| DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 67.
Passed Jan. 15, 1814. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. LXVII.
An Act for opening and extending Union or Green-Street, and Bottle
Alley, in the Western Precincts of the City of Baltimore.
Lib. TH.
No. 4, fol. 74. |
| Street may be extended. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the commissioners of the western precincts of the city of Baltimore
be and they are hereby empowered to open and extend Union or
Green-street in the western precincts of the city of Baltimore, commencing
on the south side of the Pratt street road, immediately
opposite the termination of the said Union or Green-street as already
laid out, ending on the said Pratt-street road, thence running in a
southerly direction the same width of, and corresponding with the
said Union or Green street to the George-Town road, and also to
open and extend Bottle-Alley in the western precincts of the city
of Baltimore, from its present termination to the intersection of the
said Union or Green-street; and the said street and alley, when so
opened and extended, and the valuation and assessment hereinafter
directed to be made shall have taken place, shall be deemed and
considered, and are hereby declared to be respectively a public
street and alley and highway for ever thereafter, and the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, are hereby directed to return a
plot, ascertaining the extent and limits of that part of the said
street and alley so opened and extended, to the clerk of Baltimore
county court, who shall receive and file the same in his office. |
| Damages to be ascertained. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or
a majority of them, shall value and ascertain the damages which
may be sustained by any person or persons through whose land the
said street may pass by the opening of the same, and shall apportion
the damage or determine the injury sustained by each owner
of property injured as aforesaid, in such proportions as they may
think just and equitable, and shall also declare what sum of money
each individual benefitted thereby shall respectively pay and contribute
towards compensating the person or persons injured by
opening and extending said street and alley; and the names of the
persons, and the sums of money which they shall be respectively assessed
to pay, shall be returned, under their hands and seals, to
the clerk of Baltimore county court, to be filed and kept in his office,
and the persons benefitted by the opening and extending said
street and alley, and assessed as aforesaid, shall respectively pay
the sums of money so charged and assessed to him, her or them,
with interest thereon, from the valuation of the same until paid. |
Right of persons
claiming damages
to be decided by
commissioners. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the right of any
person or persons
claiming, or who shall claim damages for any injury sustained
by the opening of the said street or alley, shall be decided and
determined by the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them. |
Sums assessed to
be a lien on property
benefitted. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums of money
so assessed
and charged to each individual benefitted by opening and extending
said street and alley, shall be a lien upon and bind all the property
so benefitted to the full amount thereof. |
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CHAP. LXVIII.
An Act to annul the Marriage of Everitt Wroe, and Mary Wroe his
Wife. Lib. TH. no. 4, fol. 75. |
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