| 1801.
CHAP. 89.
Passed Dec. 31. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. LXXXIX.
An Act to straighten and amend the road leading from Leonard-town,
in Saint-Mary's County, to Newport, in Charles County.
Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 173. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Saint-Mary's and Charles counties,
that from a variety of natural and accidental causes the road leading
from Leonard-town, in Saint-Mary's county, to Newport, in
Charles county, has become very inconvenient, hazardous, and unsafe
for travellers, and they have prayed that commissioners may
be appointed to straighten and amend the same; and it appearing
reasonable and proper that the said difficulties, as far as is practicable,
should be removed, |
Commissioners appointed
to examine
and alter
road. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Philip Key, Luke White Barber, Clement Briscoe, Bennet Walker
and William Mills, of Saint-Mary's county, and Henry Cooksey,
Benjamin Douglass, Walter Dyson and Samuel Emory, of Charles
county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to examine
the road leading from Leonard-town, in Saint-Mary's county,
to Newport, in Charles county, and the said commissioners, or any
five of them, are authorised to alter, straighten and amend, the said
road, in such manner and places as they may think right and proper,
provided that the said road shall not go through any yards,
gardens or orchards, of any person or persons, without his, her or
their consent, and to cause the same to be well cleared and grubbed,
twenty feet wide at the least; and they are hereby directed to employ
such person or persons as surveyor, chain-carriers and labourers,
on the said road, as may be necessary to complete the same,
and shall make a true return of that part of the said road that shall
go through Saint-Mary's county, to the levy court thereof, to be by
them recorded as a public road therein, and to be kept up in manner
as is provided for other public roads of the said county, and the
said commissioners shall in like manner make return to the levy
court of Charles county of the said road, so far as it shall go through
the said county, to be by them recorded as one of the public roads
thereof, and to be kept up in manner as is provided for the
same. |
Account of expenses
in laying
out road to be returned
to levy
courts. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or
any five of them, shall return to the levy court of Saint-Mary's and
Charles counties a correct account of the expenses incurred in the
laying out, clearing and grubbing, of the said road, and it shall
be the duty of the levy courts of the said counties, at their next
meeting for the purpose of laying their respective county levies after
such return shall be made, to levy on the assessable property in
said counties, the amount of the said expenses, each county paying
so much as shall have accrued in laying out, clearing and grubbing,
that part of the said road lying within the limits of the same. |
Commissioners to
meet at Chaptico. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall meet
at Chaptico, in Saint-Mary's county, on the first Monday in April
next, to proceed to the execution of their duties required by this
act, and any one or more of them may adjourn from time to time,
and from place to place, until the whole business shall be completed. |
| Damages to be ascertained. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in every case where
the said road
may be turned through the lands or tenements of any person who |
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