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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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, taking into consideration the
advantages and disadvantages, if any, and such inquisition and
valuation shall be final and conclusive. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 178. |
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CHAP. CLXXIX.
An Act relating to the Act, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry
Insolvent
Debtors, passed November Session, eighteen hundred and
five*, and to the several Supplements thereto.
Lib. TH. No. 2,
fol. 396. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1810.
* Ch. 110. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it
shall and may be lawful for the county courts of the respective counties,
or the several judges thereof during the recess of the said
court, to extend to all such persons as may apply to such court for
the same, all the benefits and privileges intended to be given to the
persons included in the said act, on their complying with the provisions
of the said original act and of the several supplements
thereto. |
Benefit of an act
extended. |
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CHAP. CLXXX.
A Supplement to the Act †, entitled, An act to lay out and
open a Road
from the lower end of William Darnes's Lane, to intersect
the public
Road leading from John Orme's Plantation to Montgomery
Court
House at or near the Union Mills. Lib. TH.
No. 2, fol. 396. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1810.
† Ch. 20. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the
road contemplated to be laid out by the act to which this is a supplement,
shall be of the width of thirty feet. |
Width of road. |
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CHAP. CLXXXI.
An Act relative to the Judges of the Court of Appeals, and of the
County
Courts. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 396. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1810. |
WHEREAS the speedy administration of justice is
highly conducive
to the prosperity, and is essentially promotive to the best interests
of the good people of this state, and for the attainment of
this most desirable object it is requisite that all judges should be
punctual and regular in the discharge of their important official duties;
to the end therefore that this general assembly may be enabled
to form a correct opinion of the conduct of the judges in this
respect, and to meet the responsibility which attaches to them as
the grand inquest of this state, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the clerk of the court of appeals for the western and eastern shore
respectively, and the clerks of the several county courts, be and they
are hereby required and directed to report, annually, to the general
assembly, on or before the first Monday in December, the duration
of every term or session of their several courts, and the number
of days that the judge or judges of such court shall respectively
attend for the performance of his or their official duties. |
Clerks to report
annually to the legislature
the duration
of every
term, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the clerk of
any of the courts
herein mentioned shall fail to comply with the direction of this act
in making his annual report as aforesaid to the general assembly,
he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recoverable
and applied as other fines and forfeitures are. |
Penalty for neglect. |
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