| 1815.
CHAP. 162.
Corporations may
become stockholders. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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. |
If road is not completed
in ten years
rights to revert to
state. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if said company
do not proceed
to carry on said work within three years after the passage
of this act, or shall not within ten years thereafter complete 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 each of the levy
courts of
Montgomery and Anne-Arundel counties 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
erected within one
mile of any town. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no toll-gate shall
be erected
within one mile of any town or village or at the intersection of the
Baltimore and Frederick town turnpike road. |
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Passed Jan. 26, 1816. |
CHAP. CLXIII.
A Further Supplement to the act (a,) entitled,
An act respecting the
equity jurisdiction of the County Courts. Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 21.
(a) 1701, ch. 78. See 1814, ch. 94. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS some doubts are entertained whether the
original act,
and the supplements thereto, to which this is an additional supplement,
confer on the county courts a concurrent jurisdiction within
their respective districts, in all cases with the court of chancery
within this state; therefore, |
| Jurisdiction. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the several county courts of this state, by virtue of the said original
act, and the supplements thereto, are to all intents and purposes
invested with all and singular the powers authorities and
jurisdictions, that can or may be exercised by the chancellor of
this state, whether the same be derived from the common law, or
in virtue of any statute or act of assembly heretofore passed. |
May decree in case
of bill to complete
specific performance
of a contract,
and decree according
to equity. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case any bill
to complete the
specific performance of any contract shall be filled in any county
court of a county in which the respondent or respondents do reside,
although the specific performance is to be executed in some
other place, the said court are hereby authorised to hold plea thereof,
and to decree according to the equity of the case, and the said
decree shall have the same force and effect as a decree of the chancellor
would have had, and be enforced in the same manner, provided
that in case of a decree for the specific performance of a contract
to convey real property lying in a different county, an office
copy of such decree shall be first filed with the clerk of the county
where such real estate may lie and be recorded. |
Respondents residing
in different
counties, complainant
may elect
in which to file his
bill. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when two or more
respondents
reside in different counties, the complainant or complainants may
elect in which county to file his bill, and in such case a duplicate
subpœna or subpœnas shall issue to such county or counties wherein
such respondent or respondents may reside, and the same proceedings
may be had and enforced to compel the appearance of the |
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