| NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 75.
Levy court may
appoint commissioners
to lay out
road.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court of Cecil county be and they are hereby
authorised, upon the application of a respectable number of the
inhabitants of said county, if the said court, upon consideration of
all circumstances, shall be of an opinion that such road would be
advantageous to said county, to appoint five commissioners to survey,
lay out and open, a road in Cecil county, from George
Mercer's meadow, where a public road is already laid out, to Rock
Run, to pass by James Rowland's mill until it intersects a road
from George Kidd's store towards Creswell's ferry, in as straight
a direction as the nature of the ground will admit, and with as little
injury to the individuals over whose land the same may pass, as
may comport with the public convenience; And provided, the said
road shall not be laid out through the garden, yard, meadow or orchard,
of any person or persons, without his, her or their consent,
in writing, first had and obtained; and a plot of said road, when
surveyed, confirmed and laid out, together with a certificate of the
courses of the same, shall be returned to the clerk's office of Cecil
county, there to be recorded. |
Levy authorised,
overseers may be
appointed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the plot of
said road shall
have been confirmed and recorded as aforesaid, it shall and may
be lawful for the levy court to levy upon the assessable property in
said county, a sum of money such as they shall deem necessary
under all circumstances, and to appoint an overseer or overseers
to open and clear said road agreeably to the plot and certificate
aforesaid, who shall give bond in like manner as other overseers of
public roads are directed to give bond, and shall have the same
allowance; and the said road, when opened and cleared as aforesaid,
shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, for ever thereafter,
a public road, and shall be kept in repair as other public
roads in said county. |
Compensation of
commissioners. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
respectively,
when named by the levy court as aforesaid, shall be entitled
to receive two dollars for every day they shall severally attend
to discharge the duties required by this act, which is hereby directed
to be levied, collected and paid, as other county charges are levied,
collected and paid. |
| Damages to be ascertained. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a
majority of them, shall value and ascertain the damages that may
be sustained by each and every of the persons through or on whose
lands the said road may pass (petitioners to the general assembly
for this road only excepted,) by opening the same, and the damages
so ascertained shall be levied and assessed as other county
charges are, and shall be paid over to the said persons respectively
over whose land said road may pass. |
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Passed Dec. 16.
* Ch. 67. |
CHAP. LXXVI.
A Further Supplement to an act passed at November session seventeen
hundred and ninety-six*, entitled, An act relating to
Negroes,
and to repeal the Act of Assembly therein mentioned.
Lib. TH.
No. 3, fol. 407.
See 1804, ch. 90, and the acts there referred to. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the act of assembly to which this is a further
supplement,
and the supplementary acts thereto, have been found by experience |
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