| 1815.
CHAP. 144.
Annual elections. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said managers
and directors
be chosen annually from among the stockholders, who may be re-elected
as often as the stockholders shall think proper, and to hold
their seats until superseded by the election of other managers and
directors. |
|
_____ |
Passed Jan. 24, 1816. |
CHAP. CXLV.
An Act to authorise the Sale of certain Real Estate held by Joseph
B.
McKean, in trust for the Children of Andrew Buchanan,
deceased.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 653. A Private
Act. |
|
_____ |
Passed Jan. 24, 1816. |
CHAP. CXLVI.
An Act to lay out and open a Road therein mentioned in Cecil County.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 654. A Private Act. |
Commissioners
may be appointed
to lay out and
open a road.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court of Cecil county be, and they are
hereby authorised, upon the application of a number of the inhabitants
of said county, if the said court upon consideration of all
circumstances shall be of opinion that such a road would be of
public utility, to appoint five commissioners to survey, lay out and
open, a road in Cecil county, from the fishery of Mary McLeary
on the river Susquehanna, in as straight a direction as the nature
of the ground will admit of, to the public road leading from Port
Deposit to Wallace's mill, and with as little injury to the individuals
over whose land the same may pass as may comport with the
public convenience; Provided, the said road shall not be laid out
through the garden, yard, meadow or orchard, of any person or
persons without his, her or their consent in writing first had and
obtained; and a plot of said road, when surveyed, confirmed and
laid out, together with a certificate of the courses of the same,
shall be returned to the clerk's office of Cecil county, there to be
recorded. |
| Levy authorised. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the plot of
said road shall
have been confirmed and recorded as aforesaid, it shall and may
be lawful for the levy court upon the assessable property in
said county, a sum of money such as they shall deem necessary,
under all circumstances, and to appoint an overseer to open and
clear said road, agreeably to the plot and certificate aforesaid,
who shall give bond in like manner as other overseers of public
roads are directed to give bond, and shall have the same allowance;
and the said road, when opened and cleared as aforesaid, shall
be and the same is hereby declared to be, for ever thereafter, a public
road, and shall be kept in repair as other public roads in said
county. |
Commissioners
compensation. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
respectively,
when named by the levy court aforesaid, shall be entitled
to receive two dollars for every day they shall severally attend
to discharge the duties required by this act, which is hereby
directed to be levied, collected and paid, as other county charges
are levied, collected and paid. |
| Damages to be ascertained. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall value and ascertain the damages that may be
sustained by each and every of the persons through on or whose
lands the said road may pass, (petitioners to the general assembly |
|
 |
