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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the persons so
as aforesaid appointed,
or a majority of them, shall be of opinion such inconvenience
results as has been complained of, touching the navigation
of the said river, and that such inconvenience has resulted from an
improper exercise of the powers vested in said bridge company,
that then and in such case it shall be the duty of the said company,
under a forfeiture of the powers and authority vested in them
by the act to which this is a supplement, to remove such obstruction
and inconvenience as shall be ordered and directed by the persons
so as aforesaid appointed, in such manner as shall be prescribed
in the certificates by them so as aforesaid returned. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 140.
May remove obstructions
and inconveniencies. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the persons
so appointed shall
be divided in opinion touching the duties required of them by this
act, as to the inconvenience or the means by which the same is to
be remedied, that they shall proceed to appoint, by ballot, some
well informed disinterested person who shall act as umpire, and
whose decision shall be final and conclusive on all the subjects committed
to their decision under this act, the said umpire first taking
the same oath or affirmation as is prescribed for the persons first
appointed. |
If they should be
divided in opinion
to appoint an umpire. |
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CHAP. CXLI.
An Act for the benefit of Matilda Turner, of the City of Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 479. A Private Act. |
Passed Dec. 28. |
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CHAP. CXLII.
An Act to repeal an act, entitled, An act to change the name of
George-Town Cross Roads in Kent County. Lib.
TH. No. 3, fol.
479. |
Passed Dec. 24. |
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, by
the memorial of sundry inhabitants of Kent county, in the neighbourhood
of a village formerly called George-Town Cross Roads,
stating that the name of said village had been changed by an act of
the legislature of Maryland, passed at November session eighteen
hundred and eleven, chapter one hundred and nineteen, to that of
Colchester, to their injury, and praying that the said law may be
repealed, and that the said village may retain its former name;
therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the act, entitled, An act to change the name of George-Town Cross
Roads, in Kent county, passed at November session eighteen hundred
and eleven*, be and the same is hereby repealed, annulled and
made void. |
Act repealed.
* Ch. 119. |
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CHAP. CXLIII.
An Act to incorporate a Company for the purpose of building a Bridge
over the River Susquehanna, near Rock Run. Lib.
TH. No. 3,
fol. 480.
Supplements, 1814, ch. 66; 1815, ch.
131; 1816, ch. 175; and 1817, ch. 153.
See Dec. 1813, ch. 174; 1816, ch. 179, s. 9. |
Passed Dec. 24. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John Creswell, Samuel C. Hall and Lawrence McComb, of Cecil
county; John Stump, junior, John Archer and James Stevenson, of
Harford county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners,
and they, or a majority of them, are hereby required and directed, |
Commissioners appointed
to fix upon
a site. |
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