| NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 51. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
they are subject to great inconvenience from the badness of the
road from Turkey Point to the Meeting-house in said neck; therefore, |
Commissioners authorised
to lay out
and open a road.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Samuel Aldridge, Alexander Wilson and Benjamin Mauldin, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority
of them, are hereby authorised, as commissioners, to lay out,
open and amend, at the expense of said county, a road from Turkey
Point to the methodist meeting-house in Elk Neck, so as to
do as little injury as possible to the lands through which it may
pass; Provided, that the said road shall not pass through any
houses,
gardens, orchards or meadows, without the consent of the
owners thereof; and that the said road when so laid out and completed,
shall be recorded among the land records of said county,
and be thereafter deemed and taken as a public road, and shall be
kept in repair as other roads in said county are directed to be. |
| To ascertain damages. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or
a majority of them, shall value and ascertain the damages that
may be sustained by any person or persons through whose lands
the said road may pass, by opening of the same, and the damages
so ascertained shall be levied and assessed as other county charges
are, and shall be paid over to the person or persons entitled to the
same. |
| To take an oath. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
before
they shall proceed to act, shall take an oath before some justice of
the peace, that they will, without favour or affection, prejudice or
partiality, assess the damages sustained by the person or persons
through whose lands the said road may pas, by reason of opening
the same. |
Persons who have
signed petition for
road not to be entitled
to damages. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no person or persons,
through
whose land the said road shall pass, and who have agreed or signed
the petition for the same, shall be entitled to any damages by this
act. |
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Passed Dec. 7.
* 1808, ch. 94. |
CHAP. LII.
A Further Additional Supplement to an act*, entitled, An act for
opening a certain Road in Baltimore County therein mentioned.
Lib.
TH. No. 3, fol. 384.
This act repealed by 1816, ch. 115. |
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Passed Dec. 7.
† 1807, ch. 75. |
CHAP. LIII.
A Supplement to the act †, entitled, An act to lay out and
make a
public Road in Baltimore County, passed the twentieth
of January,
eighteen hundred and eight. Lib. TH. No. 3,
fol. 385. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, that
a law having
passed in eighteen hundred and eight, appointing commissioners to
lay out, clear and open, a public road, from the east end of Dulany-street,
in the city of Baltimore, to communicate with the Philadelphia
road; and it appearing that the said road having been laid out
through the property of Jacob Landenslager, and no provision
having been made in the said law for remunerating the said Jacob
Landenslager for the damages sustained by the passage of the said
road through his property, therefore, |
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