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CHAP. 56.
May alter location
of road. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the said
commissioners
shall lay out the road to Nathan Pyle's mill, that then and in that
case they shall view the road from the said mill to the Peach Bottom
road, and if they should be of opinion that it can be laid out
on better ground than where it now runs, they shall make such alterations
of the location of the same, as they, or a majority of
them, shall conceive necessary, and make return thereof to the
clerk of the county with their other proceedings. |
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Passed Dec. 23. |
CHAP. LVII.
An Act to appoint THomas Woodfield, of Anne-Arundel County, Trustee
for the sale of the Real Estate of Joshua Hall, late
of said County,
deceased. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 492.
A Private Act. |
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Passed Dec. 23. |
CHAP. LVIII.
An Act for the benefit of the Children of Littleton Robins, junior,
deceased,
of Worcester County. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol.
495. A Private
Act. |
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Passed Dec. 23. |
CHAP. LIX.
An Act for the relief of Clotworthy Birnie. Lib. TH. No.
2, fol.
497. A Private Act. |
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Passed Dec. 23. |
CHAP. LX.
An Act to open and make public an Alley in the Town of Snow Hill,
in Worcester County. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 497. |
Commissioners appointed
to open
alley.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
George Hayward, Zadock Sturgiss, Samuel Porter, Benjamin Purnell
and Selby Parker, shall be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners to open and make public an alley, sixteen feet wide,
in Snow-Hill-town, leading from Strawbury-alley across lot number
ten and the lot called The Old Chesnut Lot, until it intersects
Scarborough-alley; and the said commissioners, or a majority of
them, are hereby authorised and empowered, as soon as it may be
conveniently in their power, to open the said alley of the width aforesaid,
and through the lots aforesaid, in that way which will be least
injurious to the persons through whose property the same may be
opened; Provided always, that the same alley shall not be opened
through any person's yard or garden without his or her consent. |
| To ascertain damages. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or
a majority of them, shall ascertain the damages which any individual
may sustain by reason of the said alley being laid out and
opened through his or her property, which shall be paid, or secured
to be paid, before the said alley shall be opened. |
Damages to be
paid by persons interested. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the damages which
may be ascertained
as aforesaid to be sustained by reason as aforesaid, shall
be paid, or secured to be paid, by the persons conceiving themselves
interested in opening the said alley, unless the levy court of
Worcester county shall be of opinion that the opening thereof is of
that public benefit as to justify levying the same upon the county,
in which case the damages ascertained to be sustained by the individuals
through whose lots the said alley may be opened, shall be
levied upon the assessable property of said county, for the benefit
of the owners of the said lots respectively. |
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