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BENJAMIN OGLE, Esquire, Governor.
November.
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1800. |
person shall have been condemned, and which condemnation shall appear
to the said justices by the
record of conviction; but if such person shall be demanded by the state
from whence he escaped, he
shall be immediately delivered agreeably to such demand.
IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every grand and
petit juror attending the said court shall have an
allowance of seventeen cents for every day's attendance, in addition to
the allowance prescribed by
the act to which this is a supplement, to be assessed and collected
with the county assessment. |
CHAP.
XXXI.
Jurors allowance. |
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CHAP. XXXII.
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An ACT to authorise and empower the levy court of Charles county
to assess and levy a sum of money for the purpose of
repairing
and improving the public road leading from Port-Tobacco
through
the Zachia Swamp at the Old Bridges.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by sundry inhabitants
of Charles county,
that the road leading from Port-Tobacco over the Zachia Swamp, at a place
known by the
name of the Old Bridges, is frequently impassable, to the great inconvenience
of those who travel
the said road, and it appears reasonable that the same should be repaired
and improved.
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the levy court of Charles county be
and they are hereby authorised, empowered and directed, at their next annual
meeting for the purpose
of levying their county tax, to levy and assess on the assessable property
of said county a sum of
money, not exceeding five hundred dollars, for the purpose of repairing
and improving that part of
the road leading from Port-Tobacco, over the Zachia Swamp, which runs through
the said swamp
at a place called the Old Bridges.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That William Barton
Smoot, of Charles, Raphael Boarman, Samuel
Chapman, William Morris and Raphael Jameson, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners,
and that any two or more of them shall have full power to contract with
any person or persons for
repairing and improving the said road through the said swamp, in any manner
which to them shall
seem best calculated to render the same passable and convenient to
those who travel the same.
IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said sum of
money so as aforesaid to be assessed and levied,
shall be collected by the collector of the county levy, with the allowance
of six per cent. to said collector,
and by them applied to the payment of the expences of the repairs and improvements
on the said road.
V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or any two or more of them, who shall
have acted, shall, on the completion of the said improvements, account
with the levy court at their
next meeting which shall happen thereafter for the monies by them expended
on the said road. |
Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Court to levy
money, &c.
Commissioners
appointed, &c.
Money to be
collected, &c.
Commissioners
to account, &c. |
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CHAP. XXXIII.
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An ACT for the relief of William Ballenger, Basil Dorsey and Anthony
Poultney, of Frederick county.
WHEREAS it hath been represented to this general assembly, by the petitions
of William Ballenger,
Basil Dorsey and Anthony Poultney, of Frederick county, that a certain
Thomas
Hunter of the said county did, on the twenty-fourth day of December,
in the year one thousand
seven hundred and ninety-eight, convey unto the said William Ballenger
a part of a tract of land
called Carolina, and part of the resurvey thereon, lying an being in the
county aforesaid; and that
the said Thomas Hunter did, on the fifth day of January, in the year one
thousand seven hundred and
ninety-nine, convey to the above named anthony Poultney, all that tract
or parcel of land called Carolina,
according to a conveyance from a certain Stephen Winchester to said Thomas
Hunter, bearing
date on the twenty-sixth day of October, in the year one thousand seven
hundred and ninety-eight,
except the quantity of one hundred and eighty-four and one quarter acres
of land, conveyed
to the aforesaid William Ballenger on the twenty-fourth day of December,
in the year one thousand
seven hundred and ninety-eight; and that the said Thomas Hunter did, on
the fifteenth day of January,
one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, convey to the aforesaid Basil
Dorsey, part of a
tract or parcel of land called Sugar Tree Valley, and part of a tract or
parcel of land called the
Addition to Sugar Tree Valley, and part of a tract or parcel of land
called Second Addition to Sugar |
Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble. |
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