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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
drain shall be made, adjoining each other, part on one side thereof,
and part on the other, in which case each shall pay in proportion
to the part he or she shall or may hold. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 157. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said directors,
or any three
of them, shall have full power and authority, at any time thereafter,
to cut, open and complete, the said drain or ditch so to be
opened and cut in virtue of this act, and also from time to time to
repair, cleanse, and keep open and in good order, the said ditch or
drain, at the expense of the said proprietors, in the same proportion
that the expenses of cutting and opening the said ditch or drain
in the first instance, and of repairing and cleansing the same
when cut and opened, the said directors, or any three of them,
are hereby authorised to apportion what they may conceive the expense
thereof will amount to, and demand and receive such proportions
respectively, by suit or otherwise, from the said proprietors,
before or at any time after the commencement of the said
work, or after the same is finished; Provided always, that inasmuch
as it may be inconvenient for some of the proprietors, through
whose land the said ditch or drain shall pass, to satisfy and answer
all the expenses of cutting and opening the said ditch or drain
at one time, the said directors, or any three of them, shall make
an estimate of the expense of cutting the said ditch or drain through
that part of the branch or swamp in which said ditch or drain shall
pass, and apportion the same as above directed, and that the same
be paid by the proprietors respectively of that particular part of the
said branch, unto the said directors, at three annual payments, one
third of which to be discharged on or before the first day of March
eighteen hundred and fourteen, one-third on or before the first day
of March eighteen hundred and fifteen, and the remaining third on
or before the first day of March eighteen hundred and sixteen. |
Directors authorised
to cut, open
and complete
drain, and keep
the same in repair.
Proviso. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of death
or resignation,
refusal or disqualification to act, of the persons chosen directors,
at any time hereafter, it shall and may be lawful for the said other
directors to meet as soon as may be thereafter, at their place of
meeting as aforesaid, to choose a person in his stead to act as director
till the next annual meeting of the said proprietors, and if
the directors therein disagree in such choice, they shall determine
the same by drawing lots for the persons put in nomination, and the
person in whose favour the matter shall be so determined, shall be
and he is hereby declared the director to all intents and purposes
until the succeeding annual election. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
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CHAP. CLVIII.
An Act vesting the Property therein mentioned in certain Trustees
for
the use and benefit of the Society of Friends, or people
called Quakers,
constituting the Monthly Meeting of Baltimore, for the
Eastern
District in the City of Baltimore. Lib. TH.
No. 3, fol. 494. |
Passed Dec. 29. |
WHEREAS by an act of the general assembly of Maryland,
passed
at November session one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three*,
entitled, An act to confirm the title of certain lots of ground
to the society of people called Quakers in Baltimore-town, whereon
is their meeting-house and burying ground, reciting among
other things, that it was represented to the legislature by the monthly |
Preamble.
Ch. 20. |
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