| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
and said damages, and all the costs and expenses which shall be
incurred in the execution of this act, shall by said assessors be
levied on the proprietors of the property lying on said dock, according
to the benefit which in the opinion of said assessors they
shall respectively receive by said improvements, and the sum so
assessed shall be a lien on the property so determined to be benefitted,
and if necessary shall be collected by the collector of taxes
of the city of Baltimore, by sale of the property so awarded to be
benefitted, by giving at least thirty days notice of such sale in two
newspapers published in the city of Baltimore; and if said dock be
extended to the south side of Pratt-street, said commissioners shall,
for the safety of the passengers, put up a bulwark fence or wall
across the head of the same. |
1815.
CHAP. 34. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any vessel shall
be lying in
said dock, or at the entrance thereof, so as to obstruct any vessel
which shall be coming into the same, or moving from one place to
another therein, or going out thereof, the vessel so obstructing
shall be removed to such place as shall be necessary to give room
to the passing vessel under penalty at the rate of five dollars an
hour for the delay which shall be occasioned to the passing vessel,
to be paid by the master or owner of the obstructing vessel, to the
master or owner of the passing vessel, unless in cases where some
unavoidable casualty or accident may make it impracticable to remove
the said obstructing vessel; and if a vessel when moving to
make room for another, be obstructed by any vessel, the master or
owners of such obstructing vessel shall forfeit at the rate of five
dollars an hour during the continuance of such obstruction, to be
recovered by the master or owner of the passing vessel aforesaid,
and said money shall be recovered in the same manner that small
debts are recoverable; and every thing contained in this clause applicable
to vessels or the owners or masters thereof, shall be construed
to apply to boats, scows, rafts, arks, and the owners or
masters thereof. |
Obstructions. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said commissioners
shall have
power to borrow money to carry the operations aforesaid into execution,
and to pledge said levy or contribution therefor. |
Money may be
borrowed. |
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CHAP. XXXV.
A Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act to lay out and make public
a Road in Baltimore County.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 449. |
Passed Jan. 1, 1816.
* 1814, ch. 15. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
George Timaners, William Hissey, Thomas Buckingham, William
Wilson, junior and Thomas Wooden, be and they are hereby
appointed commissioners to lay out and open the road as is authorised
and directed in the act to which this is a supplement, and
that so much of the act aforesaid is as repugnant to the provisions
of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
road. |
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CHAP. XXXVI.
An Act for the benefit of William H. De Courey, of Queen-Anne's
County.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 450. A Private Act. |
Passed Jan. 1, 1816. |
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