| 1817.
CHAP. 179.
Passed Feb. 13, 1818.
* 1814, ch. 54. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. CLXXIX.
A Supplement to an act*, entitled, An act to regulate the breadth
of a
certain Road in Kent County.
Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 110. |
Commissioners—
Levy authorised. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Jesse Knock, Lewis Blackistone, Edward Eubanks, William Terrall
and Samuel G. Ozborn, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners
for the purpose of carrying into effect the act to which
this is a supplement, (passed December session eighteen hundred
and fourteen,) and that they, or a majority of them, be and they are
hereby authorised and required, to survey and lay out the road
mentioned in the act to which this is a supplement, and to cause a
plot and certificate of said road to be made out and returned to the
justices of the levy court of Kent county; and if the said justices
of the levy court shall be of opinion that the said road has been
laid out a proper width by the said commissioners, then the said
plot and certificate shall be recorded by the clerk of said county;
whereupon it shall and may be lawful for the said justices of the
levy court, to levy on the assessable property of said county, at
such time or times as they may think most convenient to the public,
such sum or sums of money, as they may deem necessary for widening
and straightening the said road, and to appoint and employ
an overseer to widen and straighten and clear said road, agreeably
to the plot and certificate so as aforesaid to be returned and recorded;
and the said road when opened or widened as aforesaid, 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 in
said county. |
| Damages to be ascertained. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall value and ascertain the damages that may be
sustained by each and every person through whose lands the said
road may pass, taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages
to each, and return the same assessment, together with
the plot and certificate as above required, to the said justices of
the levy court; and if the person or persons through whose lands
the said road shall pass, shall consider themselves aggrieved by
the judgment of the commissioners, the party deeming himself so
aggrieved may apply to two justices of the peace of the county,
who shall forthwith issue their warrants to the sheriff of said
county directed, commanding him to summon a jury of twelve impartial
men, to appear before the said justices at some convenient
place by the said justices assigned, to ascertain the damages which
he, she or they, may sustain, and the said justices shall certify the
same, under their hands and seals, to the said commissioners, who
shall return the same to the levy court of said county, and the said
justices of the levy court shall be, and they are hereby authorised,
to levy the amount of said damages on the assessable property of
the said county, at such time or times as they may think most convenient
for the public, and the same shall be paid over to the persons
respectively who may be damaged by the widening and
straightening of the said road. |
Commissioners'
compensation. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each of the said
commissioners
shall be entitled to receive, as a compensation for his services,
every day he may be engaged in performing the duties required by
this act, a sum not exceeding two dollars per day, the same to be |
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