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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CLXXXIX.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act concerning the Chancery
Court. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 269. |
1811.
CHAP. 189.
Passed Jan. 7, 1812. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
every respondent in any case now depending, or which may hereafter
be brought in the chancery court of this state, shall have all
the benefits and advantages which are given to complainants by
the first section of the act to which this is a supplement, passed
at
November session eighteen hundred and six*. |
Respondents to
have all the benefits
and advantages
now given to complainants.
* Ch. 55. |
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CHAP. CXC.
An Act to make public a Road leading from Thomas Kell's Farm in
Baltimore County, to David Lee's Mill, on the Little
Falls of Gunpowder
River. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 270. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1812. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
such part of the road formerly opened as the road from Baltimore
to Belle-Air, which passes from Thomas Kell's farm to a small
run or field northward of William Dimmitt's house, be and the
same is hereby declared to be a public highway; Provided, the
owners of the land over which an extension of said road shall
pass, do open, clear out, make and extend the same, from the place
above mentioned, on as straight a course as the ground will admit,
to the fording place on the little falls aforesaid, at David Lee's
mill, the said extension to be approved by commissioners hereby
appointed to view the same. |
Part of said road
declared public.
Proviso. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That James Carroll,
Thomas Kell and
Nathaniel Baker, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners
to view the said road, when opened and extended as aforesaid, and
should they, or a majority of them, approve of the same, they
shall thereupon make out a plot of the said road as opened and approved
of, and return the same to the clerk of Baltimore county
court, to be recorded among the land records of said county; and
the said road shall for ever thereafter be deemed a public highway
of Baltimore county, and be kept in repair as other public roads
in said county.
See 1806, ch. 92. |
Commissioners appointed
—their duties. |
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CHAP. CXCI.
An Act to incorporate a Company to open the navigation of Zachia
Run. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 271.
Supplements, 1814, ch. 121; 1816, ch. 269. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1812. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the
opening of the Zachia Run, in Charles county, from the tide water
of the river Wicomico to the head of the said run, would essentially
conduce to the wealth and improvement of the said county;
and a number of persons have petitioned to be incorporated for
the above purpose, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful to open books in Port Tobacco, in
Charles county, for receiving and entering subscriptions for the
said undertaking, under the management of Samuel Chapman,
John Campbell, Francis Diggs, Jesse Jameson, Lawrence Posey,
Joseph Boarman, (of Leonard,) Smith Hawkins, Francis Hawkins,
Samuel Hawkins, William B. Smoot, (of Charles,) Joseph |
Books may be
opened for subscriptions
—stockholders
incorporated. |
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