Beautiful partially issued stock certificate from the Washington Turnpike Company issued in 1819. This historic document has an ornate border around it. This item has the hand signed signature of the Company's Treasurer, John Murdoch, and is over 192 years old. Washington Turnpike Company. An act supplementary to the act entitled "An act to authorize and empower the president and managers of the Washington Turnpike Company of the State of Maryland, when organized, to extend and make their turnpike road to or from Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, through the said district, to the line thereof." March 3, 1819.