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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CXVIII.
A Supplement to an Act*, entitled, An act to lay out, straighten
and
amend, a certain Road in Harford County.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol.
600. |
1810.
CHAP. 118.
Passed Dec. 25.
* Nov. 1809, ch. 70. |
WHEREAS it is represented, by the petition of sundry
inhabitants
of Harford county, that they have sustained much injury by reason
of a road laid out through their land under the original law to
which this is a supplement, for which adequate compensation hath
not be adjudged to them by the commissioners therein mentioned,
and praying that other commissioners may be appointed to estimate
such damages, and further that the said commissioners may be authorised
to review the said road from where Isaac Davis did live to
the upper cross roads; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John Moores, Thomas Hope and Thomas Ayres, or a majority of
them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to review
the road leading from the Maryland line, near the Quaker's meeting-house,
called the Fawn Meeting-House, in Pennsylvania, thence
by Slade's mill to the Baltimore road, at or near Isaac Davis's,
and estimate the damages sustained by individuals in consequence
of said road passing through their lands, and return the same to
the levy court of Harford county, and before the said commissioners
shall proceed to act under this law they, and each of them, shall
take the following oath, or affirmation: " I _____, do swear, or
affirm,
" that I will faithfully and impartially, according to the best
" of my judgment, estimate the damages sustained by reason of a
" road laid out under an act to lay out, straighten and amend, a
" certain road in Harford county, passing through their lands." |
Commissioners appointed
to review
a road, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said commissioners,
or a
majority of them, shall not return a greater amount of damages
than made by the former commissioners, in that case the persons
applying for a revaluation shall pay all the expenses of the same,
but in case they return a greater amount then the levy court shall
levy, and cause the same to be collected and paid over, as other
county charges are levied, collected and paid. |
Damages, relating
to them. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforesaid commissioners,
or
a majority of them, are hereby empowered to review the said road,
as continued, from the place where the said Isaac Davis did live
to the cross roads, to alter, straighten and amend the same, in
such places as they in their judgment may deem necessary, consistent
with the least possible injury to private property, and having
taken the oaths heretofore prescribed, estimate the damages sustained
by individuals, and the same return, with a plot thereof, to
the levy court of Harford county, to be levied, collected and paid, as
other county charges. |
To review road as
continued, &c. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
shall receive
two dollars for every day they shall attend in the discharge of the
duties required of them by this act. |
Allowance to commissioners. |
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CHAP. CXIX.
An Act to authorise the Levy Court of Saint-Mary's County to assess
and levy a sum of Money for the benefit of John Truman
Graves.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 602. |
Passed Dec. 25. |
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