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CHAP. 79. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
prove to the satisfaction of any one of the justices of the peace residing
in said town, that the said geese or swine did not go at large
from negligence or want of care on the part of the said owner or
owners, and that due diligence was used to prevent it, then and in
that case the owner or owners shall have return of the said property,
on paying all expenses of keeping and proving the same. |
Act repealed.
* Ch. 130. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the act, entitled,
An act to prevent
geese and swine from going at large in the town of Rockville,
in Montgomery county, passed at December session eighteen hundred
and thirteen*, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
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Passed Jan. 31, 1818. |
CHAP. LXXX.
An Act for the benefit of John K. Rowe and Richard Bevan, of Baltimore
County. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 575. A Private Act.
Certain deeds of conveyance declared
to have the same force and effect as if Thomas
Evans, to and from whom two of them had been made, had been naturalized. |
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Passed Jan. 31, 1818.
† 1801, ch. 54. |
CHAP. LXXXI.
An Additional Supplement to an act†, entitled, An act relating
to the
Public Roads in the several Counties therein mentioned.
Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 576. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the present law relating to public roads
in Charles
and Calvert counties, has been found by experience to be inefficient,
and the overseers appointed in pursuance of that act have
heretofore been negligent in having the same carried into effect;
therefore, |
Levy court to notice
overseers who
neglect their duty.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the levy courts
in the counties aforesaid, at their last meeting in each year, to
take notice of, and enter on their journal, the name or names of
such overseer or overseers of roads in their respective bounties, as
shall neglect to comply with and pursue the directions of the
eleventh section of the law to which this is a supplement, and such
overseer or overseers, so neglecting to do the same, shall forfeit
for
each offence the sum of eight dollars, to be deducted by the levy
court from their annual allowance; Provided nevertheless, that it
shall be discretionary with said court to remit that forfeiture if
application be made, and good cause shewn, at any time before the
county levy for the ensuing year shall be assessed and proportioned. |
Additional allowance
to overseers. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every overseer
of roads in the
counties aforesaid, hereafter appointed, shall be allowed eight dollars
per annum in addition to the sum already allowed them by the
thirteenth section of the act to which this is a supplement, to be
made out and paid as heretofore. |
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Passed Jan. 31, 1818. |
CHAP. LXXXII.
An Act to inspect and transcribe the Records of the Surveyor of
Charles County, and for other purposes.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol.
577. |
Records to be inspected
and transcribed. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John Barnes, William S. Jones and Thomas Jones, or any two of
them, be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to inspect
the records of the surveyor of Charles county, for the purpose |
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