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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XCVII.
An Act respecting ten Feet Lane, in the City of Baltimore.
Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 182. |
1801.
CHAP. 97.
Passed Dec. 31. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the city commissioners of the city of Baltimore be and they are
hereby authorised to condemn, as a public street of the said city,
all the vacant ground in the land called Ten Feet Lane, in the said
city, between the buildings in the east and west side of the said
lane, provided that the entire width of the said street from the east
side thereof shall not exceed sixteen and a half feet, and to record
the said street as in other cases, by the name of McClellan's-Street. |
Ground to be condemned
as a public
street. |
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CHAP. XCVIII.
An Act respecting the Register of Wills for Calvert County.
Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 182.
See 1816, ch. 158. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS, it is represented that there is no necessity
for the register
of wills for Calvert county to attend at the place where the
orphans court is held except on those days appointed for the
meeting
of said court, his office being fixed at a more central and convenient
spot, for the accommodation of the people of the county, and
not more than four miles distance from the court-house; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the justices of the orphans court for
said county to take into consideration the necessity and expediency
of the register of wills of said county being obliged to attend at the
place where the said court is held, except on days upon which the
said orphans court shall be appointed to be held, and in case they
shall be of opinion that the convenience of the people of the county
doth not require the attendance of the register at the place aforesaid,
they shall cause an entry to made in their proceedings to
that effect. |
Proceedings relative
to attendance
of register. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, that after the determination
of the
court aforesaid against the necessity of the register's attending at
the place aforesaid, except as is before excepted, no prosecution shall
be commenced or carried on against the register for his non-attendance
at the place aforesaid, any thing in any act of assembly to
the contrary notwithstanding, and in case of any such prosecution
the said register may give this act in evidence; Provided nevertheless,
that nothing herein contained shall prevent the register from
being compelled to attend as a witness when summoned. |
No prosecution to
be commenced
against register
for nonattendance.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. XCIX.
An Act to augment the shares of the Susquehanna Canal Company.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 183.
The original act, November 1783, ch.
23. See 1803, ch. 102. December 1813,
ch. 116, and 1817, ch. 150. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
it shall and may be lawful for the proprietors of the Susquehanna
canal to enlarge their number of shares at a meeting of the company,
by adding thereto a number not exceeding ten shares, and all
subscribers to such ten shares shall and are hereby from thenceforth
declared to be incorporated into said company, and to be entitled |
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