| DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 136. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
sustained by any person or persons through whose land the said
road shall pass, taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages,
if any, and the same when so assessed, shall be paid,
or secured to be paid, by the person or persons who are interested
in having the said road laid out, straightened and amended as
aforesaid, or any other person or persons who may think proper to
contribute thereto, to the person or persons entitled to receive the
same, before they shall proceed to open the said road. |
Persons aggrieved
may have jury
summoned. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons through
whose land the said road shall pass, or his, her or their guardian
or trustee, shall conceive himself, herself or themselves, aggrieved
by such valuation and assessment of damages respectively, it shall
and may be lawful for any justice of the peace, on his, her or their
application, to issue his warrant, under his hand and seal, directed
to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon twelve disinterested
persons, qualified by law to serve as jurors in the county
court, to meet upon the premises on a certain day, of which six
days notice at least shall be given to the party or parties interested;
and the said jurors, when so met, and having each first taken an
oath before some justice of the peace, that he will, without favour,
affection, prejudice or partiality, assess the damages sustained by
the person or persons at whose request such inquisition shall be
taken, by reason of opening the said road through his, her or their
land, shall thereupon proceed to assess and value the damages accordingly,
taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages,
if any, and such inquisition and valuation shall be final
and conclusive between the parties respectively. |
| Repeal. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any thing in the
said original act,
or the supplements thereto, inconsistent with this act, be and the
same is hereby repealed. |
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Passed Jan. 28, 1814. |
CHAP. CXXXVII.
An Act to authorise a Lottery for finishing and completing the Protestant
Episcopal Church in Frederick-Town. Lib. TH.
No. 4, fol.
173. |
Lottery authorised
—Managers to
give bond. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That
William M. Beall, Doctor Philip Thomas, John Grahame, George
Baer, John Hanson Thomas, Doctor John Tyler, Richard Potts,
Thomas Shaw, William Ross and Benjamin Rutherford, of Frederick
county, or such of them as may undertake to act under this
law, may and they are hereby authorised to propose a scheme or
schemes of a lottery for raising a sum not exceeding six thousand
dollars, and to sell and dispose of the tickets thereof to any person
or persons whatsoever, any law to the contrary notwithstanding;
provided, that before proposing the said scheme or schemes the
persons aforesaid, or such of them as may undertake to act under
this law, shall execute and lodge in the office of the clerk of Frederick
county, their joint and several bond to the state of Maryland,
in the penalty of ten thousand dollars, with a condition that they
will well and truly pay, or cause to be paid, within six months after
the drawing of the said lottery, to the fortunate adventurers,
such prizes, if demanded, as may be drawn by them, with such
deduction from the said prizes as shall be mentioned in the said
scheme or schemes to be proposed as aforesaid, and shall well and |
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