| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
general assembly* relating to the extension of Aisquith-street,
shall, together with John Hillen and William Ross, or a majority
of them, execute the powers and duties vested in them by the said
law, and shall open and extend said street from John Murray's
house, on the Belle-Air road, to intersect the old Harford road,
in such direction as shall in their judgment best promote the public
convenience with the least private injury, and return a plot thereof
as required by the said act. |
1816.
CHAP. 216.
* Ch. 217. |
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CHAP. CCXVII.
An Act Supplementary to an act†, entitled, An act to provide
for the
appointment of Commissioners for the regulation and
improvement
of Salisbury, in Somerset and Worcester Counties.
Lib. TH. No.
5, fol. 369. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1817.
† 1811, ch. 153. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Esme M. Waller, Handy H. Irving, Jehu Parsons, John Huston,
Levin Dorman, sen. and Thomas Humphreys, or a majority of
them, are hereby appointed commissioners to survey, alter, amend
and lay out anew, that part of the county road dividing Somerset
and Worcester counties, and situated in the town of Salisbury, and
the other county roads situated in the said town, as near to their
original location as the nature of the case will allow, provided
such alteration be made with the consent of three fourths of the
proprietors of the houses and lots adjacent to the said county road
or roads, and when the said road or roads are so surveyed, altered,
amended and laid out anew, and the said commissioners make out
and return a plot or plots of the said road or roads to the clerk of
Somerset county court, to be recorded among the records of said
county, the said roads shall for ever thereafter be deemed public
highways. |
Roads to be surveyed
and laid out
anew. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or a
majority of them, are hereby authorised and empowered, to cause
a correct survey of the lots in that part of the said town heretofore
located, to be made according to the original location thereof. |
Lots to be surveyed. |
3. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED,
That the
said commissioners are authorised to re-locate and lay out anew,
so much of said town as was heretofore located, as agreeably to
the original location as the same will admit of, deviating therefrom
when the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall adjudge
it absolutely necessary, provided such new location meets with the
consent of proprietors of the respective lot or lots so laid out anew. |
Part of town heretofore
located to be
laid out anew. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, are hereby authorised and empowered, to survey
and lay off lots and streets in that part of said town not heretofore
located and laid out. |
Streets to be laid
out. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or any
four of them, are hereby authorised and required, having first
given ten days notice of the time and place of their meeting, to issue
summons for such persons as may be applied for by any of the
proprietors aforesaid, who are hereby required to attend under the
penalty of three dollars current money for every neglect or refusal,
and to examine them upon oath, or affirmation, touching and concerning
their knowledge of the bounds, limits and extent, of any |
Summons may issue
for persons to
a certain extent of
lots, &c. |
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