| 1810.
CHAP. 103. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
of certain water lots, permission to extend and wharf out
the same; therefore, |
Proprietors of lots
may wharf out and
improve them. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, b y he General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Christopher Hughes, and other person or persons who now are,
or hereafter may be, the proprietors of lots binding on, and entitled
to the privileges of, the water on the south side of the Basin in the
city of Baltimore, between Forest-street and Johnson-street, shall
be and are hereby permitted to wharf out, extend and improve, the
whole front of their several lots respectively, and for such distance
as from time to time they may think fit, until they intersect a line
extended eastwardly in a right line with and from the north side of
Lee-street, provided that the whole front of each lot be extended,
and no dock or vacant space left on part thereof, and the proprietors
of said wharfs shall be entitled solely and exclusively to the
emoluments arising from the wharfage thereof, and shall be subject
to the rules and regulations prescribed by the mayor and city council
of Baltimore respecting the wharfage thereof.
See December 1813, ch. 71. |
Certain streets
continued and extended,
&c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That William-street
and Johnson-street
shall be continued and extended their present width to the intersection
of the said line extended eastward in a right line with and
from the north side of Lee-street, or so far as the proprietors of the
lots bordering on the said streets shall extend their said lots, and
that the city of Baltimore be and they are hereby at liberty to
make a good and sufficient wharf at the end of each of said streets,
and ti fill up the said streets, so extended, on or before the first day
of January, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and if the said city,
within the said period, shall not wharf and fill in the same, then
the proprietors of the adjoining property, or any of them, may
proceed to wharf and fill up the same as far as their lots shall have
been wharfed or extended, and shall be allowed a reasonable compensation
therefor, by a relinquishment of taxes, by having the
mud taken from the Basin deposited under the direction of such
person as may undertake to wharf and fill up said streets, at the
usual and customary rates, or in such other manner, as the mayor
and city council of Baltimore shall deem most advisable for said
city, and the said streets, when made as aforesaid, shall be respectively
deemed and considered for ever thereafter as public highways,
and the mayor and city council, for the use of said city, shall
be entitled solely and exclusively to the emoluments arising from
the wharfage at the end of said streets. |
Freeholders to be
summoned to assess
damages sustained,
&c. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sheriff of
Baltimore county,
after having given at least ten days notice in one of the newspapers
of the city of Baltimore, shall at any time before the first day of
April next, summon twelve freeholders, inhabitants of the said city,
not interested in the premises, who being first sworn to assess and
value what damages shall be sustained by any person or persons
whosoever, or the corporation of the city of Baltimore, by reason
of extending and wharfing out said lots, (taking all benefits and
inconveniencies into consideration,) shall proceed to assess and
value what damages may be sustained by the corporation of the
city of Baltimore, or any person or persons whomsoever, by extending
and wharfing out said lots, and shall also declare what
sum of money each individual benefitted thereby shall respectively |
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