| 1816.
CHAP. 123. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Duvall, of Elisha, and Henry Dodson, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners, who, or a majority of whom, shall on or
before the first day of July next, meet at the Long Old Fields in
said county, and having so met, the said commissioners, or a majority
of them, shall have power and authority to direct the surveyor
of said county, or any other person they may think proper
to appoint, there to survey, lay out and locate, a town, to be called
Middle-Town; to make out an exact plot thereof, and ascertain
and limit the extent of the lots, streets, and lanes thereof, in the
manner to be directed by the said commissioners; and the said lots,
when so laid out, shall be numbered by the commissioners one,
two, three, and so on, for distinguishing each lot from the other;
and they shall cause the said streets and lanes to be named by certain
names; and the said commissioners, or a majority of them,
shall have power to adjourn from time to time, till the duties imposed
by this act are fully performed. |
Plot thereof to be
recorded |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said lots,
when they are surveyed
and laid out by the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority
of them, shall be and are hereby erected into a town, to be called
and know by the name of Middle-Town; and the sid commissioners,
or a majority of them, are hereby directed to return a
correct certificate and plot of the said lots to the clerk of Prince-George's
county court, who is hereby required to record the same
among the land records of said county, and keep the original certificate
and plot in his office, and a certified copy of the original
or record, or any part thereof, shall be conclusive evidence as to
the bounds, and lines of the said town, and the lots thereof. |
Boundary stones
to be fixed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the proprietors
of the lots, or any part of a lot in the said town, to provide
boundary stones, and to have them marked and set up at the
termination of the line or lines of their respective lots, in the presence
of the said commissioners, or a majority of them, which
shall thereafter be deemed and taken to be the true bounds of the
said lots, or any of them. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the commissioners
shall
die, refuse, neglect, or be rendered incapable to act, the remaining
commissioner or commissioners may appoint some other person or
persons in the place or places of the person or persons who shall
so die, refuse, neglect, or be incapable to act. |
Expenses to be
paid by owners of
gold. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all expenses incurred
in the execution
of this act shall be paid by the proprietors in the proportions
to the number of lots they may severally own or possess. |
| Oath. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before any commissioner
or surveyor
shall proceed to the execution of the duties required of them
by this act, he shall take an oath, or affirmation, as the case may
be, before some justice of the peace for the county aforesaid, that
he will well and truly discharge the duties enjoined upon him by
this act, according to the best of his judgment, without favour, affection
or partiality. |
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Passed Jan. 27, 1817. |
CHAP. CXXIV.
An Act to repeal the Act, entitled, An act to lay out and make public
a Road
in Cecil County. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 264. |
| Acts repealed. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the act, entitled, An act to lay out and make public a road in Cecil |
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