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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
and value what damages may be sustained by any person
or persons through whose lands the said road may pass, or the said
landing may be laid off, and the said valuation shall be made and
paid, or secured to be paid, before the commissioners shall proceed
to open and clear the same; and in case any proprietor or proprietors
shall conceive him, her or themselves, aggrieved by the valuation
of the said commissioners, it shall and may be lawful for the
commissioners, or a majority of them, on the application of any
person interested, to issue their warrant, under their hands and
seals, to the constable of the hundred where such lands may be,
commanding him to summon twelve freeholders, not interested in
the said lands, to appear on a day by them appointed, on the said
lands, at which time and place, such freeholders so summoned shall
respectively appear before the said commissioners, and take the
following oath, to wit: " I, A. B. do swear, that I will honestly,
without prejudice or partiality, value the damages and injury that
may be sustained by opening a road or landing through the lands
of _____ _____, (as the case may be,) in pursuance of this act of assembly."
and shall return an inquisition of such damages so assessed
to the clerk of Worcester county court, and the damages so
assessed shall be conclusive. |
DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 38. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the persons who
may conceive
themselves interested or benefitted by the aforesaid road, are hereby
required to pay, or secure to be paid, into the hands of the commissioners
aforesaid, or some one of them, for the use of the person
or persons in whose favour such valuation may be made, previous
to laying out and opening the road and landing aforesaid, and
in case of failure of payment, or security as aforesaid, this act to be
null and void, but in case of compliance with the provisions of this
act, the said road shall be considered a public highway, and be kept
up in the same manner as other public roads in said county. |
To be paid by
persons interested
in road. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That after the damages
aforesaid are
paid, and the said landing is laid off, and the said road laid out,
opened and cleared, the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of
them, are hereby directed to return a plot of said road and landing
to the clerk's office of Worcester county, there to be recorded, and
shall at the same time return the estimate of the damages which may
have been ascertained as aforesaid, together with a certificate that
the same have been paid or secured to be paid. |
Plot of same to be
returned and recorded. |
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CHAP. XXXIX.
An Act for the benefit of Mary Jackson, of Worcester County.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 44. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1814. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the justices of the levy court of Worcester county shall and they
are hereby directed and empowered, 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, nor less
than twenty dollars, for the support and maintenance of Mary
Jackson, of said county, and the same, when collected, shall be
paid by the collector of said county to the said Mary Jackson, or
her order, for the purpose aforesaid. |
Levy authorised
for her support. |
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