| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CIV.
An Act for the benefit of Ignatius Pike of Saint-Mary's County.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 587. A Private Act. |
1815.
CHAP. 104.
Passed Jan. 18, 1816. |
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CHAP. CV.
An Act to lay out and open a Road near Hancock Town in Washington
County. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 588. |
Passed Jan. 18, 1816. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Washington county be and they are hereby authorised
and directed, to appoint three commissioners, and they, or
a majority of them, are authorised and directed to survey and lay
off a road, not exceeding thirty-three feet in width, beginning at
the old public road at the farm of Nicholas Parrott, and to pass
his dwelling house, then along the division line between his land
and William Hope's, thence through the farm of Josias Carter,
continuing on the north side of the round hill to Jacob Leopard's
mill, from thence as near the river Potomac as practicable, until it
intersects the old public road at or near William Redburn's, and
when surveyed and laid out to return a plot thereof to the clerk's
office of said county to be there filed and recorded. |
Commissioners to
be appointed to
survey and lay off
a road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of said county,
when a plot of the road as aforesaid shall be returned by the commissioners
aforesaid, is hereby empowered, at the next court thereafter,
to appoint an overseer or overseers to clear and open said
road, and to levy such sum of money as shall be considered reasonable
for the purpose of clearing and opening said road; and the
said road, when opened and cleared, shall be deemed a public road,
and shall be kept in repair in the same manner as other public
roads in said county are. |
Overseers may be
appointed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
shall be entitled
to receive as a compensation the sum of two dollars for every
day they shall attend for the discharge of the duties required of
them by this act, and the said overseer or overseers shall receive
the same compensation which the overseers of public roads respectively
receive, which compensation shall be levied, collected and
paid, in the same manner that other county charges are levied,
collected and paid. |
Commissioners
compensation. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
when
they lay out said road, shall assess the damages, taking into consideration
the advantages or disadvantages sustained by the individuals
over whose lands the said road may be laid out, and to return
such assessment to the levy court, to be levied, collected and
paid, as other county charges are levied, collected and paid. |
Damages to be assessed. |
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CHAP. CVI.
An Act for the benefit of Philip Spalding of Prince-George's County.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 589. A Private Act. |
Passed Jan. 18, 1816. |
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CHAP. CVII.
An Act to provide for the erection of a new Court House in Hager's
Town,
in Washington County. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 590.
A Supplement, 1816, ch. 107. See 1818, ch. 28. |
Passed Jan. 18, 1816. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John Blackford, Samuel Ringgold, William Gabby, John Bowles |
Lot to be purchased. |
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