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CHAP. 173.
Damages to be ascertained. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall ascertain and value what damages may be sustained
by any person or persons, through whose land the said road
shall pass, and the same when so ascertained shall be paid, or secured
to be paid, by the persons who may apply to have the said
road laid out, to the person or persons who may be entitled to receive
the same, before they proceed to open the said road. |
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Passed Dec. 29. |
CHAP. CLXXIV.
An Act for the relief of Charles Thompson, of Dorchester County.
Lib.
TH. No. 3, fol. 509. A Private Act. |
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Passed Dec. 29. |
CHAP. CLXXV.
An Act for the benefit of James Gouty, Mary Gouty, Lucretia Gouty
and John Stevens Gouty, Orphan Children of Zachariah
Gouty,
late of Caroline County, deceased. Lib. TH.
No. 3, fol. 510. A
Private Act. |
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Passed Dec. 29. |
CHAP. CLXXVI.
An Act to lay out a Road in Baltimore County. Lib. TH.
No. 3,
fol. 511. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
and open a road. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Charles Jessop, Nathaniel Childs and Amos Ogden, jun. be and
they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority
of them, are hereby authorised and empowered to survey and lay
out, at the expense of the petitioners, a road not exceeding thirty
feet in width, commencing at a public road near Nicholas M. Bosley's
gate, thence running for the middle of the road, on the division
line between said Bosley and Morthland, until it intersects a
tract of land called Gearn, the property of John C. Owings,
thence east on the dividing line of said land, for the middle of the
road, between the said Owings, Morthland, and Joseph Thornburgh,
until it intersects the Baltimore and York turnpike road;
and the said commissioners shall make a plot of the road as aforesaid
directed to be laid out and opened, and return the same to the
clerk of Baltimore county court, to be recorded among the records
of said county; and the said road, when so laid out and opened as
aforesaid, and the valuation hereinafter directed to be made shall
be paid or secured to be paid to the individuals concerned, and
shall for ever thereafter be deemed and taken to be a public road,
and shall be kept in repair as other public roads in said county. |
Damages to be ascertained.
Proviso. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall ascertain and value, (if required,) what damages
may be sustained by any person or persons over whose lands the
said road may pass, by opening the same, taking into consideration
the advantages and disadvantages, (if any,) and the valuation
shall be made before the said commissioners shall proceed to open
the said road; Provided always, that if any person or persons
through whose land the said road may pass, or his, her or their
guardian or trustee, shall conceive themselves aggrieved by such
valuation and assessment of damages by the said commissioners,
it shall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace of said
county, on application of the party interested, or his, her or their
guardian or trustee, to issue his warrant, under his hand and seal, |
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