| 1784. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
CHAP. XIV.
An ACT to confirm the title of Edward Lloyd in and to a tract of land
in Talbot
county, called Soldiers Delight. PR. |
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CHAP. XV.
An ACT to prevent the obstruction of the navigation of the eastern
and north-west branches of the river Patowmack. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that great numbers
of wears and hedges have of late been erected in and upon the
eastern and north-west branches of Patowmack river, near the town
of Bladensburg, to the great injury of the navigation of the said river
and of the
trade of the said town; Therefore, |
Wears, &c.
may be pulled
down, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by
the general assembly of Maryland, That all wears and
hedges, already made or hereafter to be made, in the eastern and north-west
branches of the river Patowmack, which obstruct or hinder the free
navigation
thereof, shall be, and are hereby deemed and declared, nuisances, and
may be, by
any person or persons, pulled down, prostrated and abated, as such. |
Not to be erected,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That no person or persons whatsoever shall, after the
first
day of April next, put, place or make, any wear or hedge, or any other
erection,
which may injure the navigation in the said eastern or north-west branch
of the river
Patowmack, under the penalty of five pounds current money for every
such offence,
to be recovered before any magistrate of the county of Prince-George's,
one half to the informer, or him or them that will sue for or prosecute
to effect
for the same, the other half to the use of this state. |
Penalty on
fishing, &c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That any person or persons who shall fish any such
wear or hedge, already erected, or which shall hereafter be erected,
so as to obstruct
or injure the navigation in the said eastern or north-west branch of
the said
river Patowmack, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum
of three
pounds current money, to be recovered and applied as herein before
directed. |
Wears not to
be erected above
Bladensburg,
&c. |
V. And be it
enacted, That all wears and hedges already made, or hereafter
to be made, upon the water above the town of Bladensburg, so as to
obstruct the
natural course of the said water, or to cause the said water to overflow
any part of
the said town of Bladensburg, shall be deemed and taken to be nuisances,
and
may be abated as such; and any person making, erecting or fishing,
such hedge or
wear, after the first day of April next, shall forfeit for every such
offence the sum
of five pounds current money, to be recovered and applied as aforesaid. |
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CHAP. XVI.
An ACT to ascertain, establish and perpetuate, the
bounds of the
public grounds at Queen's-town. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the commissioners of Queen-Anne's county,
appointed to
sell the court-house and prison, with the public grounds, at Queen's-town,
cannot sell of dispose of the same without previously settling the
bounds thereof: Therefore, |
Public ground
to be laid off,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the commissioners
of Queen-Anne's county for laying off the public grounds on Corsica-creek,
and
for selling the public property at Queen's-town, be and they are hereby
authorised
and empowered to lay off the public ground at Queen's-town, and make a
plot of the same, and to take and reduce to writing all evidence and proof
to the
bounds and location of the said ground, and the same, with the plot by
them
made, to record among the records of Queen-Anne's county, in perpetual
memory
of the said bounds and location. |
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