| 1801.
CHAP. 63.
Special bail may
be awarded in actions
founded on
this act. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
43. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all actions
founded on this
act against any person or persons about to depart the state, it shall
and may be lawful for the court in which such action shall be commenced,
upon affidavit of the plaintiff, or other evidence of the fact,
and his cause of action given to the satisfaction of the court, to award
special bail against any defendant in such action, and for default of
such bail to commit such defendant until he shall put in such special
bail. |
Court may purchase
land for
erecting warehouses. |
44. AND, whereas some of the warehouses rented
and used under
former laws for the inspection of tobacco may have been employed
and used by the owners thereof to other purposes, and they may
be now unwilling to rent them for the use of the public: And
whereas
it may be necessary to erect new warehouses at some of the places
to be appointed in virtue of this law; BE IT ENACTED, That
the justices of the levy court, in all such cases, shall and they are
hereby authorised and required to agree for and purchase a quantity
of land, not exceeding two acres, the most convenient and proper
for the erection of warehouses; and in case the owner or owners
of such land shall refuse to make sale of so much of the said land
as the said justices shall think necessary for the purposes by this
act directed, at a reasonable price, or be under any disability of
making sale thereof, then the said justices shall be, and they are by
virtue of this act, authorised and required to issue their warrant to
the sheriff of such county, requiring and commanding him to summon
and return a jury of good and lawful men of his county, not
less than twelve, inhabitants within such county, and not interested
in, or related to the owner of, such land, to be and appear before
the said justices on the premises, upon a certain day to be by them
limited and appointed in such warrant, which jury, upon their oath,
to be by any one of the said justices to the said jurors administered,
shall inquire who is or are the owner or owners of the said land,
what is the value thereof, and what damages such owner or owners
shall sustain; and the sum of money the said jurors shall adjudge
to the owner or owners of such land shall be assessed by the justices
of such county at the time of the making their next county assessment,
and shall be collected by the sheriff or collector of such
county in the same manner as the county assessment, and the sheriff
or collector shall tender or pay the same to the owner or owners
of such land; and the said justices shall, immediately after such
valuation by the jury, cause such land to be surveyed and laid out
by the surveyor of such county, with good and sufficient boundaries,
and a certificate thereof to be returned and recorded in the
county records; and the justices of the said county, and their successors,
shall be and are hereby vested with an estate in fee-simple
in the said land, for the use of such county for ever; and the said
justices, or any two of them, shall and they are hereby authorised
and required to treat and agree with workmen to build and finish
good, necessary and convenient warehouses on such land, and to
purchase all necessaries and conveniencies to carry this act into
execution, and the expenses for the same shall be assessed and collected
on and from the inhabitants of such county in the same manner
as the county assessment, and shall be paid by the sheriff or
collector to the order of the said justices, or any three of them. |
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