| NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 33.
Passed Dec. 4.
* 1811, ch. 23. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. XXXIII.
A Supplement to an act*, entitled, An act to empower Rebecca Candler
and John Candler, Administrators of William Candler,
late Sheriff
and Collector of Montgomery County, to collect
Fees and County
Taxes put into his hands for Collection during his life-time.
Lib.
TH. No. 3, fol. 369. |
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Passed Dec. 4. |
CHAP. XXXIV.
An Act for extending Green-Street, in the City of Baltimore.
Lib.
TH. No. 3, fol. 370.
Supplements Dec. 1813, ch. 176, and 1815, ch. 201. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by a number
of the inhabitants of the city of Baltimore, that their convenience
would be very materially promoted by extending Green-street
in said city; and the said petition appearing reasonable and
just, therefore, |
City commissioners
empowered to
extend street. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the city commissioners be and they are hereby empowered, to extend
Green-street in the said city, forty feet in breadth from Pitt-street
to Great York-street, so as to open a communication between
said Green-street and Exeter-street, commencing nearly opposite
the south end of Green-street, and ending nearly opposite the north
end of Exeter-street; and the said street, when so opened and extended,
and the valuation and assessment herein after 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
extended and opened, to the register of the city of Baltimore, who
shall receive and file the same as part of the plot of the city of Baltimore. |
Sheriff may summon
disinterested
persons to assess
damages. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sheriff of
Baltimore county,
after having given at least ten days notice in one of the news-papers
of the city of Baltimore, shall at any time before the first Monday
of May next, summon twelve freeholders, inhabitants of the said
city, 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
aforesaid street, taking all benefits and inconveniencies into consideration,
shall proceed to assess and value what damages may be
sustained by any person or persons whomsoever, by 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 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. |
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