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CHAP. 32. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
county, that then the said commissioners shall cause to be surveyed,
at the expense of the said Samuel Ringgold, the grounds on
which, in their opinion, the road may be run with greater convenience
to the county, and without delay, execute, sign and seal, plain
plots of the same, with explicit explanations thereof, and make return
of such plots and explanations to the levy court of the said
county, who, on receiving such plots and explanations, shall examine
the same, with all the evidence that may be offered for or
against the said road, as returned, and upon consideration of all
circumstances, may reject or confirm the same, as part of the road
leading from Turner's Gap to William's Port, and shall cause the
same, if confirmed, to be recorded among the land records of
Washington county, and shall direct the said commissioners to
mark and bound the said road sixty feet in width; and upon the
said road, so laid out and confirmed, being opened, cleared and
improved, by the said Samuel Ringgold, at his expense, the said
road shall be deemed part of the main road leading from Turner's
Gap to William's Port, and shall be kept in repair as all other public
roads in the said county are by law directed to be kept. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XXXIII.
An Act to authorise Commissioners to review the Roads leading from
the Mouth of Monocacy to George-Town and the City of
Baltimore,
through the lands of Levin Luckett, in Montgomery County.
Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 40. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS Levin Luckett, by his petition to this general
assembly,
hath set forth, that he is possessed of a tract of land at the
mouth of Monocacy, in Montgomery county, at which place a
number of roads center, to the great injury and inconvenience of
the plantation on said land, and hath further set forth, that the
main road from George-town hath been laid out by the commissioners
through a long narrow field, and over marshy ground, and
hath prayed that he may be authorised to turn said road on the
edge of his field, as also the road leading to the city of Baltimore,
and to discontinue the old George-town road; therefore, |
Commissioners appointed
to view
lands. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Thomas Morton, Thomas Veatch, Abraham Jones, Thomas N.
Harwood and Solomon Davis, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners, with full power and authority to enter on the lands
of the said Levin Luckett, and if upon viewing the premises and
the roads that run through the same, they shall be of opinion that
no material injury would result to the public by altering or changing
the said road, then the said commissioners, or a majority of
them, shall cause the said roads to be surveyed and laid out anew,
and a certificate and plot of the same, and the courses thereof, to
be made under the hands and seals of the said commissioners, or
such of them as shall act, being a majority, and shall return the
same to the levy court of the said county, and if the said court
shall approve of such alteration as made by the commissioners
aforesaid, and shall confirm the same, the said road shall be recorded
among the land records of the said county as a public
road. |
Road, when altered,
deemed public. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the said roads
are so altered,
changed and laid out anew, the certificate and plot returned |
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