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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
least ten days notice in one of the news-papers of the city of Baltimore,
summon twelve freeholders, inhabitants of the said city,
not interested in the premises; and the said jury, when so met,
(and having individually taken an oath or affirmation, as the case
may require, faithfully and impartially to do and perform all the
duties imposed upon them by this act to the best of their skill and
knowledge,) shall proceed to assess and impose what damage shall
be paid by every person or persons holding houses or lots in and
upon Second-street, between Frederick-street and the market-space,
and on persons holding houses or lots on Water-street, and who
have been benefited by the opening and extension of Second-street
to the market-space, to the person or persons who have heretofore
been assessed to pay damage for opening and extending Second-street
from South-street to the market-space, in proportion as such
person or persons on Second-street between Frederick-street and
the market-space and on Water-street are benefitted, and in proportion
as the person or persons between South-street and Frederick-street
and on South-street have heretofore been compelled to
pay; and the names of the person or persons, and the sums of money
which they shall respectively be obliged to pay, and which
they shall be entitled to receive, shall be returned, under their
hands and seals, to the register of the said city, to be filed and
kept in his office; and the person or persons assessed as aforesaid
shall respectively pay the sum or sums of money so charged and
assessed to be paid by him or them, with interest thereon at the
rate of six per cent. from the time limited for the payment thereof
by the said jury, to the person or persons to whom the same is directed
to be paid. |
1801.
CHAP. 81. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sum or sums
of money imposed
and assessed upon any person or persons in virtue of this
act, shall be a lien upon, and bind the property of, such person or
persons, who shall, by the jury aforesaid, be assessed to pay the
same. |
Sum assessed to be
a lien on property. |
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CHAP. LXXXII.
An Act for the relief of Elizabeth Townsend, and their Heirs of
Levin
Townsend, of Worcester County. Lib. JG. No.
4, fol. 164. A
Private Act. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
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CHAP. LXXXIII.
A Further Supplement to an act, * entitled, An act relating to the
public
Roads
in Somerset County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 166. |
Passed Dec. 31.
* 1708, ch. 38. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, the several and respective
overseers of the public roads in Somerset county shall make, or secure
to be made, due compensation to the proprietor or proprietors
of any tree or trees which they may cut down for the purpose of
making or repairing any bridge or causeway under their care and
direction, in such manner as they levy court of said county shall
direct and appoint; Provided, that before any tree or trees shall
be
cut down for the purposes aforesaid, notice thereof shall be given
to the owner, tenant or overseer, of the land on which the said
trees may be. |
Compensation to
be made to proprietors
of trees
cut down.
Proviso. |
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