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Session Laws, 1800
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BENJAMIN OGLE, Esquire, Governor.                                        November.
1800.
    III.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners may appoint one of their number as
treasurer, and give him a certificate, under their hands, of his appointment, who is hereby enjoined
and empowered to collect and receive all monies subscribed, or that may be subscribed, for the purpose
of opening the said road, and such subscribers are hereby directed to pay their several subscriptions
to the treasurer appointed as aforesaid; and if any person shall neglect or refuse, when
applied to by the aforesaid treasurer, to pay his subscription money, the said treasurer may, and he is
hereby authorised to sue for, recover and receive, the same; and the said monies, when received,
shall be applied by the commissioners, or any two of them, to the purpose of this act.

    IV.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners aforesaid shall ascertain and value what
damages may be sustained by any person or persons through whose land the said road may pass, by
opening the same, and the said valuation shall be made before the said commissioners shall proceed to
open the same; provided always, that if any person or persons through whose land the said road
shall pass, or his, her or their guardian or trustee, shall conceive themselves aggrieved by such valuation
and assessment of damages by the said commissioners, it shall and may be lawful for any justice
of the peace of the said county of Frederick, on application of the party interested, to issue his warrant,
under hand and seal, directed to any constable of the county, commanding him to summon five
freeholders, disinterested as to the said road, to appear, on a day by him to be appointed, on the land
of the person making application as aforesaid, and the said freeholders, having first made oath before
some justice of the peace, that they will, without favour, affection, prejudice or partiality, assess the
damages sustained by the person or persons at whose request such inquisition shall be taken, by reason
of opening the aforesaid road through his, her or their land, shall thereupon proceed to assess and
value the damages accordingly, of which the said commissioners shall have had at least five days previous
notice, and shall return the damages so assessed to the said justice of the peace, and such inquisition
and valuation shall be final and conclusive; and the party or parties in whose favour the valuation
ascertained by the said commissioners, or the damages assessed by the said freeholders, shall be
made, shall be entitled to receive the same from the said commissioners; and the said commissioners
shall pay, or secure to be paid, the amount of the said valuation or damages to the respective parties
entitled to the same, out of the monies to be raised and collected from the subscriptions to the said
road, within the space of six months after the assessment of such valuation or damages, and before
they shall proceed to affect the lands and tenements of the person or persons concerned; provided,
that the said road shall not go through any houses, gardens, yards, meadows or orchards, unless with
the consent of the owner thereof.

CHAP.
LXXII.
Who may appoint
a treasurer,
&c.






And ascertain
damages, &c.
CHAP. LXXIII.
An ACT to extend the powers of the trustees of the poor of Montgomery
                                                            county,

WHEREAS Elizabeth Gates, by her petition to this general assembly hath set forth, that she
is now in the ninetieth year of her age; that from her advanced age and bodily infirmities
she has for a number of years been unable to support herself, and hath no means whereby to subsist,
for her future maintenance out of the poor's house; therefore,

    II.  BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
trustees of the poor of the said county of Montgomery, if they shall be of opinion that the peculiar
circumstances of the said Elizabeth Gates are such as to render a situation in the poor-house particularly
unsuitable for her, to support her as an out-pensioner, in addition to the number now allowed
by the act, entitled, An act to enlarge the powers of the trustees of the poor in the several counties
therein designated, and to allow to the said Elizabeth Gates an annual pension, not exceeding thirty
dollars, to be paid at such time or times as the said trustees shall direct, the amount of which said
pension shall be levied in the same manner as the other expences of the poor-house in the said county.

Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.

Preamble.





E. Gates to be

supported, &c.
 
CHAP. LXXIV.
An ACT to levy on the assessable property of Anne-Arundel county
        a sum of money for the purpose herein after mentioned.

WHEREAS by an act of assembly, passed at November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-one,
entitled, An act to lay out certain roads in Anne-Arundel and Montgomery counties,
it was enacted, that one road through Anne-Arundel county, from the turnpike road in Baltimore
county, until it intersects the road from Frederick-town at the line of Frederick county, near William
Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.

Preamble.
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