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CHAP. 34. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
empowered, at their levy court annually, so long as they shall see
cause, to assess and levy on the assessable property of said county,
a sum of money not exceeding forty dollars, for the support and
maintenance of the said Willmore and his wife, and that the same
be collected annually, by the collector of Anne-Arundel county,
and by him paid to the said Willmore and his wife, or their order. |
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Passed Dec. 27. |
CHAP. XXXV.
An Act to authorise the Levy Court of Washington County to appoint
Commissioners to lay off a Road therein mentioned.
Lib. TH. No.
3, fol. 55. |
Levy court to appoint
commissioners
to lay off road,
&c. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Washington county be, and they are hereby authorised
and directed to appoint three commissioners, whose duty
it shall be to view and lay off a road not exceeding thirty feet in
width, to begin at a point on the main road leading from Hager's-town
to Sharpsburgh, where the road leading from Ringgold's manor,
to Clagett's mill, on Antietam creek, crosses the said main
road, and proceeding by the mill of John Sharer, on said creek,
to intersect the main road leading to Baltimore, at or near the
plantation of Francis Breathed, so as the same shall not be laid
out over any orchard, garden, yard or meadow, of any person,
without the consent of the owners thereof; provided, they after
viewing and surveying the grounds, shall deem it expedient. |
Expenses to be
levied. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of said county,
when a plot of the said road shall be returned by the commissioners
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. |
Commissioners
and overseer's
compensation. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
shall 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. |
| Damages to be assessed. |
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. |
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| Passed Dec. 27. |
CHAP. XXXVI.
An Act for the relief of Abraham Fuller, an Insolvent Debtor, of
the
City of Baltimore. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 56.
See Ch. 108. |
Benefit of insolvent
laws extended
to him. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the judges, or any one judge of Baltimore county court, be and
they, or any one of them, are hereby authorised and directed to |
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