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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
contribute and pay towards compensating the corporation of the
city of Baltimore, or any person or persons injured by extending
and wharfing out the said lots; an the names of the person or
persons, and the sums of money which they shall respectively be
obliged to pay, shall be returned, under their hands and seals, to
the register of the said city, to be filed and kept in his office, and
the person or persons benefitted by extending and wharfing out
said lots, and assessed as aforesaid, shall respectively pay the sum
or sums of money so charged and assessed to them, with interest
thereon, at the rate of six per centum for the time limited for
the
payment thereof.
See 1815, ch. 206. |
1810.
CHAP. 103. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums of money
assessed and
charged to each individual benefitted by extending and wharfing
out said lots, shall be a lien upon and bind all the property so benefitted
thereby to the full amount thereof. |
Sums assessed to
be a lien on property
benefitted. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the corporation
of the city
of Baltimore, or the person or persons injured by extending and
wharfing out the said lots, shall not be paid the damages by him or
them respectively sustained and assessed as aforesaid, he, she or
they, shall and may institute suits in Baltimore county court for
the recovery of the same, in which it shall be sufficient to declare
for money had and received, and this act and the proceedings under
the same, shall be evidence to all intents and purposes whatsoever
to support such action or actions instituted as aforesaid. |
In case damages
are not paid suit
may be instituted
for recovery thereof. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case any suit
shall be instituted
as aforesaid for the recovery of any sum or sums of money in
virtue of this act, if the corporation of the city of Baltimore, or
the person or persons instituting the same, shall file a short note
expressing the ground of such action, at least twenty days next
before the sitting of the court, and cause a copy thereof to be served
on the defendant, or left at his last place of abode, the parties
shall proceed to trial at the first court to which the writ shall be returnable,
and no imparlance or appeal shall be allowed. |
Parties may proceed
to trial at
first court to which
writ is returnable. |
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CHAP. CIV.
An Act to lay out and straighten a Road in Baltimore County.
Lib.
TH. No. 2, fol. 574. |
Passed Dec. 24. |
WHEREAS it is represented by the petition of sundry
inhabitants
of Baltimore county, that it would be of public utility to have a
road laid out from the old York road, near Thomas Sutton's, to
Bull's mill, and thence to intersect the Baltimore and York-town
turnpike near John Wiese's tavern; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Thomas Meredith, Richard Tipton and John M. Gaw, be and they
are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority of
them, are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority
of them, are hereby authorised and empowered to survey, lay
out and straighten, at the expense of such persons as may think
proper to contribute thereto, a road not exceeding thirty feet in
width, beginning at the old York road, near Thomas Sutton's,
thence to Bull's mill, and from thence until it intersects the Baltimore
and York-town turnpike road near John Wiese's tavern; and
the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall make out a |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
and straighten a
road. |
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