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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
commissioners, (a) who shall, on or before the first day of
August next, meet at the court-house aforesaid, and having so met,
the said commissioners, or any two of them, shall have power and
authority to direct the surveyor of Montgomery county, or any
person whom they may think proper to appoint, to survey the said
town, and the several lots therein, and make out an exact plot
thereof, and shall ascertain and limit the extent of the lots, streets
and lanes thereof, most agreeably to their original location, according
to the best evidence that can be obtained, and the said lots, so laid out,
shall by them be numbered one, two, three, and so on, for distinguishing
each lot from the other, and shall cause the said streets
and lanes to be named by certain names; and the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, shall have full power to adjourn from
day to day till the duties imposed by this act are fully performed.
(a) By 1802, ch. 28, other commissioners appointed,
&c. |
1801.
CHAP. 76. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said lots,
when they are surveyed
and laid out by the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority
of them, shall be and are hereby erected into a town, to be called
and know by the name of Rockville; and the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, are hereby directed to return a correct
certificate and plot of the said lots to the clerk of Montgomery county
court, who is hereby required to record the same among the land
records of said county, and keep the original certificate and plot in
his office, and a certified copy of the original, or record, or any
part thereof, shall be conclusive evidence as to the bounds and lines
of the said town, and the lots thereof. |
Town erected to
be called Rockville. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, are hereby authorised and required, having first
given twenty days notice of the time and place of their meeting by
public advertisement, to issue summonses for such person or persons
as may be applied for by any of the proprietors aforesaid,
which said witnesses are hereby required to attend, under the penalty
of five dollars for every neglect or refusal, and to examine
them upon their corporal oath, or affirmation, as the case may be,
touching and concerning their knowledge of the bounds, limits and
extent, of any of the lots, streets and lanes, of the said town, and
to establish the same accordingly; and each witness attending under
any summons issued as aforesaid shall be entitled to receive one
dollar for every day she shall so attend. |
Commissioners to
issue summonses,
&c. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the proprietors
of the lots, or any part of a lot, in the said town, to provide
boundary stones, and to have them marked and set up at the
termination of the line or lines of their respective lots, in the presence
of the said commissioners, or a majority of them, which
shall thereafter be deemed and taken to be the true bounds of the
said lots, or any of them. |
Proprietors of lots
to provide and
set up boundary
stones. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, If any of the commissioners
shall die,
refuse, neglect, or be rendered incapable to act, the remaining
commissioner or commissioners may appoint some other person
in the place of the person or persons who shall so die, refuse, neglect,
or be incapable to act. |
How vacancies are
to be filled. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each of the said
commissioners
shall be allowed two dollars per day for each and every day they
shall attend as commissioners aforesaid, and that the surveyor |
Commissioners allowance. |
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