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BENJAMIN OGLE, Esquire, Governor.
November.
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1800. |
servants, to enter at any and at all times hereafter upon the said
premises, for the purpose of erecting
necessary and convenient works and machines, cutting and opening trenches,
laying and fixing
or of repairing pipes, and covering the same, and finally, of doing all
such matters and things as
may be requisite for carrying this law into full and complete operation.
IX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the several sheriffs who shall summon any
person to attend as a juryman in virtue of this act, to return a list or
pannel of such person so summoned
by him, to the sheriff of Baltimore county, before the day on which they
are to be impannelled,
and every such person who shall attend as a juryman aforesaid shall be
allowed and paid by
the mayor and city council of Baltimore the sum of four dollars per
diem for their attendance, and
also the amount of two days attendance for itinerant charges; and if
any such juryman shall neglect
or refuse to attend according to the said summons, the sheriff of Baltimore
county shall return a list
of all such persons to the next county court of their respective counties,
who are hereby authorised
to inquire into the circumstances and fine such delinquent, in their discretion,
not exceeding the
sum of fifty dollars current money; and the said respective sheriffs shall
be allowed the same fees as
they are entitled by law to receive in all other cases for summoning and
impannelling juries, to be
paid by the said mayor and city council of Baltimore.
X. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons shall obstruct the said mayor and city
council, or their successors, their agents, workmen or servants, in
conveying the said water into the
said city, or shall change, alter, remove, injure or destroy, any work
or part of a work made by the
said mayor and city council of Baltimore, or caused to be made by them,
for the purpose of introducing
water into the said city, under the authority of this act, or if any person
shall alter, obstruct,
change or pollute, by any tan-yard, hogsty, slaughter-house, dye-pot, or
other ways, the fountains,
springs, waters or streams, which the said mayor and city council shall
hereafter introduce, or shall
be preparing to introduce, into the said city of Baltimore, under the authority
given them, and
regulations prescribed to them by this act, such person or persons
may be indicted in the Baltimore
county court, and being thereof convicted shall be fined, at the discretion
of the court, according to
the nature of the offence, or imprisoned for any time not exceeding one
month, such fine to be paid
and applied to the use of the city of Baltimore.
XI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor and city
council be authorised to arbitrate, in such
manner as they may think proper, the damages to be paid by them to any
person or persons by reason
of the taking and introducing water into the city of Baltimore, and that
in such case the award of
the arbitrators shall be deemed as good and valid, and to all intents and
purposes as available, as the
inquisition of a jury as above directed, and recorded in the same manner.
XII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That after the first
day of January, eighteen hundred and three, all
the provisions of this act for compelling the condemnation of the land,
or other thing, of any individual,
contrary to the will and consent of such individual, shall cease. |
CHAP.
LXXVII.
Sheriffs to return
a list, &c.
Penalty on persons
obstructing,
&c.
Mayor, &c. to
arbitrate, &c.
Provisions to
cease, &c. |
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CHAP. LXXVIII.
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An ACT to enable the trustees appointed by the last will and testament
of doctor John Purnell, of Worcester county, to sell
and
convey the lands therein directed to be sold.
WHEREAS George Purnell, Elisha Purnell, Littleton Purnell, Henrietta
Purnell, and George
Purnell, physician, have, by their petition to this general assembly, represented,
that a certain
John Purnell, conceiving himself entitled in fee to part of sundry tracts
of land, to with, Spaldon,
Father's Care, Number One, and Fraternity, did, by his last will, bearing
date the thirtieth
day of November, Anno Domini seventeen hundred and ninety-nine,
devise the said lands to the said
George, Littleton and Elisha, as trustees, to sell and dispose of the same
lands in fee, and to vest
the purchase money for the benefit of his family: And whereas
doubts were entertained, whether
the title of the same lands was at that time in the said John, the devisor,
or the said Elisha Purnell,
one of your petitioners, and the said Elisha, willing to confirm the title
of the said John in the premises,
did, by his deed duly executed, and bearing date the second day of December,
Anno Domini
seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, convey all his right and title of,
in and to the said lands to the
said John, as by recurring to the said will and deed will more fully appear,
and the said John dying
in some short time after, it is rendered doubtful whether the said trustees
can convey a good and
effectual title in the premises, by reason of the deed of the said Elisha
to the said John and vest the |
Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble. |
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