| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
person or persons to superintend the repairing or rebuilding
the said bridges. |
1817.
CHAP. 191. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said court
be and they are hereby
authorised and required, by a committee of their body, or by
three suitable persons to be by them for that purpose appointed, to
examine whether there is not a better and safer site for a bridge over
the Great Falls aforesaid, between the said mills and Ridgely's
Forge, and also examine the suitability of the ground for a road to
and from such site, and if it shall thereupon appear that a bridge
at such upper site would be much more safe, an the ground would
admit of making a road to and from the same, at such expense as
under all circumstances the said court shall consider reasonable and
proper to ensure the safety of the bridge, and to promote the public
convenience in travelling, then they shall cause the bridge to be
built at such upper site, and the road to be made to the same, instead
of rebuilding it at the mills aforesaid. |
Court to examine
site, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That upon such alteration
of the said
road being made, a plot thereof shall be by the said court returned
to the clerk's office of Baltimore county, to be there preserved as
other road plots, and such road, when altered and made, is hereby
declared to be a public highway of said county, and the said court
may allow and provide for the defraying such incidental expenses
attending the execution of this act as they shall consider just and
reasonable, to be levied and collected with the expenses of rebuilding
said bridges, in the same manner as other county charges, and
paid over to the person or persons entitled to receive the same;
Provided however, that the said court be and they are hereby authorised
to suspend all or any proceedings under this act in relation
to the bridge over the Great Falls of Gunpowder, at or near Patterson's
Mill, and below Ridgely's Forge, if they shall be of opinion
that it is expedient so to do. |
Plot of road.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. CXCII.
An act to allow mileage in certain cases to Jurors in Washington
County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 126. |
Passed Feb. 14, 1818. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
each and every juror summoned on the regular pannel of jurors to
Washington county courts, who shall reside more than ten miles
from the place of holding the said courts, shall in addition to the
per diem allowed by law, be entitled to an allowance of twelve
and a half cents for every mile, excluding the first ten miles, that
his place of residence shall be distant from the place of holding
the county court of said county, to be allowed him in going to,
and returning from, the court, and to be levied, collected and paid,
in the same manner, and at the same time, with his per diem allowance;
Provided, that the said itinerant charges shall be allowed
to each of the said jurors only for once coming to, and once returning
from, the said court, at any one time.
See 1797, ch. 94. |
Itinerant charges
allowed.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. CXCIII.
An Act for the relief of John Barnes. Lib. TH. No. 6,
fol. 127.
A Private Act.
The sale made to him by Timothy Carrington,
constable, of a lot in Port-Tobacco,
late the property of Philip Ostro, confirmed. |
Passed Feb. 14, 1818. |
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