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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
and Hanover turnpike road, at or near Hamstead, and the
said road, when so laid out, and a plot of the same made out and
returned to the clerk of Baltimore county court, to be recorded
among the records of said county, shall for ever thereafter be deemed
a public highway, and kept in repair as other public roads in said
county. |
1810.
CHAP. 122. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall ascertain and value what damages may be
sustained by any person or persons through whose land the said
road shall pass, taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages,
if any, and the same, when so assessed, shall be paid,
or secured to be paid, by the person or persons who may apply to
have the said road laid out, straightened and amended, as aforesaid,
to the person or persons entitled to receive the same, before he or
they shall proceed to open the said road. |
Damages to be ascertained. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons through
whose lands the said road shall pass, or his, her or their guardian
or trustee, shall conceive himself, herself or themselves, aggrieved
by such valuation and assessment of damages by the said commissioners
respectively, it shall and may be lawful for any justice
of the peace, on his, her or their application, to issue his warrant,
under his hand and seal, directed to any constable of the
county, commanding him to summon twelve disinterested men,
qualified by law to serve as jurors in the county court, to meet upon
the premises on a certain day, of which six days notice at least
shall be given to the party or parties interested; and the said jurors
when so met, and having each first taken an oath before some
justice of the peace, that he will, without favour, affection, prejudice
or partiality, assess the damages sustained by the person or
persons at whose request such inquisition shall be taken, by reason
of opening the aforesaid road through his, her or their land, shall
thereupon proceed to assess and value the damages accordingly,
taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages, if any,
and such inquisition and valuation shall be final and conclusive between
the parties respectively; Provided, that the said road shall
not pass through any house, yard, garden, meadow or orchard,
without the consent of the owner or owners thereof. |
Persons conceiving
themselves aggrieved
by such
ascertainment
may have jury
summoned.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. CXXIII.
An Act for the relief of Dennis M. Burgess, John M. Burgess and
George W. Willett, of Prince-George's County.
Lib. TH. No. 2,
fol. 605. |
Passed Dec. 25. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the judges of Prince-George's county court, be and they are hereby
authorised and directed, to extend to Dennis M. Burgess, John
M. Burgess and George W. Willett, of Prince-George's county,
and to each of them, the benefit and relief of the act of assembly
passed at November session, eighteen hundred and five*, entitled,
An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, and the supplementary
acts thereto, in the same manner as if the said Dennis M.
Burgess, John M. Burgess and George W. Willett, had procured
a release, in writing, from two thirds of their creditors in amount,
as required by the said act, and the several supplementary acts
thereto. |
Benefit of insolvent
laws extended
to him.
* Ch. 110. |
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