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and assessment of damages by the said commissioners, it shall be
lawful for any justice of the peace of the county in which said
person or persons may live, through whose land the said road may
pass, and by which he, she or they, may conceive himself, herself
or themselves aggrieved, upon application to any of the persons
interested, to issue his warrant, under his hand and seal, directed
to the sheriff of said county, commanding him to summon twelve
disinterested freeholders, to appear on a day to be appointed by
the said justice on the land of the person making application, and
the said freeholders, having first made oath before some justice of
the peace for the said county, that they will, without favour, affection
or partiality, assess the damages sustained by the person
or persons at whose request such inquisition shall be made, by
reason of opening the said road through his, her or their lands,
shall thereupon proceed to assess and value the damages accordingly,
of which the said commissioners shall have at least five
days previous notice, and such inquisition shall be final and conclusive;
Provided always, that the said road shall not pass through
any house, yard, garden or orchard, without the consent of the
owner or owners thereof. |
1816.
CHAP. 225.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall be
entitled to receive as a compensation for their services a sum not
exceeding two dollars per day, to be paid by the petitioners, or
others interested. |
Commissioners allowance. |
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CHAP. CCXXVI.
An Act for the relief of James Lee Morgan, of Harford County.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 388. |
Passed Feb. 4, 1817. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the judges of Harford county court be, and they are hereby authorised
and directed, to extend to James Lee Morgan, of said
county, the full benefit of the act of assembly, passed at November
session, eighteen hundred and five*, and the several supplements
thereto, without requiring the said James Lee Morgan to
produce the assent in writing of so many of his creditors as have
due to them two thirds in amount of the debts owing by him at
the time of his application for the benefit of the said act and supplements. |
Benefit of insolvent
laws extended
to him.
* Ch. 110. |
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CHAP. CCXXVII.
An Act to provide permanent Salaries for the Judges of Baltimore
City Court. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 388. |
Passed Feb. 4, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the chief judge of Baltimore City Court shall receive for his salary
the sum of twenty-four hundred dollars per annum, and each of
the associate judges of the said court shall receive for their respective
salaries the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per annum. |
Salaries allowed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said salaries
shall be paid in
the following manner, to wit: The salary of the chief judge shall
be paid quarterly to him, or his order, out of any unappropriated
money which may be in the treasury; and the salary of both the
associates shall be levied and assessed on all the assessable property
within the limits of the jurisdiction of the said court, and
in the manner prescribed by the bill†, entitled, An act to provide |
How to be paid.
† Ch. 123. |
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