| NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 156.
Passed Dec. 28. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. CLVI.
An Act for the benefit of Moses Grier, of Worcester County.
Lib.
TH. No. 3, fol. 492. |
Levy authorised
for his support. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the
justices of the levy court of Worcester county are hereby authorised
and empowered, and they shall at their next levy court, and
at their levy court annually, so long as they shall see cause, to
levy on the assessable property of said county a sum of money
not exceeding thirty dollars, for the support and maintenance of
Moses Grier of said county, and the same shall be collected and
paid over to the said Moses Grier, or his order, in the same manner
as other county charges are collected and paid in said county. |
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Passed Dec. 29. |
CHAP. CLVII.
An Act for draining a Branch or Swamp called Betree Swamp, lying
in Caroline County. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 492. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of Samuel Harper, William Norris, Richard Keene, and
others, that they are possessed of part of a valuable branch or
swamp called Betree Swamp, lying in Caroline county, and as
there is good foundation to believe that very great advantages
might be derived, as well to the public as the proprietors of the
said branch or swamp, if the same could be effectually drained,
and as it cannot be well accomplished without the aid of the legislature,
by passing an act to secure the joint exertions of all the
said proprietors: And whereas it appears to this general assembly
that it will be of public utility to extend the aid of the legislature
in order to accomplish so good an object, therefore, |
Directors to be
elected—Drain
may be opened. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the proprietors of the land on the
Betree Swamp, extending from the main road leading from Greensborough
to Keen's Cross Roads, at and near Thomas Clendening's,
down the said swamp until it intersects the great ditch or main
branch at Tuckahoe Creek, to meet in each and every year hereafter
at Thomas Clendening's, or at any other place which a majority
of the proprietors shall appoint in Caroline county, and for
such proprietors, or a majority of those who shall attend at the
said meeting, then and there annually to elect, by ballot, five of the
said proprietors for directors, who, when so elected and chosen,
are hereby authorised and empowered, or any three of them, to
make and open a drain or ditch down said branch from the main
road near Thomas Clendening's until it intersects the main branch
of Tuckahoe Creek aforesaid, in such direction, and of such width
and depth, as they, or a majority of them, may judge most proper,
not exceeding eight feet wide, to carry off the water from the said
branch or swamp, and reduce the same to dry land; and the power
and authority of the said directors, so to be chosen, shall continue
and be in force until the next annual election of directors. |
Costs shall be paid
by respective proprietors. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the costs, charges
and expenses,
of cutting and opening the said ditch or drain, shall be paid by
the respective proprietors of the same, each paying for the cutting
and opening the said drain or ditch through his or her own land, except
where it shall so happen that two or more of the said proprietors
hold parts of the said branch through which the said ditch or |
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