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LAWS of MARYLAND.
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CHAP.
XXXIV. |
such father, or either of his securities, his or their, or either of
their heirs,
executors or administrators, for the use or maintenance of such child,
more than
credit given, to issue an order, requiring such father, his security
or securities,
his or their heirs, executors or administrators, to pay to the mother,
or other
person who shall have the custody of the said child, such a sum of
money as
may appear adequate for the maintenance of such child, not exceeding
thirty
dollars per annum, until the said child shall arrive to the
age of seven years; and
upon proof of the service of such order upon the person or persons
to whom the
same might have been directed, and demand of payment thereof, and that
the
money thereon due is unpaid, the clerk of the county court in which
the recognizance
of such father may be filed, is hereby authorised and empowered forthwith
to issue a scire facias on such recognizance, for the use of
such mother, or
other person entitled as aforesaid, and thereupon such proceedings
shall be had
as shall bring the matter in dispute fairly to trial at the next term
thereafter
without any importance or delay. |
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CHAP. XXXV.
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Passed December
30. |
An ACT respecting two tracts of land lying in Allegany county,
the one called Grassy Cabbin, the other called the
Desert. |
Preamble.
Right released,
&c. |
WHEREAS the equitable estate in fee-simple in the aforesaid two tracts
of land is vested in John Ridout, of the city of Annapolis, his heirs
and assigns, and information hath been given to the agent of this
state that the same were liable to confiscation, because the legal
title thereto is
vested in the heirs of a certain Thomas Bassett: And whereas
Josias Wilson
King, the informant, hath agreed to and is willing and desirous that
the same
should be vested in fee in John Ridout, his heirs and assigns, exonerated
and
discharge of any claim of the state of Maryland thereto,
II. Be it enacted,by
the General Assembly of Maryland, That the state of
Maryland doth hereby release to the said John Ridout, his heirs and
assigns, all
right, title, interest and claim, (if any,) that the said state hath
or may have in
and to both and either of two tracts of land, the one called Grassy
Cabbin, the
other called the Desert, heretofore granted to Thomas Bassett, lying
then in Frederick,
but now in Allegany county. |
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CHAP. XXXVI.
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Passed December
30. |
An ACT to lay out a road from Deep Point, in Cornwallis's
Neck, in Charles county, until it shall intersect
the public
road at the New House on the head of Mattawoman
creek, in
said county. |
Preamble.
Commissioners
appointed,
&c. |
WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Charles county, by their petition to
this general assembly have set forth, that they sustain great inconvenience
for the want of a public road leading from Deep Point, in
Cornwallis's Neck, until it shall intersect the public road at a place
known by
the name of the New House, on the head of Mattawoman creek, in said
county,
and have prayed that a road may be laid out in said direction; and
the prayer
thereof appearing reasonable; therefore,
II. Be it enacted,by
the General Assembly of Maryland, That Thomas M.
Dent, James Fenwick, Robert D. Simms, Walter Jameson and Edward J.
Pye,
or any three of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners,
to survey,
lay out and open, at the expence of the petitioners, a road, not exceeding
thirty
feet in width clear of ditches, from Deep Point, in Cornwallis's Neck,
in
Charles county, until it shall intersect the public road at a place
known by the
name of the New House, on the head of Mattawoman creek, in said county,
in
the discretion which will best suit the situation of the ground; and
a plot of the
said road, when so surveyed and laid out, shall be returned to Charles
county
court, to be recorded, and shall for ever thereafter be deemed and
taken to be a
public highway, and repaired and improved in the same manner as other
public
roads in the said county. |
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