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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
aforesaid, is hereby empowered, at the next court thereafter,
to appoint an overseer or overseers to clear and open said
road, and to levy such sum of money as shall be considered reasonable
for the purpose of clearing and opening said road; and the said
road, when opened and cleared, shall be deemed a public road, and
shall be kept in repair in the same manner as other public roads in
said county are. |
1811.
CHAP. 12. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
should be entitled
to receive as a compensation, the sum of two dollars for every day
they shall attend for the discharge of the duties required of them by
this act; and the said overseer or overseers shall receive the same
compensation, which the overseers of public roads respectively receive,
which compensation shall be levied, collected and paid, in
the same manner that other county charges are levied, collected and
paid. |
Commissioners &
overseer's compensation. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
when
they lay out said road, shall assess the damages sustained by the
individuals over whose lands the said road may be laid out, and to
return such assessment to the levy court, to be levied, collected and
paid, as other county charges are levied, collected and paid. |
Damages to be ascertained. |
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CHAP. XIII.
An Act to authorise and empower the Justices of the Levy Court of
Caroline County to discontinue so much of the public
Road as is
therein mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 35. |
Passed Dec. 27. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of William Parrott, Deborah Barrock, Nancy Bartlett and
others, that so much of the public road, leading from the old road
that leads from Greensborough to Hillsborough, through the farms
of the aforesaid William Parrott, Deborah Barrock and Nancy
Bartlett, until it intersects the main road leading from Boonsborough
to Denton, at Thomas Hardcastle's gate, is of no possible
public utility, and greatly injurious to the interest of the said petitioners;
therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court of Caroline county, be and they are
hereby authorised and directed, if they shall see proper, at their
first session in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, upon the application
of the said William Parrott, and others, through whose
lands the aforesaid road now runs, to discontinue and stop the same
from the said William Parrott's to Thomas Hardcastle's gate, any
law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Road may be discontinued. |
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CHAP. XIV.
An Act authorising Mary Keene to remove her Negroes from the State
of Virginia into this State. Lib. TH. No.
3, fol. 36. A Private
Act. |
Passed Dec. 27. |
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CHAP. XV.
An Act for the benefit of William Pollitt, junior, of Somerset County,
an Insolvent Debtor. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 37.
See ch. 108. |
Passed Dec. 27 |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly
by the petition
of the said William Pollitt, that he is confined in the gaol of
Somerset county, and is precluded the benefit of the insolvent law, |
Preamble. |
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