| 1810.
CHAP. 139. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
to appoint three commissioners to straighten open and
amend, the road from Hager's-town towards Hancock-town, if in
their opinion the same be necessary and conducive to the public
convenience of the inhabitants thereof; which commissioners, when
so appointed, shall be empowered to straighten, open and amend,
the aforesaid road from Elizabeth-town aforesaid, in the most suitable
direction towards Hancock-town, until the same shall intersect
Conococheague creek, at some point thereon where in their opinion
a bridge may be erected secure from freshes and high waters, and
from this point on the Conococheague, still in the most suitable direction
to Hancock-town, to some point on Licking creek, where
in their opinion a bridge may be erected secure from freshes and
high waters, and from this place last mentioned to Hancock-town,
having due regard, as far as is practicable, in the whole course of
the said road, to shorten the distance, and to the practicability of
making the said road at some future period into a turnpike road. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the commissioners
appointed
as aforesaid shall die or refuse to act, that the levy court of
Washington county shall and may appoint another person or persons
in his or their stead. |
Road to be laid
out not exceeding
sixty feet in width. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
appointed as
aforesaid, or any of them, shall proceed forthwith to lay out, survey,
mark and bound, the aforesaid road, not exceeding sixty feet
in width, in the manner herein before directed, and shall execute,
sign and seal, a plain plot of the same, with explicit explanations
thereof, and such plots and explanation shall return to the justices
of the levy court, who shall cause the same to be recorded among
the land records of the said county in testimony of the same being
established by law. |
Commissioners
may contract for
damages. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or any
two of them, shall have full power to bargain and contract with
any person or persons over whose lands the said road may pass, or
adjudge the damages any person may sustain by said road, and
make return of all contracts by them made for land or damages adjudged
by them by reason of opening, straightening and amending,
said road, to the levy court of said county. |
| Levy authorised. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court for
Washington county, at their next sitting after the first day of
March next, and thereafter in the last court in the year annually,
shall levy a sum of money, not exceeding the sum of twenty-five
cents current money on every hundred pounds worth of assessable
property in the said county, to be collected in the same manner, at
the same times, and by the same persons, as other county taxes are
collected, and shall be paid quarterly into the hands of a supervisor
or supervisors to be appointed as in manner shall be hereafter directed. |
Supervisors to be
appointed. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court for
the county of Washington shall and they are hereby required to appoint,
at the time and in the manner that they appoint other supervisors
for the public roads in their said county, a supervisor or
supervisors for the road by this act established, within such divisions
and districts as they shall think proper, and such supervisors,
so appointed, shall give bond in like manner as is required by law
of other supervisors of public roads, and in all respects to be governed |
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