| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
Jones's Falls, as are or may be bounded by public wharves or
streets. |
1816.
CHAP. 138/ |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor and city
council of
Baltimore be, and they are hereby authorised, to reduce the width
of Jones's Falls from Baltimore-street, southwardly, (if they shall
deem it useful so to do) provided that it shall not in any place be
made narrower than the space between the abutments of the stone
bridges over such part of the said falls. |
Width of Jones's
Falls may be reduced. |
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CHAP. CXXIX.
An Act relating to the trial of causes in Baltimore County Court.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 278. |
Passed Jan. 28, 1817. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the judges of Baltimore county court be and they are hereby authorised
and required, to assign and apportion such part of each
term of the said court, as shall be found necessary, for the trial
of
causes and hearing of appeals, in which the defendants shall have
been residents of the county, without the limits of the city or precincts,
at the time of the institution of the suit, or rendition of the
judgment appealed from; and to facilitate such apportionment, it
shall be the duty of the plaintiffs, or their council, in all suits
hereafter instituted, before the issuing of the writ, and of the appellant
before his appeal shall be filed, to make known to the clerk
the fact, if it be so, of the defendants residence in the county out
of the city or precincts; and the jurors required to attend said
court, during the time apportioned as before directed, shall be
summoned from the county without the limits of the city or precincts,
and for the residue of the term from the city or precincts.
See 1808, ch. 14, and June 1809, ch. 5. |
Court to assign
part of each term
for trial of causes
where defendants
reside out of the
city, &c. |
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CHAP. CXL.
An Act to lay out and make public a Road in Harford County.
Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 279. |
Passed Jan. 28, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John Slade, Abel Alderson, and John Clendinen, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners to review the old private road
leading from the black horse tavern, in Harford county, to the road
leading from the black horse to William Nelson's mill at the east
end of William Amos's orchard; and if the said commissioners, or
a majority of them are of opinion that public convenience require
that the said road be made a public one, they are hereby authorised
to lay out, alter, straighten and amend the same, as they in
their judgment shall think proper, not exceeding thirty feet in
width, and to survey, mark and bound the same, and return a correct
plot thereof, with a certificate of the courses and distances, to
the clerk of Harford county court, to be by him recorded; Provided,
that the said road shall not be made to pass through the buildings,
gardens or orchards, of any person or persons, without the consent
of the owner or owners thereof. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Harford county
be, and they are hereby directed, upon the plot of such road being
returned to the clerk's office of said county, to levy such sum
of money as they in their discretion shall deem necessary, for
straightening, opening, and making conveniently passable, the |
Levy authorised
for opening road. |
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