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CHAP. 105. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
road, composed of stone or gravel, and erect and keep up
bridges over the streams crossing the same, and when the said road
and bridges shall be perfected said company shall be entitled to receive
full toll for one gate. |
Exemptions from
toll/ |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no toll be demanded
or taken
from any person passing or repassing to or from any public worship
or funeral, or on days of training from militia-men, or from voters
on days of election, attending the polls, going to and returning
from the same. |
Privileges, rights,
&c. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said company shall
be and are
hereby invested and clothed with all the privileges, rights and
immunities, and advantages, which are held and possessed by the
turnpike company incorporated by an act passed at November
session, eighteen hundred and twelve*, entitled, An act to incorporate
a company to make a turnpike road from the District of Columbia
to the city of Baltimore, to be governed by the same regulations
as are therein prescribed, and entitled to the same tolls, and
every clause and provision in said act, relative to the road therein
proposed to be made, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent
with this act. |
Corporations may
become stockholders. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
any corporation or body politic in the United States to become stockholders
in the said company. |
Proceedings commenced
within
three years, rights
to revert to state. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said company
do not proceed
to carry on the 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 and franchises, by this act granted to
the said company. |
| Damages to be ascertained. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the county courts
of Washington
county 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
of stone, gravel, or other materials, for the use of the sid road, in
cases where the parties cannot agree, which estimate shall be final
in determining such damages. |
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Passed Jan. 22, 1817. |
CHAP. CVI.
An Act to lay out and make public a Road in Cecil County.
Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol. 246. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
road.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
James Cameron, Thomas White, and Edward McVay, be and they
are hereby appointed commissioners to survey and lay out a road
in Cecil county, beginning at the public road near Evan's farm,
thence in a straight direction till it intersects the great road leading
from Charles-town to the Rising Sun, at or near a school-house
between Robert Cameron's and John Cord's, not exceeding thirty
feet in width; Provided, that the said road shall not pass through
the buildings, yards, gardens or orchards, of any person, without
the consent of the owner or owners thereof. |
Plot thereof to be
made. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall cause
a plot and certificate of the said road, when so surveyed and laid
out, to be made and returned to the levy court of Cecil county, at
their next sitting thereafter, whereupon of shall be their duty to
levy upon the assessable property of said county, a sum of money, |
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