| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, are hereby authorised and required, (having first
given twenty days notice of the time and place of their meeting by
public advertisement,) to issue summonses for such person or persons
as may be applied for by any of the proprietors aforesaid,
which said witnesses are hereby required to attend under the penalty
of five dollars for every neglect or refusal, and to examine them
upon their corporal oath or affirmation, (as the case may be,)
touching and concerning their knowledge of the bounds, limits and
extend, of any of the lots, streets and lanes, of the said town,
and establish the same accordingly; and such witness, attending
under any summons issued as aforesaid, shall be entitled to receive
one dollar for every day he shall so attend. |
1815.
CHAP. 13.
Witnesses may be
summoned, &c. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the proprietors
of the lots, or any part of a lot in the said town, to provide
boundary stones, and to have them marked and set up at the
termination of the line or lines of their respective lots, in the presence
of the said commissioners, or a majority of them, which
shall thereafter be deemed and taken to be the true bounds of the
said lots, or any of them. |
Boundary stones. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, If any of the commissioners
shall die,
refuse, neglect, or be rendered incapable to act, the remaining commissioner
or commissioners may appoint some other person in the
place of the person or persons who shall so die, refuse, neglect or
be incapable to act. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each of the said
commissioners
shall be allowed two dollars per day for each and every day they
shall attend as commissioners aforesaid, and that the surveyor shall
be allowed three dollars per day for each and every day he shall be
employed by the commissioners for the purpose aforesaid. |
Commissioners
compensation. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all expenses incurred
in the execution
of this act, shall be paid by the proprietors in the proportions
to the number of lots they may severally own or possess. |
Expenses, how to
be paid. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before any commissioner
or surveyor
shall proceed to the execution of the duties required of them
by this act, he shall take an oath or affirmation, (as the case may
be,) before some justice of the peace for the county aforesaid, that
he will well and truly discharge the duties enjoined upon him by
this act, according to the best of his judgment, without favour, affection
or partiality. |
Commissioners to
take an oath. |
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CHAP. XIV.
An Act to lay out and make public a Road therein mentioned, in Cecil
County. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 416. |
Passed Dec. 20. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
David Mackey, John Jordan and John Pitner, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners for the purpose of this act, and
that they, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised and required
to survey and lay out a wagon road, not exceeding thirty
feet in width, beginning on the public road between Fair-Hill and
Brick-Hill, near the corner of the lands of Jesse Tyson and Robert
Karr, and on the line of Stephen Beanes, the said road to run an
easterly course along the line of the lands of said Tyson and Karr,
or thereabouts, as commissioners may judge best, in a direction |
Commissioners appointed
and authorised
to lay out
a wagon road. |
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