| NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 102. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
intersect the road leading from the brick meeting house to Port
Deposit, on the Susquehanna, is necessary or beneficial to the inhabitants
of said county, shall have power and authority to appoint
three commissioners to view said ground, and lay off a road
not exceeding thirty feet wide, on the straightest direction the
ground will admit of, and have the same surveyed, and plain plots
made of the same, and return the said plots to the levy court of
the county aforesaid, under their hands; and said commissioners
shall have full power to bargain and contract with any person or
persons over whose lands the said road may pass, or adjudge the
damage any person or persons may sustain by the said road, and
make a return of all contracts by them made for land, or damages
adjudged by them, by reason of opening said road, to the levy
court, under their hands, and the said court may order the same to
be recorded, or reject the same or any part thereof; and the levy
court, under their hands, and the said court may order the same to
be recorded, or reject the same or any part thereof; and the levy
court shall levy on the assessable property of Cecil county, the expense
of the commissioners for viewing and surveying said road;
and if the levy court shall confirm the said road agreeably to the
return of the commissioners, and cause the same to be recorded,
the levy court shall then appoint a supervisor or supervisors to clear
and open said road, not exceeding thirty feet in width, and may
levy the expense of said road upon the assessable property of Cecil
county; or should the levy court be of opinion that said road is not
of public utility, but is only calculated to serve private individuals,
in that case the court shall grant said road on the application of
petitioners, they paying all damages and expense of said road; and
the levy court shall thereupon confirm the said road, and have it
recorded, and it shall then be kept open and repaired as other public
roads are in Cecil county. |
Damages, persons
aggrieved.
Proviso. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the person or
persons over
whose land the said road shall pass, shall think himself, herself or
themselves, aggrieved by the valuation and assessment of damages
of the commissioners aforesaid, then the person or persons so aggrieved
may apply to a justice of the peace of said county, to issue
his warrant, directed to a constable, commanding him to summon
five freeholders, to appear on the premises on a day to be mentioned
in the warrant, to assess and value the damages which the party
or parties may sustain by the road passing over his or her land;
which assessment and valuation of damages shall be final and conclusive;
and which damages shall be paid, or secured to be paid, to
the person or persons entitled to receive the same, before the commissioners
shall proceed to lay out said road; Provided, the said
road shall not pass through the yard, garden, orchard or meadow,
of any person or persons, without his or their consent. |
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Passed Dec. 19. |
CHAP. CIII.
An Act to lay out a Road from Robert Wilson's Tavern, on the old
York Road. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 440. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly
by the petition
of sundry persons in Baltimore county, that a road from
Robert Wilson's tavern, on the old York road, to intersect a road
laid out, beginning near Richard Brittain's mills, will be of great
public use and convenience; therefore, |
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