| 1810.
CHAP. 134.
Not more than
eleven directors
elected the preceding
year, to be
eligible at subsequent
elections. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That at all future elections
of directors
of the Mechanics Bank of Baltimore, eleven and not more of
the directors elected the preceding year by the stockholders shall
be eligible, which shall be the eleven persons having the greatest
number of votes at such election, and qualified in other respects as
the original act and this supplement require, any thing in the said
original act to the contrary notwithstanding. |
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Passed Dec. 25. |
CHAP. CXXXV.
An Act to lay out and make public a Road in Baltimore County.
Lib.
TH. No. 2, fol. 614. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
& open a road. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Benjamin Jones, Richard Benson, Thomas Wooden, John Maclellen
and John Ridgely, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners,
and they, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised
and empowered to lay out and open, at the expense of the petitioners,
a road not exceeding thirty feet in width, from the new cotton
factory now erecting on Gwinn's Falls to the new Liberty road, on
the straightest and best direction the nature of the ground will admit
of, and with as little inconvenience to the land-holders as possible,
and the said road, when so laid out, and the valuation herein
after directed to be made shall have taken place, and a plot thereof
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 are in said county. |
| Damages to be ascertained. |
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. |
Persons conceiving
themselves aggrieved
by such ascertainment
may
have jury summoned. |
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,
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 |
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