| 1816.
CHAP. 84. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
destroyed, and the business of his office retarded and disturbed;
therefore, |
| A house to be provided. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Washington county be, and they are hereby authorised
and directed, forthwith to provide a suitable house in
Hager's-town for the reception of the records of the county, and
for the use of the clerk of the county, until the completion of the
new court-house. |
Expenses to be
paid by levy court. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the rent and other
expenses accruing
upon the removal of said office, shall be paid and defrayed
by the levy court of said county, out of any unappropriated funds,
or by a levy upon the taxable property of the county. |
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Passed Jan. 16, 1817. |
CHAP. LXXXV.
A Further Additional Supplement to the act (a), entitled,
An Act relating
to the Public Roads in this State, and to repeal the
Act of
Assembly therein mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 5,
fol. 225.
(a) 1794, ch. 52.—See 1804, ch. 9. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that in Allegany
county the present law relating to the public roads have
been found inconvenient and inadequate to the purposes for which
they were intended; therefore, |
Levy authorised
for keeping roads
in repair. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court of Allegany county, at their annual
meeting for the purpose of levying the public assessment, shall
levy, by equal assessment on the assessable property within said
county, a sum of money not exceeding fifty cents on every hundred
dollars of assessable property, to be collected as other county
charges are, and paid to the justices of the levy court, or their
order, and shall be applied towards straightening, amending, and
keeping in repair, the public roads, as directed by the act to which
this is an additional supplement. |
| Duty of supervisors. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the supervisors,
and they are hereby required, before they begin to straighten,
amend or repair, any public road within their respective districts,
to give public notice, by advertisement to be set up at the
most public places in their district, in order that the inhabitants
may have an opportunity of labouring upon the said public roads;
and it shall be the duty of the several supervisors, in hiring labourers
to keep in repair the public roads, to give a preference to
taxables, until they shall have laboured to the probable amount of
their road tax. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any supervisor
who shall be appointed
by virtue of the act to which this is an additional supplement,
shall refuse to act, or be disqualified, or die, it shall and
may be lawful for any two justices of the peace of said county to
supply such vacancy so happening, by appointing another suitable
person, who shall give bond to the said justices, in the same manner,
and under the same penalty, as if such supervisor had been
appointed by the levy court of said county; and the sid justices
shall return the bond so taken to the clerk of the county, to be recorded,
and shall certify such appointment, under their hands,
to the clerk of the county court, who shall receive the same, and
shall forthwith issue a warrant to the person so appointed, and deliver
the same to the sheriff, to be delivered to the party, in the |
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