| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
said road, and when opened, the same shall for ever thereafter be
deemed a public highway, and kept in repair as other public roads
in said county are. |
1816.
CHAP. 144. |
4. WHEREAS, the road leading from the Manor
Road, through
the lands of the late Joseph Meconnikin, to T. B. being a part of
the public road to Church Hill, and will be superseded by the road
contemplated by this act, therefore, BE IT ENACTED, that the
commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, when in their
judgement they shall be convinced that the road contemplated to be
opened, straightened and amended, by this act, is in such order
as will admit of travelling thereon without inconvenience, they
then shall order the shutting up of that part of the road from T.
B. to the Manor Road aforesaid. |
Part of a road may
be shut up. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
hereby appointed
shall be allowed the sum of two dollars for every day (to
be ascertained by the levy court) they shall have attended in discharge
of the duties herein imposed, which is hereby directed to
be levied and paid as other county charges are; and the said commissioners
are hereby authorised to fill any vacancies that may
happen either by death, resignation, or refusal to act. |
Commissioners' allowance. |
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CHAP. CXLV.
A Supplement to an Act*, entitled, An act authorising a Lottery
to
raise a sum of money to purchase a Lot of Ground
in Coxe's-Town,
in Baltimore County, and to erect a Building
thereon to be
used as a School-House and Meeting-House.
Lib. TH. No. 5,
fol. 284. |
Passed Jan. 28, 1817.
* Nov. 1812, ch. 73. |
WHEREAS the commissioners named in the above mentioned
law
have declined acting under the same; therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Henry Ebaugh, Thomas Lemmon, Michael Armagost, Samuel J.
Alter, Ulrick Z. Bucher, John Fouble, (of Jacob,) and William
Murray, (of Wheeler,) or a majority of them, be, and they are
hereby authorised and empowered, in lieu of the managers named
in said act, to proceed with the lottery authorised therein, and to
raise thereby the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, for the purpose
of purchasing a lot of ground in or near Coxe's-Town, in
Baltimore county, and erecting a building thereon to be used and
employed as a school and meeting-house, upon their giving bond
to the state in the sum of five thousand dollars, with condition as
prescribed in the act aforesaid, and for the application of the money
raised by said lottery to the purchase of a lot in or near
Coxe's-Town, and the erecting a building thereon to be used as a
school and meeting-house. |
New managers appointed. |
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CHAP. CXLVI.
An Act to Incorporate the Philomanthanean Society of Upper Marlborough,
in Prince-George's County. Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol. 285. |
Passed Jan. 28, 1817. |
WHEREAS sundry persons, citizens of Prince-George's
county,
have associated themselves, together, ad founded a society at the
town of Upper Marlborough, in said county, for the purpose of
promoting literature and science, denominated the Philomanthanean
Society in Upper Marlborough, and by their petition in writing,
applied to this general assembly for an act of incorporation; and
the same being thought reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
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