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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
the plots of other public roads in the said county are recorded; and
the said road shall thereupon be a public road, and shall thereupon
be opened and kept in repair in the same manner that other public
roads have been opened and kept in repair in the said county; and
to defray the expense of doing so, the said court shall levy upon the
taxable property of the said county, a sum sufficient therefor. |
1814.
CHAP. 18. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the said
commissioners
die, refuse to act, resign, or in any way be unable to act in the
premises, the levy court of Washington county shall appoint one or
more, as the case may be, to supply such vacancy. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
acting in virtue
of this law, shall each of them have and receive from the levy
court aforesaid, two dollars for each day they shall be actually employed
about the said road; and the levy court aforesaid shall make
a reasonable allowance for the surveyor and chain-carriers to be
employed by the said commissioners in laying out the said road. |
Commissioners
compensation. |
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CHAP. XIX.
An Act to lay out and make public a Road in Frederick County.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 249. |
Passed Jan. 9, 1815. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Nicholas Holtz, Isaac Mantz, Robert McPherson, Valentine Buckey
and David Buckey, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners,
and they, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised to
lay out, make public, widen and straighten, at the expense of the
petitioners, or such of them as may be willing to contribute thereto,
the road now leading from George Shafer's to Bartgis's paper mill,
and thence to Brown's, on the west side of the Catoctin mountain,
and thence by Delawter's mill till it intersects the new cut road
from Frederick-town to Hughe's coaling ground, so as to do as
little injury as possible to the lands through which it passes; Provided,
that the said road shall not pass through any houses, gardens,
orchards or meadows, without the consent of the owners
thereof; and that the said road, when so laid out and completed,
shall be recorded among the land records of said county, and be
thereafter deemed and taken to be a public road, and shall be kept
in repair as other public roads in said county are directed to be. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
road.
Proviso. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or
a majority of them, shall value and ascertain the damages that may
be sustained by any person or persons through whose land the said
road may pass, by opening and making the same, and the damages
so ascertained, shall be paid over to the person or persons entitled
to the same, before the said road shall be recorded or considered
to be a public road. |
Damages to be ascertained. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, before they proceed to act, shall each take 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 through whose land the said road shall pass; Provided,
that no person or persons through whose land the said
road shall pass, and who has signed the petition for the same, shall
be entitled to any damages by virtue of this act. |
Commissioners to
take an oath.
Proviso. |
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