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CHAP. 45. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
which increase they shall be regulated by the net profits of the
preceding year. |
Tolls may be reduced
by legislature. |
16. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the said
tolls, as hereby
first established, shall, in any one year from and after the term of
three years after the completion of the said road, exceed in net
profits the sum of fifteen per centum per annum, then the legislature
may, at any subsequent session, and from time to time, reduce
the said tolls, provided that when thus reduced they shall not yield
in net profits a less sum than fifteen per centum per annum, and
in
making such reduction they shall be governed by the average of the
clear income and profits arising from the tolls of the three years
next preceding such reduction. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XLVI.
An Act, entitled, An act to enable John Sprigg Belt, James Walker
and Archibald Dorsey, to complete the Collection of
the County Tax
in certain districts in Anne-Arundel County. Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol.
60. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XLVII.
An Act incorporating a Society for the maintenance and education
of
Poor Female Children, by the name of the Female
Humane Association
Charity School. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 61.
This act repealed by 1807, ch. 145,
sec. 7, with a proviso confirming all acts
done. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XLVIII.
An act authorising the laying out a certain Road in Frederick County.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 64.
A Supplement, 1802, ch. 53. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it hath been represented to this general
assembly, by
the petition of Andrew Shriver, of Frederick county, that he and
a number of other inhabitants of said county labour under many
inconveniencies for want of a road to connect the road leading from
Petersburgh, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the town of
Westminster, in Frederick county, with the road leading from Hanover,
in the said commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the town of
Westminster aforesaid, and that the opening said road would be of
great public utility; therefore, |
Commissioners appointed
to open
road. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Joshua Cockey, John Miller and Nicholas Dill, be and they are
hereby authorised to open and clear a road, thirty-feet wide, from
the aforesaid road leading from Petersburgh, in the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, to the town of Westminster, in the county of Frederick
aforesaid, beginning at or near where said road crosses a
branch of Big Pipe creek; and the said road, so opened and
cleared, after the valuation herein after directed to be made, or the
damages hereinafter directed to be assessed, shall be paid or secured
to the individuals concerned, shall be recorded among the records
of Frederick county, shall for ever thereafter be deemed a |
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