| 1816.
CHAP. 115. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
seals, directed to the sheriff of Baltimore county, commanding
him to summon twelve disinterested men, qualified by law to serve
as jurors in the county court, to meet upon the premises at a certain
day, of which six days notice at least shall be given to the
party or parties interested, his or their guardian; and the said jurors,
when so met, and having each taken an oath before some
justice of the peace, that he will without favour, affection, prejudice,
or partiality, assess the damages to be sustained by the person
or persons through whose land the said road is about to pass,
by reason of opening the aforesaid road through his, her, or their
lands, shall thereupon proceed to value and assess the damages
accordingly, taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages,
if any; and such inquisition and valuation shall be final
and conclusive between the parties respectively, and shall be returned
by the jurors aforesaid to the justices of the peace by whom
the aforesaid warrant was issued; and the damages so assessed shall
be paid, or tendered by the said president, managers and company,
to the person or persons, his, her, or their guardian, in whose favour
the same shall be assessed, before they shall proceed to open
the said road through the said land. |
Road to be sixty
feet wide.
Proviso. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said road shall
be laid off,
opened, and made sixty feet wide, of which twenty feet shall be of
earth or gravel, or stone, or such other substance as will make a
firm road, and so nearly level in its progress as that it shall in no
place rise or fall more than will form an angle of four degrees,
with an horizontal line; and the said company may erect bridges
over any or all of the streams that the said road may pass, and
may erect gates on the said road to collect the tolls; and whenever
five miles of the sid road shall be completed, the sid company
shall be entitled to receive such tolls thereon as are granted in
the act to which this is a supplement; Provided, that no tolls shall
be demanded from any person or persons passing or repassing from
one part of a farm to another, whereon he, she or they, may reside. |
In certain case
road may be ditched. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president,
managers and
company, in case they find it impracticable at first to make the said
road of stone or gravel, that then they shall have power and authority
to cause such parts of said road as they may think proper, to be
cleared and opened of the width aforesaid, and levelled to the
width of eighteen feet, and ditched on the sides, so as to carry off
the water, and made rounding in the middle with gravel or earth;
and when the said road is so completed, or any five miles thereof
from either end progressively, it shall and may be lawful for the
said president, managers and company, to erect toll-gates, and demand
and receive one half of the tolls thereon that are granted in
the act to which this is a supplement, being first licensed by the
governor in the manner prescribed in the original act aforesaid;
and in case said road should become out of repair, the gates shall
be liable to be opened, and the travellers to pass free and without
paying toll, till such part or parts of the sid road be repaired. |
To be considered
part of the Falls
Turnpike. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and every the
sections and
provisions of the act to which this is a further supplement, relative
to the road from the cross roads, near to Richard Caton's limekiln,
to the city of Baltimore, shall extend and be applied to the road
authorised by this act, which shall be considered, to all intents and |
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