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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CXVII.
An Act annulling the Marriage of Robert Offley and Sarah his Wife,
of Queen-Anne's
County. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 451. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 117.
Passed Dec. 23. |
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CHAP. CXVIII.
An Act for opening and extending Aisquith-Street, in the Eastern
Precincts
of Baltimore. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 451.
Supplements, May 1813, ch. 12; Dec.
1813, ch. 182; 1814, ch. 100, and 1815,
ch. 217. See Nov. 1809, ch. 34. |
Passed Dec. 23. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the city commissioners of Baltimore, be and they are hereby empowered,
to open and extend Aisquith-street in the eastern precincts
of Baltimore, commencing at the south end of the west line of said
street, thence running to Pitt-street, intersecting the same at right
angles, thence with Pitt-street to the east line of Lloyd's lane,
thence with said line to the end of the east line of Aisquith-street;
and the said street, when so opened and extend, and the valuation
and assessment hereinafter directed to be made shall have taken
place, shall be deemed and taken, and is hereby declared to be a
public street and highway for ever thereafter, and the said commissioners
are hereby required to return a plot, ascertaining the
limits and extent of that part of the street so opened and extended,
to the register of the city of Baltimore, who shall receive and file
the same as part of the plot of said city. |
City commissioners
may open and
extend street—its
direction. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sheriff of
Baltimore county,
after having given at least ten days notice on one of the newspapers
in the city of Baltimore, shall at any time before the twentieth
day of May next, summon twelve freeholders, inhabitants of the
said city or precincts, not interested in the premises, who being
first sworn to assess and value what damages shall be sustained by
any person or persons whomsoever by reason of the opening and
extending the said street, (taking all benefits and inconveniencies
into consideration,) shall proceed to assess and value what damages
may be sustained by any person or persons whomsoever by opening
and extending said street, and shall also declare what sum of
money each individual benefited thereby shall respectively contribute
and pay towards compensating the person or persons injured
by opening and extending said street; and the names of the persons,
and the sums of money which they shall respectively be obliged
to pay, and the time within which it is to be paid, shall be returned,
under their hands and seals, to the register of the city of Baltimore,
to be filed and kept in his office; and the persons benefitted by
the opening and extending of said street, and assessed as aforesaid,
shall respectively pay the sums of money so charged and assessed
to him, her or them, with interest thereon from the time limited for
the payment thereof. |
Jury to be summoned
to assess
damages. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums of money
so assessed
and charged to each individual benefitted by opening and extending
said street, shall be a lien upon and bind all the property so benefitted,
to the full amount thereof. |
Money assessed to
be a lien on property
benefitted. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the street aforesaid
shall not be
extended or opened through the property of any individual injured
thereby, until the damages by him, her or them, sustained and
assessed as aforesaid, shall be first tendered, paid, or secured to be |
Damages to be
paid before street
is opened. |
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