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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
may consider him or herself aggrieved thereby, it shall be and is
hereby made the duty of the sheriff of the county where such lands
or tenements shall lie, on application, forthwith to summon twelve
disinterested men of his county as a jury, to meet on the premises,
on a certain day to be by him named, which jury upon their oath,
to be administered by the said sheriff, shall ascertain the damages
such proprietor or proprietors will sustain by reason of such road
running through his, her or their land, and the said jury are hereby
required to consider the convenience and benefit, and the disadvantages,
if any, occasioned by the road passing through the same,
and the said sheriff shall return the inquest of the jury, under his
hand, and their hands and seals, to the levy court of the said county,
and the damages so valued and ascertained shall be levied by the
said court as other county charges are, and in like manner collected
and paid over to the person or persons for whose use the same
shall be levied. |
1801.
CHAP. 89. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall be
allowed the sum of one dollar each for every day they shall attend
in executing the duties of them required by this act, and there shall
be allowed to the sheriff for summoning and swearing a jury, and
returning the inquest thereof, the sum of three dollars, and to each
juryman the sum of fifty cents for every day he may attend as such
to be assessed and levied in the same proportion and in the same
manner as is herein before directed. |
Commissioners allowance. |
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CHAP. XC.
An Act to alter such parts of the Constitution and Form of Government
as relate to Voters, and qualifications of Voters.
Lib. JG. No.
4, fol. 175.
This act was
repealed by November 1809, ch. 83, and 1810, ch. 33. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
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CHAP. XCI.
An Act to enable the Levy Court of Anne-Arundel County to assess
and
complete the Levy of said County for the year eighteen
hundred and
one. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 176. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS the late levy court of Anne-Arundel county
did not
make and assess the levy for said county agreeably to law for the
year eighteen hundred and one: And whereas it appears to this general
assembly right and proper that the present levy court should
assess and make the levy for said county, and to do all such thing
or things, act or acts, that the late levy court might have done;
therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court of Anne-Arundel county be and they
are hereby authorised and empowered, between the first day of January
and the first day of February next, to meet at their usual
place of meeting in the city of Annapolis, to adjust the ordinary
and necessary expenses of the county, including an allowance for
the poor of the county, and public roads, and for the payment thereof,
with a commission for collection, not exceeding six per cent. and
to appoint a collector or collectors of the same, in the same manner,
and agreeably to the regulation of an act, * entitled, An act for
the establishment and regulation of the levy courts in the several
counties of this state, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Justices to meet to
adjust ordinary
and necessary expenses
of county.
* 1794, ch. 53. |
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