V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or any three of them, shall cause the said
plot, when made out, together with the depositions by them taken, to be
entered on the records of
Somerset county court, and the same shall be thereafter considered, deemed
and taken to be, the
true plot of Princess-Anne-town aforesaid.
VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the commissioners
shall die, refuse, neglect, or be rendered
incapable to act, that the remaining commissioners may appoint some other
in the place of the
person or persons who shall die, refuse, neglect, or be incapable to act.
VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall be allowed the sum of three dollars
per day for each and every day they shall attend as commissioners aforesaid,
and that the surveyor
shall be allowed the sum of three dollars per day for each and every day
he shall be employed by the
commissioners aforesaid for the purpose aforesaid.
VIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the several proprietors
of the lots in the said town shall, at
their joint expence, pay to the commissioners, surveyor and witnesses aforesaid,
the several sums
allowed to them by this act, to be levied on their property, and all other
expences in equal proportions
to the value of the property held by them severally, to be adjudged by
the said commissioners.
IX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before any commissioner
or surveyor shall proceed to the execution
of the duties required of them by this act, he shall take an oath, or affirmation,
as the case may
be, before some justice of the peace, or some one of the commissioners,
that he will well and truly
discharge the duties enjoined upon him by this act, according to the best
of his judgment, without
favour, affection or partiality.
X. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the inhabitants
of the said town of Princess-Anne, or a majority
of them, shall have full power and authority, at any time between the first
day of January, eighteen
hundred and one, and the first day of May of the same year, to appoint
a patroller for the said town
and precincts, and to direct him in the execution of his duty, and to levy
on the inhabitants of said
town annually, a sum of money, not exceeding forty dollars, to be paid
to said patroller as a compensation
for his services.
XI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said patroller
shall have full power to summon any number
of the inhabitants of the said town or precincts to assist him in the execution
of the duties of his said
office, so often as he may think it necessary, whose duty it shall be to
attend the said patroller, under
the penalty of five dollars for every neglect or refusal, to be recovered
before any justice of the
peace as other small debts are recoverable. |
CHAP.
XII.
Plot to be entered
on record,
&c.
How vacancies
are to be filled.
Allowance to
commissioners,
&c.
To be paid by
proprietors, &c.
Commissioners,
&c. to take an
oath, &c.
A patroller to
be appointed,
&c.
Who may summon
persons,
&c. |
An ACT, entitled, A further supplement to an act, entitled, An
act for building a new gaol in Baltimore county.
WHEREAS by the original act to which this is a supplement it is provided,
that when said gaol
is completed, it shall, by the commissioners appointed for that purpose,
be put into the custody
and possession of the sheriff of Baltimore county: And whereas by
said original act no provision
is made for the removal of the prisoners from the old to the new gaol;
therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the sheriff of Baltimore county
shall have power and authority, as soon as he shall have received possession
of the new gaol in said
county, to remove the prisoners from the old gaol to the new gaol aforesaid,
any law to the contrary
notwithstanding. |
Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Preamble.
Sheriff to remove
prisoners,
&c. |
