| NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 104. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
very poor, and has by afflictions, for a long time been rendered unable
to obtain the comforts of life by her labour; and praying that
the levy court may be authorised and directed to levy a small sum of
money on the assessable property of said county for her support out
of the poor-house; and the prayer of the petitioner appearing reasonable,
therefore, |
Levy authorised
for her support. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court of Caroline county be and they are
hereby authorised and directed, at their next sitting, and at their
session in every year thereafter, as long as they shall see cause,
to
levy on the assessable property of Caroline county, a sum of money
not exceeding thirty dollars, to be collected as other county
charges are, and paid over to the said Nancy Rouse, or to her order,
for her support and maintenance. |
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Passed Dec. 21. |
CHAP. CV.
An Act to lay out and make public a Road in Kent County. Lib.
TH.
No. 3, fol. 442. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS sundry respectable inhabitants of Kent county
have
preferred a petition to this general assembly, praying for certain
reasons therein mentioned, that a road may be opened and laid out
in said county; and the prayer of the petitioners appearing reasonable,
therefore, |
Commissioners appointed
to survey
and lay off a road. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
James Parker, Edward Eubanks, Lewis Blackinston, Jesse Knock
and William Moffitt, be commissioners, and they, or a majority of
them, are hereby authorised to survey and lay off a road, (provided
its utility shall deem it expedient,) not exceeding thirty feet
wide, in the most direct and practicable route, beginning at the road
leading from the Head of Chester to Smyrna, at any place the commissioners
may agree on, and to run from said beginning in as
straight a direction as the nature of the ground will admit of, and
with the smallest possible injury to the individuals over whose land
the said road may pass, until it intersects the Forrest road, leading
from Massy's Cross Roads to Smyrna, at or near the pass way over
the Cyprus Branch on said road, and until it intersects the Delaware
line, so as the same shall not be laid out through any orchard,
garden, yard or meadow, of any person, without the consent of
the owner, and when surveyed and laid out, to return a plot thereof
to the clerk's office of said county, to be there filed and recorded. |
Overseers may be
appointed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of said county,
when a plot of the road as aforesaid shall be returned by the commissioners
aforesaid, is hereby empowered at the next court thereafter,
to appoint an overseer or overseers to clear and open said
road, and to levy such sum of money as shall be considered reasonable
for the purpose of clearing and opening said road, and the
said road, when opened and cleared, shall be deemed a public road,
and shall be kept in repair in the same manner as other public roads
in said county are. |
Compensation of
commissioners. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
shall be entitled
to receive as a compensation the sum of one dollar and fifty
cents each, for every day they shall attend for the discharge of the
duties required of them by this act; and the said overseer or overseers |
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