| DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 71. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
the city of Baltimore, between Forrest-street and Johnson-street,
shall be and are hereby permitted, instead of filling up the whole
width or breadth of William and Johnson-streets until they intersect
a line extended eastwardly in a right line with and from the north
side of Lee-street, as required by the said act to which this is a
supplement, may leave docks sixty feet wide from the north side of
the street called Quay-street, laid out by the said Christopher
Hughes, which street shall run parallel with a right line extended
from the north side of Lee-street aforesaid, and shall be of the
width of fifty feet, and not more than two hundred and sixty feet
distant therefrom, and that the said Christopher Hughes, and any
other persons who now are or hereafter may be proprietors as
aforesaid, shall only be obliged to fill up and wharf out the breadth
of twenty-two feet and one half feet in front of each of the said
streets on the west sides of the said streets, filling up, wharfing
and extending that breadth on the west side of William and Johnson-streets,
from the north side of Quay street aforesaid, to the
north side of the said line extending eastwardly in a right line
with and from the north side of Lee-street as aforesaid, which said
continuation of the west side of the said streets called William and
Johnson-streets, the aforesaid Christopher Hughes, and other persons
proprietors of the said lots, are hereby permitted, authorised
and required to fill up, wharf out and make. |
Thoroughfare—
Wharfage. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Christopher
Hughes and
other proprietors of the said lots, shall leave open on the south
side of the said line extending eastwardly in a right line with and
from the north side of Lee-street aforesaid, between the waters of
the said Basin of Baltimore, and the buildings and improvements
to be made by them, a space of the width of fifty feet, running
eastwardly from Forrest-street to Johnson street, which space, and
also the said continuations of William and Johnson-streets, and the
said street called Quay-street of the width aforesaid, and extending
from Forrest-street to Johnson-street, shall ever remain open as
common highways, streets and thoroughfares, but the said Christopher
Hughes, and others the proprietors of the said lots and
wharves, shall be entitled solely and exclusively to the emoluments
arising from the wharfage thereof, including the wharfage of the
said wharves thus to be continued twenty-two feet and a half wide
in front of William and Johnson streets as aforesaid, and shall be
subject to the rules and regulations prescribed by the mayor and
city council of the city of Baltimore respecting the wharfage thereof. |
Mayor and city
council authorised
to fill up certain
spaces. |
3. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That
the mayor
and city council of Baltimore shall be and hereby are authorised
and empowered to fill up and wharf out, at the expense of the said
city, the aforesaid spaces of twenty-two and an half feet in front
of the said streets called William-street and Johnson-street on the
west sides thereof, and in that case shall be entitled to the wharfage
thereon as public wharves, on condition that the said mayor and
city council shall elect to do so at their next annual session after
the passing of this act, and shall commence the said work before
the month of June following, and shall complete the same so far as
relates to William-street on or before the first day of January in
the year eighteen hundred and fifteen, and so far as relates to |
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