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CHAP. 44. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
declared to be a public highway for ever thereafter, and shall be
kept in repair as other public roads in said county. |
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Passed Jan. 5, 1816. |
CHAP. XLV.
An Act for the benefit of the Heirs of John Stevens, deceased, of
Worcester
County. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 459. A Private Act.
A Supplement, 1816, ch. 128. |
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Passed Jan. 5, 1815. |
CHAP. XLVI.
An Act to make public an old Road leading from Benjamin Rice's Merchant
and Saw Mills, by the Widow Kemp's, and Christian Drill's
Mills, to the road leading from New-Town, (Trapp,) to
Tramelsburgh.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 461. |
Commissioners appointed
to straighten
and make public
a road.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
David Lakin, George W. Boerstler, Perry Hilleary, Arthur Botler
and Lloyd Luckett, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners
to widen, straighten, amend and make public, (at the expense
of those persons who shall conceive themselves benefitted
thereby,) the present road, (not exceeding thirty feet wide,) from
Benjamin Rice's merchant and saw mills on Catoctin creek, to pass
through the lane dividing the lands of said Rice and William Lynch,
to the widow Kemp's merchant mill, thence to the brick merchant
mill owned by Christian Drill, thence with said present road, to the
place where the same intersects the line dividing the lands of George
Drill and the said widow Kemp, thence with the said line easterly to
the end thereof, thence with the line or lines dividing the lands of
James Simmons and Frederick Barger, to the place where
the same crosses the main road, leading from New-town, (Trapp,)
to Tramelsburgh, the said road to be laid out so as to bear equally
upon the landholders on the lines aforesaid; Provided, the said
road
shall not be laid out so as to include a stone fence belonging to the
aforesaid widow Kemp near one of the lines aforesaid. |
Plot thereof to be
made and recorded.
Proviso. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall and they are hereby directed and required, to
make, or cause to be made, a plot of said road, when surveyed as
aforesaid, and shall make a return of said plot, together with a certificate
of the courses of said road to the clerk of Frederick county,
to be recorded among the records of said county; and when the same
shall be widened, straightened, amended, and made public, as directed
by this act, the said road shall be kept in repair as other public
roads of Frederick county; Provided, the said commissioners shall
not lay out the said road through the buildings, gardens, orchards
or meadows, of any person or persons, without their consent. |
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Passed Jan. 4, 1816. |
CHAP. XLVII.
An Act authorising a Lottery to raise a sum of money for the purpose
of repairing the Presbyterian and Lutheran Church in
Emmittsburgh
in Frederick County. Lib. TH. No. 4,
fol. 462. |
Lottery authorised
—bond to be given. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for Philip Nunamaker, Jacob Harbaugh,
junior, Michael Blessinger, Peter Troxel, George Sheets, George |
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