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CHAP. 43. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and empowered, at their discretion, to dispose of any part of the
public square in Charles-town, commonly called Port Tobacco, in
Charles county, upon such terms and conditions as to them may
seem meet. |
Justices of levy
court authorised
execute a deed to
therefor. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any four of the
justices of the said
levy court, upon the sale of any portion of the said public square,
are hereby directed, upon the payment of the purchase money, to
execute and acknowledge, in the usual form, a deed or deeds to
the purchaser or purchasers for the same, and that the deed or
deeds so executed, shall operate to convey the interest of the said
county in and to the said land so sold, to the purchaser, according
to the true intent and meaning of the said deed or deeds. |
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Passed Dec. 23. |
CHAP. XLIV.
An Act for the relief of John Norris, of Harford County. Lib.
TH.
No. 2, fol. 472. |
Preamble.
* Ch. 21. |
WHEREAS John Norris hath, by his petition to this
general assembly,
represented, that a certain road in Harford county authorised
to be opened by an act of the general assembly, passed at
November session, eighteen hundred and five*, was laid out through
a well timbered piece of land a very considerable distance, and has
therefore rendered it necessary for him to erect a long chain of
fence at considerable expense, and that he is materially injured
thereby, and no power having been given by the said act to value
and assess the damages sustained by landholders through whose
property said road might pass, and hath prayed relief in the premises;
and the same appearing reasonable, therefore, |
Damages sustained
by a road running
through his land,
to be ascertained. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the commissioners in the said act named, or a majority of them, be
and they are hereby authorised and empowered to value the damages
sustained by the said John Norris by reason of the said road
running through his land, taking into consideration all advantages
and disadvantages arising therefrom, and make report thereof, in
writing, to the next levy court which shall happen thereafter, and
the amount of said valuation, when so made and returned, shall be
thereupon levied by said court on the assessable property of Harford
county, and shall be collected and paid to the said John Norris,
or order, as other county charges are levied, collected and
paid. |
Commissioners to
take an oath. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before the commissioners
shall
proceed to ascertain such damages, they shall take the following
oath, or affirmation, as the case may be, before some person competent
to administer the same, viz: " I, A. B. do swear, or affirm,
" (as the case may be,) that I will faithfully, without favour or partiality,
" ascertain the damages, if any, sustained by John Norris,
" by reason of a road passing through his land, in pursuance of a
" law passed at November session, eighteen hundred and five, chapter
" twenty-one." |
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Passed Dec. 23. |
CHAP. XLV.
An Act annulling the marriage of Abraham Parks, and Eleanor his
Wife, of Baltimore County. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 473. |
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