| 1817.
CHAP. 110.
Provisos. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
majority of them, concurring in opinion, shall have liberty to make,
alter and change such road, as they may think beneficial to the public;
Provided, that the said commissioners before they proceed to
perform the duties required by this act, shall take an oath, to be
administered by a justice of the peace of said county, that they
will faithfully and impartially perform the duties required by this
act, and that the person or persons applying for such alteration,
shall pay all damages, costs and charges, that shall or may arise
from making such alteration; And provided always, that it shall
not be lawful to shut up, stop or obstruct, any road so altered or
changed, before the new road shall be made and perfected, and received
by the levy court of Worcester county; and it shall be the
duty of such commissioners to make a return of their proceedings
to the levy court, with a plot of the old road so far as is intended to
be altered, and also of the new road, and whenever the return shall
be received and confirmed by the levy court, and the new road shall
be sufficiently made and opened to the satisfaction of the levy court,
the levy court may direct the old road to be stopped, and the new
road to be received and kept in repair as other public roads.
By 1818, ch. 30, the levy court may
contract with any person for making and
opening public roads or landings granted under this act. |
Commissioners to
be appointed to
lay out roads. |
23. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court of
Worcester county be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered,
in application in writing, signed by the majority of the inhabitants
of any neighbourhood through which any road so prayed
for may pass, shall appoint not for than five nor less than three
commissioners, who shall be freeholders, and judicious men of said
county, not related to the party applying for such road, nor holding
land through which the said road shall be opened, and they, or a
majority of them, shall proceed to lay out the road so as aforesaid
ordered by the said levy court to be opened, in the manner and
width that the levy court shall have directed, as well as the nature
of the ground and other circumstances will admit; provided the levy
court shall be satisfied that thirty days previous notice has been
given by advertisement, set up at the court-house door in said
county, also in the neighbourhood where the said road is intended
to run, describing the same.
See note to section 22. |
| Plot to be returned. |
24. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the said
commissioners, so as aforesaid appointed by the levy court of said
county, or a majority of them, to cause a plot and certificate of
said road, so opened, to be made and returned to the levy court of
said county, whereupon it shall be lawful for, and the said levy
court are hereby enjoined, to levy upon the assessable property of
said county, a sum of money such as they may deem necessary for
opening the said road, agreeably to the plot and certificate aforesaid;
and the said road, when so opened, shall be, and the same is
hereby declared to be, for ever thereafter a public road, and shall
be kept in repair as other public roads are. |
Lumberyards to
be laid out in certain
cases. |
25. AND BE IT ENACTED, That on applications
for any public
road, granted under the provisions of this act, in Worcester county,
leading to navigable water, it shall be the duty of the commissioners,
when directed by the levy court, to lay out a quantity of
land for a lumber yard, at the discretion of the said levy court, not |
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