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November.
LAWS of MARYLAND. |
CHAP.
XXXVIII.
Monies appropriated. |
the clerk of the house of delegates three hundred dollars, the printer
to the state one thousand
four hundred dollars, the messenger to the council two hundred and fifty
dollars.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all monies which
shall remain in the treasury, after discharging
the journal of accounts, and all unappropriated money which may come into
the treasury, be first
applied to the payment of the civil list for the ensuing year. |
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CHAP. XXXIX.
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Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Commissioners
appointed, &c.
Plot to be recorded,
&c.
Commissioners
allowance.
Invested with
the same powers,
&c. |
An additional supplement to an act, entitled, An act to streighten
and amend the public roads in Harford county, and for
other
purposes.
WHEREAS a public road leading from Belle-Air, to intersect the road
leading from Thomas
Underhill's mill to Peach Bottom Ferry, at Glasgow's store, will be a great
public convenience,
and is essentially necessary; therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John Forwood, of William, Sedgewick James, John Montgomery,
(State Ridge,) William Welsh and Bennet Bussey, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a public road, beginning at Belle-Air,
so as to pursue the
direction of the Bald Friar Road leading from Belle-Air as aforesaid at
or near the plantation of
Henrietta Wheeler, and thence to run in a direction so as to intersect
a public road from Thomas
Underhill's mill to Peach Bottom Ferry at Glasgow's store; and in laying
out the said road the said
commissioners are directed to take into view, as well all the disadvantages
which may result to individuals
over whose land the said road may run, as the convenience of the public,
so as to lay out
the said road with as little injury to private property as will comport
with the public convenience.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
are hereby further directed to return a
plot of said road, so by them laid out, to the clerk's office of said county,
to be there recorded; and
the levy court may, at their discretion, after the return of said plot
as aforesaid, appoint a supervisor
or supervisors to open the same, and shall levy a sum of money, not exceeding
one hundred and
fifty dollars, for that purpose; and the said road, when opened as aforesaid,
shall be taken for, and
it is hereby declared to be, a public road in said county, and may be repaired
as other public roads
are repaired in said county.
IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
appointed in virtue of this act shall be entitled
to an allowance of two dollars for every day they shall severally attend
in discharge of the duties
herein imposed.
V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
herein before named be and they are hereby
vested with the same powers in ascertaining the damages to the land over
which the road herein directed
to be laid out may run, as the commissioners in the original act named
have been vested with;
and the said damages, when ascertained, shall be levied, collected and
paid, as damages heretofore
assessed under the said original act have been levied, collected and paid. |
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CHAP. XL.
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Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Title vested,
&c. |
An ACT for the relief
of William Works, of Cæcil county.
WHEREAS William Works, of Cæcil county, having emigrated to,
and settled in, this state,
and since his emigration and settlement in this state has acquired real
property therein, and
his title to such property from his not having become naturalized before
such property was acquired
by him, may be called in question, to his great injury and detriment; therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the title to all the real property,
lawfully and fairly acquired by the aforesaid William Works, whether such
title be derived by grant,
gift, purchase or devise, be and the same is hereby as amply and as fully
vested in him, the said
William Works, to all intents and purposes, as if he had been naturalized
before his title to such
real property had been acquired; provided always, that nothing in this
act contained shall be construed
in any manner to affect any right or claim to the said property acquired
by any person or persons
before the passing of this act; and provided also, that unless the said
William Works shall, on or
before the first day of June next, proceed according to law to make himself
a citizen of the United
States, this act shall have no effect to confirm his title to the property
above mentioned, nor shall he, |
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