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November.
LAWS of MARYLAND. |
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CHAP. LXX.
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Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Whole land to
be surveyed,
&c. |
An ACT for the direction of surveyors in executing warrants of
escheat in certain cases.
WHEREAS under the existing rules and regulations for the conduct of
surveyors difficulties
have occurred in executing warrants of escheat; for remedy whereof,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That in cases where warrants of escheat
shall be hereafter delivered to the surveyor of any county to execute,
in order to survey lands held
in tenancy in common, and the part only of one or more of the said
tenants in common hath become
liable to escheat, it shall be the duty of the said surveyor, and he is
hereby directed and required, to
cause the whole of the said land so held in tenancy in common to be surveyed,
and a certificate thereof
returned into the land-office, specifying the value of the whole tract
of land, and improvements
thereon, and after examination of the said certificate, and payment to
the treasurer of the western
or eastern shore, (as the case may be,) of two thirds of the valuation
of the escheatable part of the
land therein expressed, a patent shall issue in due time to the party in
whose name the said certificate
may be returned, or his heirs or assigns, for the undivided portion of
the land that may be liable to
escheat as aforesaid. |
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CHAP. LXXI.
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Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Title to be
complete, &c. |
An ACT for the relief of John Jarvis.
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general assembly, by the petition
of John Jarvis,
that in the month of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, he purchased
from Benjamin
Howard, the late sheriff of Anne-Arundel county, one part of two lots of
ground, number one
hundred, and number one hundred and one, for the sum of forty pounds, with
the improvements thereon, in
the city of Annapolis, situated on East-street, and paid the purchase money,
which said lots, or part
of said lots, was then sold by virtue of a writ of fieri facias,
issued at the instance of the state of
Maryland against, and taken as, the property of Thomas Rutland, and
that Benjamin Howard departed
this life without having executed any deed for the conveyance of the said
lot to the said John
Jarvis; therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the title of John Jarvis to the
aforesaid lots, or part of said lots, shall be as complete and valid in
law as if the said Benjamin
Howard, as sheriff aforesaid, had, in his life-time, executed to the said
John Jarvis, his heirs and
assigns for ever, a deed of bargain and sale for the same. |
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CHAP. LXXII.
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Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Commissioners
appointed, &c. |
An ACT to open a road from the Pennsylvania line, through Emmitsburgh
and Creager's-town, to intersect the main road from
Lancaster to the city of Washington at or near Frederick-town,
in
Frederick county.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition
of sundry inhabitants
of Frederick county, that it would be of great advantage to themselves,
and the public in
general, to have a road opened from the Pennsylvania line, near the end
of the widow Caldwell's
lane, through Emmittsburgh and Creager's-town, to intersect the main road
leading from Lancaster
to the city of Washington at or near Frederick-town, in Frederick county;
therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Patrick Read, Thomas Beatty,
senior, and Henry Kuhn, of Frederick county, or any two of them, be and
they are hereby appointed
commissioners to survey, lay out and open, at the expence of the petitioners,
or any part of them,
particularly interested therein, a road, not exceeding forty feet in width,
in the best and streightest
direction, from the aforesaid Pennsylvania line, near the end of the widow
Caldwell's lane, through
Emmittsburgh and Creager's-town, to intersect the main road leading from
Lancaster to the city of
Washington at or near Frederick-town, in Frederick county; and the said
road, when so opened at
the expence of the petitioners as aforesaid, and the valuation herein after
directed to be made shall
be paid, or secured to be paid, to the individuals concerned, shall be
recorded among the records of
Frederick county court, and be thereafter deemed to be a public road for
ever. |
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