| 1815.
CHAP. 206.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
benefitted thereby, shall respectively contribute and pay towards
compensating the said corporation, or any person or persons
injured, or to be injured by extending and wharfing out the said lots,
and the names of the person or persons so to contribute, and the sums
of money respectively which they shall pay, and when, and to whom
such payment shall respectively be made, shall be returned by the said
sheriff, under the hands and seals of the said freeholders, to the
register of the said city, to be filed and kept in his office; and the
person or persons found as aforesaid to be so benefitted shall respectively
pay the several sums so assessed on him, her or them, to
the person or persons to whom such sums shall be so directed to be
paid, or to the said corporation, with interest from the time so fixed
for payment, and in default of such payment an action or actions
may be had and maintained in Baltimore county court by the parties
so entitled respectively to payment, against the person or persons
so respectively appointed to pay for the recovery of all such
sum or sums of money respectively; which said jury shall be
authorised and required to determine whether the said corporation
was not benefitted, and to what amount, in the same manner as
the said five persons might have done, and that the said mayor and
city council shall pay the said sum to the said Christopher Hughes,
his executors, administrators or assigns, in the same manner as if
the same had been determined by the said arbitrators; Provided,
that before the sheriff aforesaid shall proceed to take the inquisition
aforesaid, he shall give notice ten days successively in two
public newspapers of the city of Baltimore, of the time and place of
meeting to take such inquisition. |
Sums assessed to
be a lien on property
benefitted. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sum or sums
of money so to
be awarded against or assessed on each individual benefitted as
aforesaid, shall be a lien on, and shall bind the property so made
by extending or wharfing out said lots, and that in any action on
such award or assessment, copies of the aforesaid award, or of the
sheriff's return on such inquisition as is aforesaid respectively certified
by the register aforesaid, under the seal of the said corporation,
shall be evidence. |
| Repeal. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any thing contained
in any law
repugnant to, or inconsistent with, the provisions of this law, be
and the same is hereby repealed. |
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Passed Jan. 29, 1816.
* 1802, ch. 25. |
CHAP. CCVII.
A Further Additional Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act for
the
regulation and improvement of Denton, in Caroline County.
Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 95. |
Persons refusing
to pay taxes, how
to be collected. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, if any person or persons
shall refuse or neglect to pay the taxes on their real property respectively
charged against them by virtue of the act to which this
is a supplement, it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners
of the village of Denton, to collect the same in the same manner
that county taxes are collected; Provided always, that the said
commissioners
cause to be delivered to the several persons charged with
taxes as aforesaid, an account of the same, fully stated, if such
persons reside in the aforesaid village, or within three miles thereof,
three months before they shall proceed to collect the same as |
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