| DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 47. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
straighten and amend the same, as they in their judgment shall
deem most advantageous for said roads, and the inhabitants through
which the same shall or may pass; and the said commissioners, or
a majority of them, shall survey, mark and bound the said roads,
as altered, straightened and amended, by them, and a plot thereof,
with a certificate of the courses and distances of the same, return
to the clerk of the aforesaid county, to be by him recorded. |
| Damages to be ascertained. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall ascertain
what damages, if any, the owner or owners of land over
which the said roads may be laid, shall or may sustain, for and on
account of the same having been laid through or over their lands,
and return the same, under their hands, to the levy court of Harford
county, and the said levy court be and they are hereby empowered
and authorised to assess and levy, upon the assessable property
of said county, such sum or sums of money as shall be ascertained
by said commissioners to be due to the landholders aforesaid,
which said sum or sums of money shall be collected and paid over
as other county charges, and shall also assess such sum of money as
they in their judgement shall deem necessary for opening and clearing
said roads. |
| Overseers to be appointed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Harford county
shall appoint one or more overseers to open and clear the said road,
and when opened the same shall thereafter be deemed a public highway,
and shall be kept in repair as other public roads are in said
county. |
Commissioner
compensation. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
hereby
appointed, shall have an allowance of two dollars for every day
they shall severally attend in discharge of the duties herein imposed. |
Not to be laid
through any yard,
&c. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said road shall
not be laid
through the yard, orchard or garden, of any person or persons, without
first obtaining his, her or their consent. |
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Passed Jan. 10, 1814. |
CHAP. XLVIII.
An Act to authorise the Corporation of the City of Annapolis to
repair
certain Wharves. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 50.
See 1785, ch. 26, and 1818, ch. 194. |
Corporation authorised
to repair
certain wharves. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the
mayor, recorder, aldermen and common council, of the city of Annapolis,
be and they are hereby authorised to repair any private
wharves belonging to persons who shall refuse, after two months
notice to repair the same, and they are permitted to receive the
wharfage money of said wharves until such repairs are paid for, or
until the owners shall pay the expense of such repairs. |
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Passed Jan. 10, 1814. |
CHAP. XLIX.
An Act for the relief of Richard Thompson of Saint-Mary's County.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 50. |
Levy authorised
for his support. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the justices of the levy court of Saint-Mary's county shall and they
are hereby empowered, at their levy court annually, so long as
they shall see cause, to assess and levy on the assessable property
of said county, a sum of money not exceeding thirty dollars, for
the support and maintenance of the said Richard Thompson, and |
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