| 1800. |
November.
LAWS of MARYLAND. |
CHAP.
LXXIV.
Court to settle
the sum due,
&c.
Levy money,
&c.
And take
bond, &c. |
Hobb's, should be laid out, surveyed, marked, bounded and cleared,
and Michael Pue, John
Snowden and Caleb Dorsey, of Thomas Beale, were appointed commissioners
for laying out said
road; and the justices of Anne-Arundel county were authorised and directed,
at their levy court to
be held after the first day of January then following, and thereafter in
the last court of the year annually,
to levy a sum of money, not exceeding two shillings and six-pence on every
hundred pounds
worth of assessable property in the said county, to be paid to the said
commissioners quarter yearly
until the said road should be completed: And whereas the said commissioners,
in virtue of the authority
reposed in them, did, in pursuance of said act, contract with Jonathan,
Elias, George and
John Ellicot, to clear and make the said road, which road was made
by said Ellicots, and the
cost and charge thereof was submitted to, and allowed by, the county court
of Anne-Arundel:
And whereas by a mistake of the justices of said county, the assessment
was not legally made in and
for the years 1792 and 1793, and William Goldsmith, the collector for
said years, hath died insolvent,
without paying the same, and the securities of said Goldsmith have been
exonerated from all
responsibility for the same by decision of the high court of appeals:
And whereas it is just and reasonable
that those, who under faith of the laws advance money to promote national
and important
objects, should be reimbursed for their advances,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the levy court of Anne-Arundel
county, at their first meeting after the passage of this law, shall settle
and adjust the sum of money
due to Jonathan, Elias, George and John Ellicot, of Baltimore county, being
the sum of money by
them advanced and expended on the road aforesaid, and which William Goldsmith
was appointed to
collect in the years seventeen hundred and ninety-two and three, under
an assessment illegally imposed,
calculating interest on the said sums from the times the said sums were
expended and advanced
by the said Ellicots until the same shall be made payable by the collector
as hereafter directed, and
costs expended.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Anne-Arundel county shall, and they are
hereby directed, authorised and empowered, at their first meeting after
the passage of this act, to levy
in three annual payments, without interest, upon the assessable property
of said county, a sum of
money adequate to discharge the principal sum, and costs, due and payable
to the said Ellicots, to
be collected in the same manner, and at the same time, and by the same
persons, as other county
taxes are collected, and, when collected, shall be paid to the said Ellicots,
the survivors or survivor
of them.
IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
shall take bond, with adequate security, from the
collector, for the faithful discharge of his duty as required by this law,
and the collector shall be entitled
to the same fees as are allowed on the collection of the county taxes. |
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CHAP. LXXV.
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Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Commissioners
to proceed, &c. |
A Supplementary act to an act to lay out and establish a road from
the city of Annapolis to the city of Washington, and
to repeal
the act therein mentioned.
WHEREAS by a resolve of this general assembly, passed at November session,
one thousand seven
hundred and ninety-six, commissioners were authorised and empowered to
examine the
situation of the country between the city of Washington and the city
of Annapolis, and ascertain
and determine the direction and position of the nearest, most convenient
and practicable road that
could be laid off between the said two places: And whereas the said
commissioners have undertaken
and completed the same, and have returned a plot of the said road to the
general assembly: And
whereas by a law passed at November session, one thousand seven hundred
and ninety-eight, Thomas
Duckett, Levi Gantt and Jacob Duckett, of Prince-George's county, William
Harwood, Leonard
Sellman, Edward Hall and James Williams, of Anne-Arundel county, were appointed
commissioners,
and they, or any four of them, were authorised and empowered to open, clear
and grub, the said
road: And whereas the said commissioners have made and finished the
said road through the county
of Anne-Arundel, and that part of the road that passes through Prince-George's
county remains unfinished
and incomplete, to the great injury and obstruction of passengers and carriages;
therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the said commissioners, as soon as
the weather will permit, proceed to the execution of the trust reposed
in them, and complete the
said road through Prince-George's county, agreeably to the act to which
this is a supplement. |
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