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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
and pay towards compensating the person or persons injured
by opening and extending the said streets and road; and the names
of the person or persons, and the sums of money which they shall
respectively be obliged to pay, shall be returned, under their hands
and seals, to the register aforesaid of the said city, to be filed and
kept in his office; and the person or persons benefitted by the opening
and extending of the said streets and the road, and assessed
as aforesaid, shall respectively pay the sum or sums of money so
charged and assessed, to him or them, with interest thereon, at the
rate of six per centum from the time limited for the payment
thereof. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 120. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums of money
assessed and
charged to each individual benefitted by extending and opening the
aforesaid streets and road, shall be a lien upon and bind all the
property so benefitted thereby, to the full extent thereof. |
Sums assessed to
be a lien on property
benefitted. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the persons
or persons injured
by opening and extending the said streets and road, shall not
be paid the damages by them respectively sustained and assessed
as aforesaid, within six months after the same shall be ascertained
as aforesaid, he, she or they, shall and may institute a suit or suits
in the Baltimore county court for the recovery thereof, in which it
shall be sufficient to declare for money had and received, and this
act, and the proceedings under the same, shall be evidence to support
such action or actions instituted as aforesaid. |
Persons not paid
damages may institute
suits. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the streets and
road aforesaid
shall not be extended or opened through the property of any individual
injured thereby, until the damages by them sustained and
assessed as aforesaid shall be first tendered, paid, or secured to be
paid, to their satisfaction, together with legal interest thereon,
from the time of ascertaining the damages by them respectively
sustained. |
They must be secured
to be paid
before streets or
road are opened. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall within forty days after the passing of this
act, give notice in two of the newspapers of the city of Baltimore,
warning all manner of persons from putting up or erecting any
building, fence, or incumbrance of any kind, within the limits of
the said streets or road, which shall be staked off by the said commissioners,
or a majority of them. |
Buildings or
fences not to be
erected within limits
of streets or
roads. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That that part of the
present road to
the ferry aforesaid, as may be public property, and which may
not be included in the streets or road as contemplated by this act
to be opened and extended, shall be set up and sold at public auction
by the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, and
the money arising from the sale thereof shall be applied to pay the
damages which may be sustained in consequence of the opening
and extending the streets and road as aforesaid. |
Public property
may be sold—proceeds
how to be
applied. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
the said commissioners, or a majority of them, to execute a deed
or deeds to any person or persons who may become a purchaser or
purchasers of the whole or any part of the ground which they shall
sell pursuant to the provisions of this act. |
Deeds may be executed
to purchasers. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
be allowed
two dollars per day for each and every day they may be necessarily
employed in the execution of the provisions of this act; and in case |
Compensation of
commissioners—
vacancies. |
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