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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CXC.
An Act for the relief of John Hunter, late Collector for Baltimore
County. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 403. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 190.
Passed Jan. 7, 1810. |
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CHAP. CXCI.
An Act to open a Road down Patapsco Falls in Baltimore County.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 403. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1810. |
WHEREAS application has been made to this general
assembly,
by sundry inhabitants of Baltimore and Anne-Arundel counties,
representing that they suffer an inconvenience for want of a road
down Patapsco Falls, from the Baltimore and Frederick-town
turnpike road, near Conrad, Lucas & Co's paper mill, to Elk-Ridge
Landing, to leave the turnpike road at or near the paper
mill aforesaid, and to intersect the road leading from Baltimore to
the City of Washington at or near Norwood's ferry, the distance
being about five miles, and have prayed that a law may pass appointing
commissioners to lay out and open a road, of the width of
two perches, at the expense of those who may be willing to contribute
thereto; and this general assembly apprehending the prayer
of the said petitioners reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Richard Caton, Allen Dorsey and John Ellicott, or any two of
them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to survey,
lay out and open, a road, at the expense and proper cost of those
that may be willing to contribute to the same, of the width of two
perches, from the said turnpike road near Conrad, Lucas & Co's.
paper mill, down the main Falls of Patapsco, keeping as near the
water as the nature of the ground will admit, but so as not to injure
any mill-seat on said Falls, to intersect the road leading from
Baltimore to the City of Washington at or near Norwood's ferry;
and the said road, when so surveyed, laid out and opened, and the
valuation herein after directed to be made shall have taken place,
shall be recorded in Baltimore county court, and shall be deemed
and taken to be a public road for ever thereafter, and kept in repair
by the persons willing to contribute thereto. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
and open road. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall ascertain and value what damages may be
sustained by any person or persons through whose land the said
road shall pass, and the same, when so assessed, shall be paid, or
secured to be paid, by the contributors, before the said commissioners
shall proceed to open the said road; Provided always, that if
any person or persons through whose land the said road shall pass,
or his, or her or their guardian or trustee, shall conceive themselves
aggrieved by such valuation and assessment of damages by
the said commissioners, it shall and may lawful for the person
or persons injured to apply to a justice of the peace, who shall issue
his warrant to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to
summon twelve freeholders of the county, not interested in the premises,
and qualified to serve as jurors in the county courts, to appear
on a day specified in said warrant, on the premises, and the
sheriff is hereby authorised to administer an oath to every person
so summoned, that he will, without favour, affection, prejudice or
partiality, assess the damages sustained by the persons at whose instance
such inquisition shall be taken, by reason of opening the |
To ascertain damages.
Proviso.
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