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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
build a bridge over the White Marsh Run in Baltimore county, on
the road leading from Belle-Air to the city of Baltimore; and the
same, when assessed and levied, shall be paid unto Thomas Kell,
Philemon Towson and Israel Pearce, who are hereby appointed
commissioners to superintend the building of said bridge, and they,
or a majority of them, shall and are hereby authorised to employ a
workman or workmen to build the said bridge, and the same complete
as soon as possible. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 154. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the duty
of the said
commissioners to take bond or bonds from the said workman or
workmen, in such penalty and security as the levy court of Baltimore
county shall direct, conditioned for the faithful building and
constructing of said bridge, and that the said bond shall not be cancelled
until said commissioners shall have made report to the levy
court of Baltimore county that said bridge hath been finished agreeably
to contract. |
To take bond and
security from
workmen. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said commissioners,
after the
completion of said bridge, shall render a full account to the levy
court of Baltimore county, of all the money expended in building
the said bridge, and the money remaining in their hands not expended,
(if any,) after the completion of the same, shall be returned
to the said levy court for the use of said county. |
Accounts to be
rendered to
levy court. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall have
full power and authority to have the said bridge erected either at
the place where the old bridge formerly stood, or lower down the
run, as to them, or a majority of them, may appear most advisable,
and to alter the direction of the road as it now runs, so as to
meet the location of the bridge, if necessary, fixed by the commissioners
aforesaid. |
Discretionary
power of levy
court.
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CHAP. CLV.
An Act for the benefit of the Presbyterian Congregation of Queen-Anne's
and
Caroline Counties. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 491.
A Supplement, 1814, ch. 89. |
Passed Dec. 28. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the trustees
of the Presbyterian congregation of Queen-Anne's and Caroline
counties, that certain lands have been heretofore conveyed by
a certain Thomas Duckery to James Finley and Wlliam Price,
and by a certain Philemon Thomas to the aforesaid James Finley
and William Price, ruling elders of the said congregation, in trust,
for the benefit of the said Presbyterian congregation, and by reason
of the deaths of the said James Finley and William Price, ruling
elders, doubts have arisen as to the validity of the title to the
said property; therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the aforesaid lands, tenements and hereditaments, which have heretofore
been conveyed by the aforesaid Thomas Duckery to James
Finley and William Price, and by a certain Philemon Thomas to
the said James Finley and William Price, ruling elders as aforesaid,
in trust, for the benefit and use of the said congregation of
Queen-Anne's and Caroline counties, be and the same is vested
in the present trustees of the said congregation, and the successors
of the said trustees, appointed according to the rules and ordinances
of the said congregation. |
Lands vested in
trustees. |
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