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WILLIAM PACA, Esq; Governor.
CHAP. XVII.
An ACT to empower the justices of Montgomery county to assess and levy
a sum
of money on the inhabitants of said county, for the
purposes therein mentioned.
The sum to be levied is £. 800,
at two equal assessments, in 1785 and 1786. It is to be paid to the
commissioners appointed by an act of the convention on the 6th of September,
1776, for building a
court-house and prison, and by them applied to the purposes of their appointment. |
1784. |
CHAP. XVIII.
A Bill, entitled, An ACT for underpinning and arching the court-house,
of Baltimore county, in Baltimore-town, and the extension
of Calvert-street. |
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WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the court-house
in the town of Baltimore, by its position on a hill about twenty
feet above the pitch of Calvert-street, and be crossing the street in a
due east and west course, checks the town both in its growth and prosperity,
inasmuch
as the extent of Calvert-street is limited by the court-house, and all
direct
intercourse with the country thereby prevented: And whereas it is
represented,
that the said court-house, being underpinned and arched, that is to say,
be three arches added to the building on the south side, and an equal number
of
corresponding arches on the north side, the center arches to be twenty-eight
feet
in the clear and eighteen feet high, the others six feet in the clear and
twelve feet
high, or thereabout, would thereby open a direct communication with the
country,
and permit the pitch of the street to be continued without damage to the
said
court-house, and that persons are disposed to undertake the same at their
own expence
and risk: And whereas this general assembly is desirous to promote
an undertaking
of so laudable a nature: Therefore, |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the justices of
Baltimore county court, or any three or more of them, are hereby empowered
and directed, when called on by the person or persons, who may or shall
undertake,
at his or their own expence and risk, to underpin and arch the court-house,
in Calvert-street, in Baltimore-town, in Baltimore county, to take a bond,
in
the name of the justices of Baltimore county, with sufficient security,
to be approved
of by the said court of Baltimore county, from such person or persons,
to
oblige and bind such person or persons to arch the said court-house, the
said person
or persons to arch the same with three arches on the south side of the
said
court-house, and an equal number of corresponding arches on the north side,
the
center corresponding arches to be twenty-eight feet in the clear and eighteen
feet
high each, or thereabout, the other arches six feet in clear and twelve
feet
high each, or thereabout, and the whole to complete with good and sufficient
materials in a reasonable time, so that the pitch of Calvert-street may
be continued
through the court-house aforesaid by means of the said arches and underpinning;
and in case any damage or injury shall be done to the said court-house
by or during the progress of the said work, that the person or persons,
bound as
aforesaid, shall and will repair the same at his or their own proper
costs and expence;
and in case the said building shall be thrown or fall down in consequence
of the aforesaid underpinning or arching, or undertaking and attempting
to arch
and underpin the court-house as aforesaid, or its foundation be rendered
thereby
less secure, the aforesaid person or persons shall and will pay to the
justices of Baltimore
county aforesaid, the sum of ten thousand pounds current money, so much
thereof as is necessary for the purpose to be laid out by the said justices
in building
a new court-house of equal value with the present court-house, or in making
the said foundation secure, and in paying and discharging all expences
whatsoever,
which may be incurred by the county of Baltimore, in consequence of any
damage
or accident to the said court-house or its foundation, arising from the
undertaking
aforesaid; and the residue, if any, of the said sum, to be by the said
justices repaid to the person or persons bounds as aforesaid; and the said
justices
shall and may, in their names, bring suit on the said bond, and the same
prosecute
to judgment and execution, for the recovery of the said sum of money or
any
part thereof, to be applied to the purposes aforesaid. |
Court-house
to be arched,
&c. |
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