| 1811.
CHAP. 123.
City commissioners
authorised to
open and extend
said street. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the commissioners of the city of Baltimore shall be, and they are
hereby authorised and empowered to open and extend Saint-Paul's-street,
commencing at its intersection with North-street, as laid
down on a plot of that part of the city and precincts made by Smiths,
and Williams, and recorded in Baltimore county court, and running
east forty-nine and one half feet wide until it connects with
Fish-street, and so that the south side of Saint Paul's-street shall
intersect Fish-street by a straight line running east; and the said
street when so opened and extended, and the valuation and assessments
hereinafter directed to be made shall have taken place, shall
be deemed and taken, and is hereby declared to be a public street
and highway for ever thereafter; and the said commissioners are
hereby required to return a plot ascertaining the limits and extent
of the said street when so opened and extended, to the register of
the city of Baltimore, who shall receive and file the same as part of
the plot of the city and precincts of Baltimore. |
Freeholders to value
damages. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sheriff of
Baltimore county,
after having given at least ten days notice in one of the newspapers
of the city of Baltimore, shall, at any time before the first Monday
of May next, summon twelve freeholders, inhabitants of the said
city and precincts, not interested in the premises, who being first
sworn to assess and value what damages shall be sustained by any
person or persons whomsoever, by reason of the opening and extending
the said street, shall proceed to assess and value what damages
may be sustained by any person or persons whomsoever, by
reason of opening and extending the said street, and shall also
declare what sum of money each individual benefitted thereby shall
respectively contribute and pay towards compensating the person
or persons injured by opening and extending the said street; and
the names of the person or persons, and the sums of money which
they shall respectively be obliged to pay, shall be returned under
their hands and seals to the register aforesaid of the said city, to be
filed and kept in his office; and the person or persons benefitted by
the opening of the said street, and assessed as aforesaid, shall respectively
pay the sum or sums of money so charged and assessed
to him or them, with interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum
from the time limited for the payment thereof.
See 1816, ch. 103. |
Money charged to
persons benefitted
shall be a lien upon
property. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums of money
assessed and
charged to each individual benefitted by extending and opening the
aforesaid street, shall be a lien upon, and bind all the property so
benefitted thereby to the full amount thereof. |
Persons not paid
for damages sustained
may institute
suits in county
court. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the person
or persons injured
by opening and extending the said street shall not be paid the
damages by them respectively sustained and assessed as aforesaid,
within six months after the same shall be ascertained as aforesaid,
he, she or they, shall and may institute suits in Baltimore county
court for the recovery thereof, in which it shall be sufficient to declare
for money had and received; and this act and the proceedings
under the same shall be evidence to support such action or actions
instituted as aforesaid.
See 1816, ch. 103. |
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