| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CI.
A Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act to provide for the appointment
of Commissioners for the regulation and improvement
of the
Town of Princess-Anne, in Somerset County. Lib.
TH. No. 5,
fol. 619. |
1817.
CHAP. 101.
Passed Feb. 3, 1818.
* 1815, ch. 73. |
WHEREAS, doubts are entertained whether the commissioners
under the act, entitled, An act to provide for the appointment of
commissioners for the regulation and improvement of the town of
Princess-Anne in Somerset county, are authorised and empowered
to establish and regulate a market in said town, therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the commissioners of said town, under the act to which this is a
supplement, be fully authorised and empowered, if in their opinion
the interest of the said town require it, to choose and fix on some
proper and convenient spot of ground, within the limits of said
town or precincts, for the erection of a market-house, and shall
contract for and purchase the same, or any part thereof which may
be deemed sufficient for the purpose aforesaid; and in case the
owner or proprietor of the said ground shall refuse to sell or dispose
of such ground, so selected and chosen by the commissioners
as aforesaid, then the said commissioners shall have full power
and authority to condemn so much of the said ground as will be
sufficient for the purpose aforesaid, and shall issue a warrant to
the sheriff of Somerset county, to summon a jury of twelve judicious
disinterested persons of the county, having no assessable
property within the said town; and the said jury shall meet at the
town of Princess-Anne, upon such day as the said sheriff shall
appoint, (of which appointment notice shall be given to the proprietor
of the ground thus condemned) and having first taken an
oath, or affirmation, as the case may be, to be administered by the
said sheriff, without partiality or prejudice to value the said
ground, and the damages sustained by the owner or owners by
means of such condemnation, according to the best of their skill
and judgment, shall proceed to make such valuation; and the said
jury in estimating such value and damages, shall take into consideration
not only the actual value of the ground so condemned,
but also any injury that may be done by means thereof to any
other property of the said owner; and the said sheriff shall return
the valuation aforesaid, in writing, under his hand and seal, and
the hands and seals of the jury, to the sid commissioners, to be
recorded among the land records of Somerset county; the said
sheriff and jury to be allowed the same fees for their services and
attendance as in cases of attendance upon the county court; and
the sum agreed to be paid by the commissioners to the owner or
owners of said spot of ground, so purchased by them, or the sum
to which such spot of ground, so condemned and appraised as
aforesaid, and the expenses of such valuation shall amount, shall
be levied upon the assessable property of said town, and when collected
by the said commissioners shall be paid by them to the owner
or owners of such condemned ground, or his, her, or their legal
representatives; and such condemnation, valuation, recording
and payment, or tender of payment, for the said ground, shall
vest an absolute estate in fee simple in the said commissioners, for
the use of said town, and for the purposes aforesaid, for ever; |
Market-house may
be erected. |
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