Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Division line
ascertained,
&c. |
An ACT, entitled, A supplement to an act, entitled, An act to
regulate elections.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that the commissioners
appointed for
Washington county, under the act of seventeen hundred and ninety-nine,
entitled, An act
to regulate elections, have not sufficiently designated the line of division
between district number
four and district number five; for remedy whereof,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the division line between district
number four and five, in Washington county, shall be closed and completed
by a line drawn
due north from the head of the Green Spring furnace run, to intersect the
Pennsylvania line, and
that the division hereby ascertained shall be of the same avail, and have
in all respects the same
effect, as if the same had been particularly designated in the return of
the commissioners appointed
under the act to which this is a supplement. |
Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Commissioners
appointed, &c.
Who are to return
a plot, &c.
And apply to a
justice, &c. |
An ACT for opening a road leading from the town of Bladensburgh,
in Prince-George's county, to the city of Washington,
until it intersects the present road at or near
the district line of
Columbia.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of
Prince-George's county, that the great mail road leading from Bladensburgh
to the city of
Washington is very circuitous, and passes over bad ground; therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Benjamin Lowndes, Richard T.
Lowndes, Thomas Dick, Patrick Daugherty and Joseph Queen, be and they are
hereby appointed
commissioners to lay out a public road from the town of Bladensburgh
aforesaid, in the nearest and
best direction that the situation of the county will admit, to the city
of Washington, until it intersects
the present road at or near the district line of Columbia; and the said
commissioners, or any
three or more of them, are hereby directed 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 directed to return a plot of
said road, when by them laid out, to the clerk's office of Prince-George's
county, to be there recorded;
and the levy court shall, after the return of said plot as aforesaid, appoint
a supervisor or
supervisors to open the same, and shall levy on the assessable property
of the said county a sum of money,
not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, for that purpose; and the
said road, when opened as
aforesaid, shall be taken for, and is hereby declared to be, a public road
in said county, and shall be
repaired as other public roads are repaired in said county; provided nevertheless,
that nothing herein
contained shall authorise the said commissioners to lay out the said road
through the yard, garden,
orchard or meadow, of any person without the consent of the owner thereof;
and provided also,
that the said road shall not be opened through the lands of any minor
or minors without the consent
of his, her or their guardian or guardians.
IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or any three or more of them, shall
and they are hereby directed to apply to any justice of the peace for the
county aforesaid, who shall
issue his warrant, under hand and seal, directed to the sheriff of said
county, commanding him to summon
five freeholders, disinterested as to the lands, and not connected with
any person through whose
lands the said road may pass, to appear at a place and on a day by him
to be appointed, and after taking
the following oath, or affirmation, as the case may be, to wit: "
I, A. B. do swear, or solemnly,
" sincerely and truly declare and affirm, that I will honestly and faithfully
estimate and value the damage
" and injury sustained by C. D. by opening a road through the land of the
said C. D. in pursuance
" of the directions of this act," shall proceed to ascertain and value
what damages may be
sustained by any person or persons through whose land the said road may
pass by opening and clearing
the same, and shall return the damages by them assessed to the clerk of
the said county, and the damages
so assessed shall be conclusive. |
