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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
shall annually be allowed, in the county assessment, a sum not exceeding
thirty dollars. |
1801.
CHAP. 63. |
33. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court,
and inspectors of each respective county, shall meet at the place
where their respective county courts are held, on the first Monday
in February next, and on the first Monday in February annually
thereafter, at which meeting it shall be determined, by a majority
of the justices of the levy court then present, upon the best information
they can procure, what buildings, additions or repairs, and
wharfs, required by this act, are wanting at each respective warehouse;
and the said levy court shall appoint two justices of the peace,
not being a proprietor or proprietors of such warehouse, to agree and
contract for such buildings, additions, repairs and wharfs, as shall be
determined to be wanting as aforesaid, or for the purchase of any
warehouse; and the said two justices shall, within ten days after
such appointment, give notice to the proprietor or proprietors of
each warehouse concerning which they are appointed to contract,
or his or their agent, to meet them at some convenient place, by
them in such notice to be appointed, at a time not exceeding ten
days from the date of such notice, at which meeting the said two
justices shall inform the said proprietor or proprietors, or his or
their agent, what is required of him or them, according to the determination
of the justices aforesaid; and if the said proprietor or
proprietors will not immediately enter into bond to the state, in
such penalty as the said two justices shall think proper, not exceeding
one thousand dollars, to do what is required as aforesaid within
six months after the date of such bond at farthest, or if after
such bond given, such proprietor or proprietors shall not complete
every thing therein specified, according to the tenor thereof, in
either case the said two justices shall forthwith agree with some
other person for doing what is determined as aforesaid to be necessary,
or may be unfinished as aforesaid, and shall take a bond for
performance of such their agreement; and in case one of the two
justices aforesaid should die, or be removed, then the levy
court shall appoint two other justices, who shall have the powers
aforesaid; and if any warehouse shall be suffered by the proprietor to
be out of repair for the space of six weeks, after having notice given
him by the justices appointed to attend such warehouse that such repairs
are wanting, every such proprietor shall forfeit and pay a sum
not exceeding sixty dollars, and shall also be liable to an action of the
party grieved for damages sustained by occasion of such warehouse
being out of repair; and it shall be the duty of the inspector or inspectors
of the respective warehouses to inform against any proprietor
suffering the warehouse to be out of repair as aforesaid; and
any inspector, knowing the warehouse of which he is an inspector
to be out of repair as aforesaid, and not informing some judge or
justice, or grand jury, of the same, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding
sixty dollars. |
Proceedings relative
to buildings,
repairs, &c. wanting
at warehouses. |
34. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the bond taken
by the justices
aforesaid shall be lodged by them, within twenty days thereafter,
with the clerk fo their respective counties, to be by him safely
kept. |
Bond to be lodged
with clerk. |
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