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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. VII.
An Act for the benefit of Benjamin Ward, of Prince-George's County.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 6. A Private Act. |
1801.
CHAP. 7.
Passed Dec. 31. |
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CHAP. VIII.
An Act to authorise the continuance of certain Causes in the Court
of Appeals. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 7. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS the indispensable engagements of the bar
prevent their
arguing causes of much consequence depending in the court of appeals,
and which causes cannot by law continue. |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the judges of the court of appeals shall be and they are hereby authorised
and empowered to continue any cause or causes now depending
in said court to and during June session next, if in their
opinion such continuance shall be necessary for the purpose of having
said causes decided on their merits. |
Judges may continue
causes. |
3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the judges
of the court of
appeals shall have power, and authority is hereby given to them, to
reinstate and continue to and during their next term, any cause or
causes that have gone off the docket by reason of the indisposition
of one of the judges, if in their opinion such reinstatements and
continuances are necessary to the merits of any such case. |
And reinstate certain
causes that
have gone off the
docket. |
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CHAP. IX.
An Act to alter the times of holding the County Courts in Frederick
and
Washington Counties. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 8.
A Supplement.
The times of holding the courts in
both counties changed by 1805, ch. 65,
s. 21, and 1815, ch. 12. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
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CHAP. X.
An Act to open a Road from Hancock-Town, in Washington County,
by William Tong's Mill, to intersect a Road from Cumberland,
in
Allegany County, to Sidling Hill Creek. Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 8.
A Supplement 1802, ch. 48. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Washington county, that it would
be of great advantage to themselves, and the public in general, to
have a road laid out from Hancock-town, to intersect a road from
Cumberland to Sidling hill; |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
William Tong, Lancelot Jacques and Thomas C. Brent, be and
they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and open as
aforesaid, at the expense of the subscribers to the said road, a
wagon road, in the most convenient direction, not exceeding forty
feet wide, from Hancock-town, in Washington county, by William
Tong's mill, to intersect a road leading from Cumberland to Sidling
hill creek; and the said road, when so laid out and completed
at the expense of the said subscribers, and after the valuation herein
after directed to be made, or secured to the individuals concerned,
shall be recorded among the records of Washington county, and
be thereafter deemed and taken to be a public road for ever, and
shall be kept in repair in the same manner as other public roads
are directed to be kept in said county. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
road. |
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