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CHAP. 109.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
to appoint commissioners to survey and lay out a road in said
county, provided they in their judgment may deem the same necessary,
beginning at the road leading from the Brick Meeting-house
on the lower ferry, on John McGready's land, to run thence by
John McGready's old saw mill on the line between the said McGready
and Robert Evans, Esquire, until it intersects the line between
the said McGready and William Cameron, and thence on said line
until it intersects the line between William Cameron and the Messieurs
Cather's, and thence on said line until it intersects between
William Cameron and Mrs. Ritpartre, and thence on the said line
until it intersects John Cord's land, and thence in a straight direction
until it joins the road leading from the Brick Meeting-house
to Charles-town, at or near a new school-house; and the said levy
court shall have full power and authority to appoint an overseer to
open and clear the same agreeably to the plot and certificate, which
said commissioners may return to the said court, and to levy and
assess such sums of money as they may deem necessary for defraying
the expense attending the same; and the said road, when so
completed as aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken to be a public
road, and kept in repair as other public roads in said county; Provided,
that the said road shall not pass through the yard, garden or
orchard, of any person or persons, without the consent of the owner
or owners thereof. |
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Passed Jan. 23, 1817. |
CHAP. CX.
An act to lay out and open a Road in Cecil County. Lib.
TH. No.
5, fol. 249.
A Supplement, 1817, ch. 26. |
Commissioners to
be appointed to
lay out road.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Cecil county, be and they, or a majority of them,
are hereby authorised, to appoint three commissioners to survey
and lay out a road in Cecil county, not exceeding thirty feet in
width, in the following direction: Beginning at a lane on the land
of David Patten, where it intersects the road leading from Port
Deposit to the brick meeting-house, in said county, thence down
said lane to the end thereof, thence through the lands of James
Cameron and John McGready, along the woods of said McGready,
ad across the corner of one of his fields, to the line between the
lands of Robert Evans and William Cameron, thence along said
line to the line between the lands of the said William Cameron and
Abraham Williams, thence long the said line to the land of Peter
Abraham's, thence through said land, near a large chesnut tree in
a corner of said Peter Abraham's orchard, until it comes to the
road from Miller's mill to Charles-town, near to where a set of
bars now stand on the land of Joseph Harlan, now in the occupation
of Lewis Harlan, with as little injury to the said lands as possible;
Provided, that said road shall not pass through the yards,
gardens, buildings or orchards, of any person, without the consent
of the owner or owners thereof. |
Plot to be made
and returned. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall cause
to be made out a plot and certificate of said road, and return the
same, as soon as convenient, to the levy court of said county,
whereupon the said court, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised
and empowered, upon being convinced that the said road. |
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