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CHAP. 116.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
of the land through which the same runs, are hereby authorised
and empowered to close and stop up the same, and the said land,
in the several and respective portions, according to their several
metes and bounds, to occupy and use, as fully and amply as if the
same had never been declared to be a public road; Provided always,
that Levin Gale and Henry Chamberlaine, their heirs, executors
or assigns, shall, at their own proper costs and charges,
make the road, to be located under the provisions of this act, good
and passable, and have a certificate of its being so made, signed
by the commissioners aforesaid, or any two of them, returned to
the levy court of said county, before they shall stop the road hereby
authorised to be shut up. |
Road declared
public. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the said road
is made good
and passable, and a certificate of that fact returned as aforesaid,
then the same shall be, and is hereby declared to be, a public highway,
and shall be kept in repair as the other public roads in Cecil
county are kept in repair. |
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Passed Jan. 13, 1817. |
CHAP. CXVII.
An Act for the relief of Levi Dukes, of Caroline County. Lib.
TH.
No. 5, fol. 258. A Private Act. |
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Passed Jan. 11, 1817. |
CHAP. CXVIII.
An Act for the relief of James P. Heath, of the City of Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 259. |
Benefit of insolvent
laws extended
to him.
* Ch. 110. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the judges of Baltimore county court, be and they are hereby authorised
and directed, to extend to James P. Heath, of the city of
Baltimore, the benefit of the act of assembly, passed at November
session, eighteen hundred and five*, entitled, An act for the relief
of sundry insolvent debtors, and the several supplements thereto,
without requiring the said James P. Heath to produce the assent
in writing of two thirds in amount of his creditors, as is prescribed
by the provisions of the said act, and supplements thereto. |
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Passed Jan. 15, 1817. |
CHAP. CXIX.
An Act to provide for the Recording of certain Deeds and other Papers.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 259. |
Deeds, &c. in certain
cases to be
recorded. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
wherever the clerk of any county court in this state hath died,
or shall hereafter die, leaving in his office any deed or deeds, or
other paper or papers, other than judgments or proceedings in
court, and which are required by law to be recorded, and have
not been entered in the record books as required by law in the
life-time of the clerk who received the same, it shall be the duty
of the clerk of such county, for the time being, to record the same,
as of the day on which the said deeds or other papers shall appear
by indorsement thereon to have been received in the clerk's office
to be recorded; and the clerk who shall so record the same shall
affix thereto the name of the clerk who received the same, and
also his own name, and the said deeds, and other papers, when so
recorded, shall be of the same force and effect as if the same had
been duly recorded in the record books on the day on which they
were so received. |
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