| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
the constable of the hundred, commanding him to summon twelve
disinterested freeholders, to meet upon the premises on a certain day,
of which at least ten days notice shall be given to the parties interested;
and the said jurors, when so met, and having each first taken
an oath before some justice of the peace, that he will, without
favour or partiality assess the damages sustained by such person or
persons, at whose request the said inquisition was taken, by reason
of opening the aforesaid road through his, her, or their lands, shall
thereupon proceed to assess and value the damages accordingly, and
such inquisition shall be final and conclusive; but should the jury
award a smaller sum as damages than the commissioners had previously
done, then and in that case the person or persons at whose
instance it was held, shall pay all legal costs and charges on said
inquisition, but if on the contrary they should award a greater sum,
then the costs of such inquisition shall be paid by the county or
persons at whose expense the said road shall be opened. |
1817.
CHAP. 130. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said damages
shall be paid to
the person or persons entitled to the same, before said road shall
be opened. |
Damages to be
paid before road is
opened. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall, before
they proceed to act, take an oath before some justice of the
peace, of the same tenor and effect as is heretofore directed to be
taken by the jurors; and the said commissioners, shall be entitled
to
two dollars per day for their services in surveying and laying out
said road. |
Oath—Compensation. |
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CHAP. CXXXI.
An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Church Hill Academy in
Queen-Anne's County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 38. |
Passed Feb. 6, 1818. |
WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of the village of Church
Hill, and
its vicinity, have by their petition set forth, that they have erected
a large and convenient brick building for an academy, and pray
for an act of incorporation for the organization of the same; and it
appearing reasonable that the prayer of said petition be granted,
therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the said school shall be under the direction and management of
James Brown, Samuel Burgess, William Jacobs, James Butcher,
George Burgess, Jonathan Crain, Parran Taylor, Thomas Crain,
James G. Rochester, James Hall, Campbell J. Cornelius, John Hollingsworth,
John Hackett, Robert Carson, John S. Blake, trustees
of the Church Hill Academy; which trustees, and their successors,
by the name and style of The Trustees of the Church Hill Academy,
by which name and title the said trustees, and their successors,
shall be competent and capable at law and in equity, to take to
themselves, and their successors, for the said school, any estate in
lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, monies, or other
effects, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale or bequest, of any person
or persons whatsoever, provided the same shall exceed in the
whole, the yearly value of fifteen hundred dollars, and the said lands
and tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, monies, and other effects,
to grant, bargain, sell, demise, and place out on interest, or
otherwise dispose of, for the use of the said school, in such manner
as to them, or at least a majority of them, shall seem most beneficial |
Trustees incorporated. |
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