| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
purposes, as an extension, and part of, the Falls turnpike road,
and when made, shall be vested in the president, managers and
company, of the Falls turnpike road. |
1816.
CHAP. 115. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said president,
managers
and company, of the Falls turnpike road, shall not, within ten
years from the passing of this act, open, grade and shape, the road
herein contemplated, the same, so far as shall be completed, shall
become the property of the state. |
If road is not opened
within ten years
to be the property
of the state. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That an act passed on
the twenty-fourth
day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and eight*, entitled, An act for opening a certain road in Baltimore
county therein mentioned, and the several supplements thereto (a),
shall be and hereby are repealed.
(a) Nov. 1809, ch. 161; 1810, ch. 145; and Nov. 1812, ch. 52. |
Acts repealed.
* Ch. 94. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Baltimore
county shall be, and hereby are authorised and required, forthwith
to appoint three suitable persons in the said county, to be commissioners,
whose duty it shall be to lay out, locate and mark, a road
from Davis's tavern, in the said county into the extension of the
Falls turnpike road authorised by this act to be made, and also a
road from the old county road, at or near where it is intersected
by the road leading from Scott's mill to Baltimore city, into the
said extension, or either of them, each or either of which to be
laid out of the width of thirty feet, in the best and most convenient
direction, to be opened and made at the expense of the said county
as other county roads are usually made, and to be kept up as county
roads for ever. |
Levy court authorised
to lay out
certain roads. |
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CHAP. CXVI.
An Act authorising certain Commissioners therein named to survey
and lay out a Road in Cecil County, and for other purposes
therein
mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 257. |
Passed Jan. 16, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
George Davidson, Dr. Robert H. Archer, and William W. Ramsay,
be and are hereby appointed commissioners for the purposes
of this act, and that they, or any two of them, are hereby authorised
and required to survey and lay out a road not exceeding
thirty-three feet wide, beginning at a certain point to be fixed on by
said commissioners, or any two of them, near the mill-race of the
late George Gale, and on the public road leading from the Brick
Meeting-House by Richard Reynold's mill to the lower ferry on
Susquehanna river, and running thence in the most convenient course
till it intersects the public road leading from the lower ferry to
Battle Swamp, just below the mouth of a run called Bateman's
Fresh. |
Commissioners
appointed to lay
out a road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the said
commissioners, or any two of them, to cause a plot and certificate
of said road to be made, as soon as can be conveniently done, and
to make a return thereof to the levy court of Cecil county. |
Plot to be made
out. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all that per of
the present public
road leading from the point where the road hereby authorised and
directed to be located shall commence, to its intersection with the
road leading from the lower ferry to Elkton, be, and the same is
hereby declared to be, private property, an the owner or owners |
A road to be shut
up. |
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