| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
the limits and extent of that part of said street so opened and extended,
to the clerk of Baltimore county court, who shall receive
and file the same in his office. |
1816.
CHAP. 143. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a
majority of them, shall, some day between the first and twentieth
day of April next, first giving ten days notice in two or more
newspapers printed in the city of Baltimore of their appointment,
as also of the time and place of meeting, which shall be on the premises,
and shall then and there proceed to the duties herein after
enjoined; but before they proceed, they shall take an oath, or affirmation,
as the case may be, that they will faithfully and impartially
assess and value what damages will be sustained by opening
and extending the said street, taking into consideration all advantages
and disadvantages; they shall then proceed to assess and
value what damages will be sustained by any person or persons
whomsoever by opening and extending said street, and shall also
declare what sum of money each individual benefitted thereby shall
pay towards compensating the person or persons injured by opening
and extending said street; and the names of the person or persons,
and the sums of money which they shall respectively be obliged
to pay, shall be returned, under their hands and seals, to the
clerk aforesaid, to be filed and kept in his office; and the person
or
persons benefitted by opening of said street, and assessed as aforesaid,
shall respectively pay the sum or sums so charged and assessed
to him, her or them. |
Duties of commissioners. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums of money
so assessed
and charged to each individual benefitted by opening and extending
the said street, shall be a lien upon all the property so benefitted
to the full amount thereof. |
Money assessed to
be a lien on property. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said street
shall not be opened
or extended through the property of any individual injured
thereby until the damages by him, her or them, sustained and assessed
as before provided, shall be paid, or secured to be paid, to
his, her or their satisfaction. |
Street not to be extended
until damages
are paid. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk to the
street commissioners
of the western precincts aforesaid, shall have power and
authority to collect by distress, or otherwise, from all persons
chargeable therewith, their respective proportions of the damage
for opening and extending the said street, and the said money or
monies when received, pay over to the person or persons entitled
to receive the same, and for his services herein enjoined shall receive
six per centum on the amount collected. |
Damages to be collected. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
and the
surveyor to be employed by them, shall be entitled to receive from
the persons benefitted by the opening and extending of the street
aforesaid, for the services herein enjoined on them, the same per
diem that is allowed for their services as street commissioners of the
western precincts of Baltimore, to be collected in the like manner. |
Commissioners' allowance. |
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CHAP. CXLIV.
An Act to open, straighten and amend, the public Road from Church-Hill
to Sudler's Cross Roads, in Queen-Anne's County.
Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol. 282. |
Passed Jan. 28, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Colonel James Brown, Samuel Burgess, Esquire, Thomas Seegar, |
Commissioners appointed
to alter &
straighten road. |
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