| NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 88.
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
road.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Samuel Tenant, Robert Dodson, Nathan Harrington, Thomas
Hambleton and Daniel Fiddleman, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners to lay out, survey, mark and bound, a public road
in said county, not exceeding twenty five feet wide, at the expense
of the petitioners, beginning at the division line between James
Harrison and Samuel Harrison, or the division line between
James Harrison and Joseph Harrison, and running in such direction
to the public road leading from Easton to William Haddaway's
ferry as the nature of the ground and conveniencies of the
landholders over which the same may run will admit of; Provided,
that the said road shall not be laid out over any orchard, garden,
yard or meadow, of any person, without his or her consent in writing
first had and obtained. |
Plot thereof to be
returned to clerk
and recorded. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, are hereby directed to return a plot of said road
when surveyed, marked and laid out as aforesaid, to the clerk of
the county court, to be by him recorded; which road, when laid
out, cleared and made passable, and received by two justices of the
peace to be appointed by the levy court of the county aforesaid,
shall be deemed and taken as a public road for ever thereafter, and
shall be kept up and repaired as all other public roads in said county
are. |
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Passed Dec. 19. |
CHAP. LXXXIX.
An Act to incorporate a Company in the City of Baltimore, entitled,
The United Hose and Suction Engine Company. Lib.
TH. No. 3,
fol. 430. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the
members of the United Hose and Suction Engine Company, of the
city of Baltimore, have purchased an engine and other apparatus
for the extinguishment of fire, and have adopted a constitution for
the government of said company; and in order to give effect to the
laws, rules and regulations, which have or may be established by
the said company, it has been prayed that an act of incorporation
may pass in their favour; therefore, |
President, &c. incorporated.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
James Power, the president of said company, and such other persons
as are now or hereafter may become members of the same,
shall be and are hereby declared to be, one community, corporation
and body politic, for ever hereafter, by the name and style of
The United Hose and Suction Engine Company, and by that name
they shall be and are hereby made able and capable in law, to have,
purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain, to them and their successors,
lands, tenements, rents, annuities, or other hereditaments,
and the same to grant, demise, alien or dispose of, in such manner
as they may judge most conducive to the interest of the company;
Provided nevertheless, that the said corporation or body politic
shall not at any one time hold or possess property, real, personal or
mixed, exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars per annum. |
| Powers and privileges. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company,
and their successors,
by the aforesaid name, shall for ever hereafter be able and
capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer
and be answered, defend and be defended, in all or any courts of |
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