demands ajjainst said company, 

 and sucli dividend shall have been ordered by the 

 Etocliholders in general meeiing, and alter three 

 months' previous notice in some newspaper in the 

 neighborhood, or by some otlier convenient mode 

 of notification. 



14. Whenever four-fifths of the capital stock of 

 Buch compan}^ shall become concentrated by pur- 

 chase or otherwise in the hands of le?.s than five 

 persons, or more than one half of the same shall 

 be and remain in the hands of one person for more 

 than six months, all the corporate powers and pri- 

 vileges granted by the act incorporating such com- 

 pany shall cease and determine. 



1-5. If the company should not be organized by 

 the appointment of a president and directors within 

 two years li'om the passage of the act of incorpora- 

 tion, then all its provisions shall be null and void. 

 And if at any time the company shall suspend 

 their operations for the space of two years, then 

 their rights and privileges shall cease, and their 

 charter shall be forfc^ited. But whensoever the 

 said corporation shall be dissolved, whether by 

 lapse of time or any other cause, their corporate 

 name, with their right to sue and be sued, shall 

 continue for the purpose of collecting the debts 

 due to the company, prosecuting the rights which 

 shall have accrued under their previous contracts, 

 paying the debts due by them, and satisfying all 

 liabilities which they may have incurred, and for 

 the distribution of the property of the corporation 

 among tliose entitled to the same. 



16. That all acts for the incorporation of manu- 

 facturing or mining companies passed after the pas- 

 sage of this act shall continue in force for the period 

 of thirty years and no longer, and shall at all times 

 after the lapse of fifteen years from the organiza- 

 tion of the company be liable to be amended or re- 

 pealed at the pleasure of the legislature, in the 

 earae manner as if an express provision to that 

 effect were therein contained, unless there shall 

 have been inserted in such act of incorporation an 

 express provision to the contrary. 



17. Be it farther enacted, That the president 

 and directors of said company shall exhibit its 

 books and property, condition, &c., to the inspec- 

 tion of such agent or agents as the General Assem- 

 bly may from time to time for that purpose ap- 

 point. 



18. Be it further enacted, That no company 

 claiming the benefit of this act, shall by deed of 

 trust, mortgage or otherwise, incumber their pro- 

 perty for the purpose of giving the preference to 

 one creditor over another; and that whenever any 

 Buch deed or mortgage shall be given to any one 

 or more creditors, it shall enure to the benefit of all 

 the creditors of such company existing at the time 

 of such conveyance, and all such creditors shall be 

 entitled to rateable satisfaction out of the property 

 embraced by such conveyance. 



19. This act shall commence and be in force 

 from and after the passage thereof. 



the soil, &c. During the two first years the engi- 

 neer was able, in the course of 40 English miles, 

 to cut no less than 696,465 cubic yards, and to con- 

 struct 907,844 cubic yards of embankment, be- 

 sides laying the way with malleable rails. He 

 erected during these two years 73 bridges from 

 three to eighteen yards each, with 133 culverts; 

 and he also made 233 waffons. And all this at 

 an expense of about £ 75,200. 



GERMAN RAILROADS. 



It is a remarkable fact, that in the formation of 

 the railway between Prague and Pilsen, the indi- 

 viduals employed were chiefl}^ females, each of 

 wbose wages amounted to Qd. a day. There 

 were upwards of 2000 regularly engaged as la- 

 borers, in forming the embankmer^ts, excavating 



From the London IMagazinc for 1746. 



OESERVATIOTS IX SEVERAL VOYAGES ANI> 

 TRAVELS IN AMERICA. 



[Continued from page 327.] 



Manjland and Virginia. 



And now let me address me to my journey^ 

 which lay in a very pleasant road, through the 

 woods, that every now and then presented you 

 with an opening plantation. "We met an Indian 

 man and woman upon this road, who came from 

 a town of wigwams, near Snow-Hill, where they 

 inhabit, in great peace, with their neighbors. We 

 passed several branches * and savannahs, and the 

 road all the way is pretty much upon the level, and 

 marshy; the soil of the upper grounds a loose red- 

 dish sand or earth. At our arrival at Snow-Hill, I 

 took up quarters at an ordinaiy, f and found them 

 very good. The parson of the parish, who haa 

 the only brick house in town, was a good conver- 

 sible man, as was also the presbyterian minister, 

 a Scotchman, of which nation great numbers are 

 settled hereabouts. The church and all the hou- 

 ses are built of wood, but some of them have brick 

 stacks of chimne3s: some have their foundations 

 in the ground, others are built on puncheons or 

 logs, a foot or two from the earth, which is more 

 airy, and a defence against the vermin. The 

 women here are very pretty, and the men, for the 

 generality obliging enough. The town is very ir- 

 regular, and has much the aspect of a country fair,, 

 the generality of the houses differing very litde 

 from booths. We staid here only one day, and 

 the next set forward with hired horses, not being 

 able to buy any in the town. The hire was a 

 shilling sterling per day for each horse, and a shil- 

 ling per day for a guide. They are good service- 

 able little creatures, J and travel at a great rate. 

 The next night we got to the line that divides 

 Maryland fi"om Virginia, being about thirty miles, 

 through a road whose delightliil scenes constantly 

 refreshed the senses with new and beauteous ob- 

 jects. And here I cannot helj) quoting JMr. Levvis, 

 when speaking of another road in this colony, he 

 says; 



But now the enclosed plantation I forsake, 

 And onwards through the woods my journey take; 

 The level road the longsomevvay beguiles, 

 A blooming wilderness around me smiles; 

 Here hardy oak, there fragrant hickory grows. 



* A branch is a stream running across the road, from 

 some neighboring creek or river. 



\ Or tavern, eating house, or inn. 



X And live most "prodigiously fiard. At night, you 

 need only tether them out, and they pick subsistence 

 enough in their station. I have known them go six 

 days journey without a feed of corn; having nothing 

 but the stallis of Indian wheat, and such other litter as 

 they could pick up. 



