| 1815.
CHAP. 150. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
majority of them, may judge most proper to carry off the water
from the said branch, and reduce the same to dry land; and the
power and authority of said directors as to be chosen shall continue
and be in force until the next annual election of directors. |
Costs to be paid by
proprietors. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the cost, charges
and expenses,
of cutting and opening said ditch or drain, shall be paid by the
respective proprietors of the same, each paying for the cutting and
opening the said drain or ditch through his own land, except where
it shall so happen that two or more of the said proprietors hold
parts of the said branch through which the said ditch or drain
shall be made, adjoining each other, part on one side thereof and
part on the other, in which case each shall pay in proportion to the
part he shall or may hold. |
Directors authorised
to cut and complete
drain.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said directors,
or any two of
them, shall have full power and authority at any time thereafter,
to cut, open and complete, the said drain or ditch, and also from
time to time to repair, cleanse and keep open, and in good order,
the said ditch or drain so to be opened and cut in virtue of this
act, at the expense of the said proprietors, in the same proportion
that the expenses of cutting and opening the said ditch or drain
are to be paid; and for the purpose of cutting and opening the said
ditch or drain, in the first instance, and of repairing and cleansing
the same when cut and opened, the said directors, or any two of
them, are hereby authorised to apportion what they may conceive
the expense thereof will amount to, and demand and receive such
proportions respectively from the said proprietors, before or at
any time after the commencement of the said work, or after the
same is finished; Provided always, that inasmuch as it may be inconvenient
for some of the proprietors through whose lands said
ditch or drain shall pass, to satisfy and answer all the expenses of
cutting and opening said ditch or drain at one time, the said directors,
or any two of them, may make an estimate of the expense of
cutting the said ditch or drain, through that part of the branch in
which the said ditch or drain shall pass, and apportion the same as
above directed, and that the same be paid by the proprietors respectively
of that particular part of the said branch, unto the said
directors, at three annual payments, one third of which to be discharged
on or before the first Monday of April eighteen hundred
and seventeen, one third on or before the first Monday of April
eighteen hundred and eighteen, and the remaining third on or before
the first Monday of April eighteen hundred and nineteen. |
| Obstructions. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the proprietors
of said branch,
or any of them, shall not at any time after the said ditch or drain
is cut and opened, permit or put fences or other obstructions across
or in the same; and if any of the said proprietors shall at any time
make watering holes in the said ditch or drain, or run fences
across, or otherwise obstruct the same, the said directors, or a majority
of them, may remove the nuisance, and fine the offender a
sum not exceeding two dollars for any one offence, to be recovered as
hereafter directed, and applied to defray the general expenses of
cleansing the said ditch or drain. |
| Delinquents. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the said
proprietors, or
any of them, shall not pay to the said directors, his, her or their
respective proportion of any sum of money fixed and apportioned |
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