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CHAP. 71. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
their hands and seals to the justice who issued the warrant, one
copy of their said valuation, one other company to the president
of the said company, and one other copy to the owner or owners
of the said materials, if such owner shall reside in the county
where the said materials may be, and shall not be under any legal
disability to receive the money adjudged, and give sufficient discharges
therefor; and the president and managers shall pay, or secure
to be paid, the damages so adjudged, before they shall proceed
to remove the said materials; and if the owner or owners of
such materials shall reside out of the county, or be under any legal
disability, then the president and managers shall enter into
bond, conditioned for the payment of the damages assessed to the
person or persons who may be duly authorised to receive the same,
and shall lodge said bond, and a copy of such valuation, in the office
of the clerk of the county court, to be by him recorded, and upon
such bond, or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted
against the obligors therein named, by any person or persons
entitled to receive such damages; and the justice and sheriff shall
be entitled to receive the same fees for services under this act as
they are allowed in similar cases; and the persons summoned as
jurymen to value the damages sustained as aforesaid, shall receive
one dollar for every day he shall attend for that purpose, which
fees and allowances shall be paid by the president and managers
of the company at whose instance the persons may have been summoned. |
Bridges to be erected
over waters
crossing said road. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president,
managers
and company, shall erect permanent bridges over all the waters
crossing the said road, wherever the same shall be found necessary,
and shall cause eighteen feet thereof in breadth at least to be
made an artificial road, which shall be bedded with stone or gravel,
or any other hard substance, well compacted together, a sufficient
depth to secure a solid foundation for the same; and the said
road shall be faced with gravel, or stone pounded, or other small
hard substance, in such manner as to secure a firm, and as near as
the materials will reasonably admit an even surface, and so nearly
level in its progress as that it shall in no place rise or fall more
than will form an angle of four degrees with an horizontal line,
and shall for ever hereafter, during the continuance of the said incorporation,
maintain and keep the same in good and perfect order
and repair. |
Road to be inspected
by persons appointed
by the
governor. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That as soon as the
president, managers
and company, shall have perfected the said road for any distance
from the town of Boonsborough not less than five miles, and
so on from time to time any other like distance progressively, they
shall give notice thereof to the governor of this state, who shall
thereupon forthwith nominate and appoint three skilful and judicious
persons to view and examine the same, and report to him in
writing, whether the said road is so far extended in a masterly
workmanlike manner, according to the true intent and meaning of
this act, and if their reports shall be in the affirmative, then the
governor shall, by license under his hand and seal of the state,
permit and suffer the said president, managers and company, to
erect and fix such and so many gates or turnpikes upon and across |
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