| 1810.
CHAP. 30.
Passed Dec. 23. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. XXX.
An Act to open a Road in Washington County. Lib. TH. No.
2, fol.
460. |
Commissioners appointed
to survey
and lay off a public
road. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
James Prather, David Cushwa and John Fight, or a majority of
them, are hereby appointed commissioners to survey and lay off a
public road, not exceeding thirty feet in width, beginning at the
Pennsylvania line on the little cove road near to Eli William's saw
mill, and thence by and through the lands of Philip Means and
George Dunn, and thence to intersect the main road leading from
Hager's-Town to Cumberland, near to Denton Jacques's old furnace;
provided the same shall not be laid out to run over the orchard,
garden or meadow, of any person, without the consent of
the owners thereof, and when so surveyed and laid off, to return a
plot thereof to the clerk of said county, to be there filed. |
Overseer to be appointed
to open
said road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of said county be
and is hereby empowered, at the next court thereafter, to appoint
an overseer or overseers to clear and open said road, according to
said plot, and to levy such sum of money as in the discretion of
said court shall be considered reasonable, for the purpose of clearing
and opening said road as aforesaid; and the said road, when
surveyed, laid out and opened, as aforesaid, shall be deemed a public
road, and shall be kept in repair as other public roads in said
county are. |
| Allowance to commissioners. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall be
entitled to receive, as a compensation, the sum of two dollars for
every day they shall attend for the discharge of the duties required
if them by this act, and the said overseer or overseers shall receive
the same compensation which the overseers of public roads respectively
receive, which compensation shall be respectively levied,
collected and paid, in the same manner that other county charges
are. |
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Passed Dec. 23.
* Nov. 1809, ch. 77. |
CHAP. XXXI.
A Supplement to an Act*, entitled, An act to lay out and make public
a Road therein mentioned in Cecil County, passed the
sixth day of
January, eighteen hundred and nine. Lib. TH.
No. 2, fol. 461. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it hath been represented to this general
assembly, that
the commissioners named in the original law to which this is a supplement,
did not proceed to lay out the road by said law contemplated
to be opened agreeably to the provisions of said act; therefore, |
Commissioners to
be appointed by
levy court to open
road. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Cecil county be and they are hereby authorised to
nominate and appoint three persons as commissioners, who shall be
authorised to lay out and open said road agreeably to the provisions
of said original act. |
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Passed Dec. 23.
† 1806, ch. 54. |
CHAP. XXXII.
A Supplement to an Act †, entitled, An act to lay out and
open a certain
Road in Cecil County, passed the third day of January,
eighteen
hundred and seven. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 462. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it hath been represented to this general
assembly, that
the time has expired within which the levy court of Cecil county
were by law empowered to carry said act into operation; |
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