| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
appoint an overseer or overseers for that purpose; and the said
roads, when so opened and cleared, and the landing place laid out
as aforesaid, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, for
ever thereafter, public roads and landing places, and shall be kept
in repair as other public roads in said county. |
1817.
CHAP. 98. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall value and ascertain the damages that may be
sustained by any person or persons through whose lands the said
roads may be made to pass, and by opening the landing place aforesaid,
taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages,
(if any) and the damages so ascertained shall be levied and assessed
as other county charges in said county are, and shall be paid
over to the persons respectively entitled to receive the same; Provided,
that no money shall be levied or assessed for the purpose of
paying the damages to be ascertained as aforesaid until the said
roads and landing place are opened and cleared agreeably to the
provisions of this act. |
Damages to be
ascertained.
Proviso. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
before
they proceed to act shall take an oath, or affirmation, before some
justice of the peace, that they will, without favour, partiality or
prejudice, assess the damages sustained by the persons through
whose lands the said roads may pass, or the said landing place be
opened. |
Commissioners to
take an oath. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Harford county
shall allow to the said commissioners the sum of two dollars per
day for every day they shall be employed in discharge of the duties
required of them by this act, and a like sum for every day they
attended in discharge of the duties required under the act to which
this is a supplement, to be levied, collected and paid, as other county
charges in said county are. |
Their allowance. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all such parts
of the act to which
this is a supplement which are inconsistent with, or repugnant to,
the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. |
Repeal. |
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CHAP. XCIX.
An Act for the benefit of James Etcherson, and others, of Prince-George's
County. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 617. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1818. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Prince-George's county shall be and is hereby
authorised, to assess and levy annually, on the assessable property
of said county, a sum of money not exceeding thirty dollars for
each, for the support of James Etcherson, James White, Anna
Welsh, Mary Ridgway, Francis Digman, Samuel Webb, and Nathaniel
hall, and the same shall be collected and paid over in the
same manner that other county levies are collected and paid, for
the use of the said persons; that is to say, for the use of the said
James Etcherson to the order of Doctor Colmore Beanes, for the
use of the said Anna Welsh to the order of Archibald Edmonston,
senior, for the use of the said James White to the order of Richard
Snowden, for the use of the said Mary Ridgway to the order of
Stanislaus Hoxton, for the use of the said Francis Digman to the
order of Francis Magruder, for the use of the said Samuel Webb
to the order of John C. Herbert, and for the use of the said Nathaniel
Hall to the order of Samuel Philip. |
Levy authorised
for support of certain
persons. |
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