| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
or ropes, across and streets, lanes or alleys, within the said city
or
precincts, in which their respective places of worship now are, or
hereafter may be situate, provided that the foot ways along said
streets be not thereby obstructed. |
1816.
CHAP. 152. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any person or persons
who shall
be convicted of intentionally breaking or pulling down any chain
or rope so authorised to be extended, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour,
and shall be punished by fine and imprisonment, or either
of them, at the discretion of the court having cognizance of similar
offences. |
Penalty for pulling
them down. |
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CHAP. CLIII.
An Additional Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act to Incorporate
a Company to make a Turnpike Road leading to Cumberland,
and
for the Extension of the Charters of the several Banks
in this
State, and for other purposes. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 291. |
Passed Jan. 30, 1817.
* Nov. 1811, ch. 79. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
in all cases where damages are claimed by the owner or owners of
land through which the Cumberland turnpike road may pass, or
where stone, gravel, earth or sand, not already quarried or dug
for the use of the owner or owners, or for sale, shall be necessary
for making or repairing the said turnpike road, the president and
managers of the Cumberland turnpike road company, or a majority
of them, or any person authorised by them, may agree with
the owner or owners of such land for such damages as may be sustained
by the said road passing through the same, or with the
owner or owners of said materials for the purchase of the same,
or with the owner or owners of the land on which the same may
be for the purchase of the said land; and in case of disagreement,
or in case the owner shall be a feme covert, under age, or non
compos,
or out of the state or county, the president of the said company,
or any person authorised by him for that purpose, shall apply
to a justice of the peace of the county where such land shall
lie, whose duty it shall be thereupon to issue his warrant, directed
to the sheriff of the same county, commanding him to summon
twelve persons who have no interest in the land or materials in
question, and who are qualified to serve as jurors in the county
court, to meet at the place where said land or materials may be,
on a day in the said warrant to be specified, not exceeding sixty
days after the day of application by the president aforesaid; and
he said sheriff shall qualify the said persons, either by oath or
affirmation, as the case may be, justly, truly and impartially, to
value the damages which may be sustained by the owner or owners
of the land through which said road may pass, or the materials
required by said company, in which valuation the sid jury shall
take into consideration the advantages and disadvantages of the
said turnpike to the said owner or owners; and the said jurors shall,
after valuing the damages as aforesaid, return under their hands
and seals, to the justice who issued the warrant, one copy of the
said valuation, one other copy to the president of the company,
and one other copy to the owner or owners of the said land or materials,
if such owner shall reside in the county where the land
lies, and shall be under any legal disability to receive the money
sustained as damages as aforesaid, and give sufficient discharges |
Company may agree
with owners
of lands for damages
sustained,
&c. |
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