| 1811.
CHAP. 146. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
others, until it intersects the divisional line of Charles and Saint-Mary's
counties, and thence until it falls into a road leading from
Chaptico to Charlotte Hall, near the dwelling of Gerard Hayden;
and to lay out, survey, mark and bound the same, not exceeding
twenty feet in width; and to make a plot of the said road when laid
out, surveyed, marked and bounded, and return the same under
their hands and seals, one copy of such plot to the clerk of Charles
county, and one other copy to the clerk of Saint-Mary's county,
to be by them recorded among the land records of the said counties,
and the said road, when so laid out, shall be and the same is hereby
declared a public highway; and the levy courts of Charles and
Saint-Mary's counties, at any meeting after the said plot shall
have been recorded, are hereby authorised and empowered to appoint
an overseer or overseers to keep their respective petitions of said
road in repair, as other public roads are kept in repair in said
counties; and the said levy courts are hereby further authorised and
empowered, to levy and assess upon the assessable property of said
counties, at the time of laying the next county levy, such sum or
sums of money as each of said levy courts may think sufficient to
pay the expense of opening the parts of said road lying in their
respective counties. |
| Damages to be ascertained. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall ascertain and value the damages which any
person or persons may sustain, through whose land the said road
may pass, by opening and clearing the same; and shall make and
return to the levy courts of Charles and Saint-Mary's counties, a
certificate of such valuation of damages, (if any,) sustained as
aforesaid, in their respective counties; and the levy court of each
or either of said counties, (as the case may be,) shall levy upon
the assessable property of their respective counties, a sum of money
equal to the amount of the damages ascertained as aforesaid in their
respective counties, which shall be paid to the person or persons
entitled thereto. |
| Allowance to commissioners. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall be
allowed two dollars per diem for their services, to be assessed and
levied on the assessable property of the counties, from which they
are respectively chosen. |
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Passed Jan. 4, 1812. |
CHAP. CXLVII.
A Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act authorising Commissioners
to open the Old Road leading from Richard Owings's Mill
in Anne-Arundel
County, to Elk Ridge Church in Queen Caroline Parish.
Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 181.
This act repealed by December 1813, ch. 156. |
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Passed Jan. 4, 1812. |
CHAP. CXLVIII.
An Act to authorise a Lottery for the benefit of Salisbury, in Somerset
and
Worcester Counties. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 182. |
Managers authorised
to raise 2000
dollars. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Thomas Hooper, George Maddux, Peter Dashiell, James Ritchie
and John Moore, or such of them as shall enter into bond as hereafter
required, be and are hereby authorised to raise, by lottery,
a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, after deducting the necessary
expenses. |
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