| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR
CHAP. CCLVII.
An Act to lay out ground for a Wharf and Lumber Yard at Mattapony
Landing, in Worcester
County. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 427. |
1816.
CHAP. 257.
Passed Jan. 2, 1817. |
WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Worcester county, that they labour
under great inconvenience for want of a public wharf and lumber
yard at Mattapony landing; therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John Holland, James Bevans, Robert H. Johnson, Littleton D.
Bevans and Giles Jones, senior, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners to lay out, survey, mark and bound, a piece of
ground for a public wharf and limber yard, at Mattapony landing,
in Worcester county, not exceeding two acres, in such form as the
nature of the ground and the convenience of the landholders over
which the same may run will admit. |
A piece of ground
to be laid out for a
public wharf. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall ascertain the damages which any person or
persons may sustain by reason of the said wharf and lumber yard
being laid out from his, her, or their lands, which shall be first
paid, or secured to be paid, by the persons interested in laying out
said wharf and lumber yard, before the said wharf and lumber yard
be made public. |
Damages to be ascertained. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, are hereby directed to return a plot of the said wharf
and lumber yard, when surveyed, marked and laid out as aforesaid,
to the clerk of the county court, to be by him recorded; which
wharf and lumber yard, when laid out, shall be deemed and taken
as a public wharf and lumber yard for ever thereafter, and shall be
kept up and repaired as all other public wharfs in said county are;
Provided, that nothing herein contained shall in any manner authorise
the said commissioners to lay out the said wharf and lumber
yard through the buildings, garden, orchard or yard, of any person
or persons, without his, her, or their consent. |
Plot to be returned.
Proviso. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the persons interested
in laying
out the said wharf and lumber yard, shall pay to the commissioners
the reasonable expenses for surveying and laying out the said
ground for a public wharf and lumber yard, and making out and
returning the said plot. |
Persons interested
to pay expenses. |
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CHAP. CCLVIII.
An Act for the benefit of Lawson Alexander, and the Representatives
of the late Reverend Joseph Cowden. Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 429.
A Private Act. |
Passed Feb. 5, 1817. |
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CHAP. CCLIX.
An Act for the encouragement of Literature. Lib. TH. No.
5, fol.
429. |
Passed Feb. 5, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the increase of the school fund of this state, there shall be raised
by lottery the sum of fifty thousand dollars a year, for five successive
years, if practicable. |
Sum to be raised. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Richard Frisby,
Robert Barry,
Govert Haskins, James Mosher, Luke Tiernan, John Hillen,
Baltzer Schaffer, William Jessop, Samuel Hollingsworth, Owen |
Managers appointed
—to give bond. |
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