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CHAP. 58. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
or funeral, on days appointed for that purpose, or from militia
men on days of training, or from voters on days of election attending
the polls, going to and returning from the same. |
Privileges, rights,
&c.
* Ch. 78. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said company shall
be and are
hereby invested and clothed with all the privileges, rights, immunities
and advantages, which are held and possessed by the turnpike
company incorporated by an act passed at November session eighteen
hundred and twelve*, entitled, An act to incorporate a company
to make a turnpike road from the District of Columbia to the
city of Baltimore, to be governed by the same regulations as are
therein prescribed, and to be entitled to the same tolls, and every
clause and provision of said act relative to the road therein proposed
to be made, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent
with this act. |
Corporation may
become stockholders. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be lawful
for any corporation
or body politic in the United States to become stockholders in
said company. |
Road not being
commenced in two
years rights to revert
to state. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if said company
do not proceed
to carry on said work within two years after the passage of this act,
or shall not within ten years thereafter completed the said road, it
shall be lawful for the legislature of this state to resume the rights,
privileges, liberties and franchises, granted by this act to said
company. |
| Damages to be estimated. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the county court
of Frederick
county shall appoint five commissioners, who shall estimate the
amount of damages sustained by any person or persons by reason
of said road passing through his, her, or their land, or by taking
stone, gravel or other materials, for the use of said road, in cases
where the parties cannot agree, which estimate shall be final in determining
such damages. |
No toll gate to be
put up within one
mile of New Windsor,
&c. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no toll-gate shall
be put up within
one mile of New-Windsor or within one mile of Westminster. |
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Passed Jan. 6, 1816. |
CHAP. LIX.
An Act to lay out and open a Road in Harford County. Lib.
TH.
No. 4, fol. 488.
A Supplement, 1816, ch. 122. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
and open a road. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Richard Hope, Daniel Thompson and James St. Clair, be and they
are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority of
them, are hereby authorised and empowered, to lay out and open
a road not exceeding thirty feet in width, to commence at George
Carriers' bars on the Coop-town road, thence pursuing the old private
road to and by Nicholas D. McComas's gate to the field of Joshua,
William and Aquila Amos, and then through the said field,
in the best direction the nature of the ground will admit of, to the
main road leading from Slade's mill to the city of Baltimore, and
the said commissioners shall survey, mark and bound, the said road,
as laid out by them, and return a correct plot thereof, under their
or a majority of their hands and seals, to the clerk of Harford county
court, to be by him recorded. |
Expenses to be
levied. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Harford county
be and they are hereby directed, upon the plot of said road being
returned to the clerk's office of said county, to levy such sum of |
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