| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said company
do not proceed
to carry on said work within two years after the passage of this
act, or shall not within five years thereafter complete the said road,
it shall be lawful for the legislature of this state to resume the
rights, privileges and franchises, by this act granted to the said
company. |
1817.
CHAP. 202.
If not completed
in five years, state
to resume rights,
&c. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the county court
of Washington
county shall appoint five commissioners, who shall estimate the
amount of damages sustained by any person or persons by reason of
said road passing through his, her, or their lands, or by taking of
stone, gravel, or other materials, for the use of the said road, in
cases where the parties cannot agree, which estimate shall be final
in determining such damages. |
Damages to be estimated. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it is always to
be understood,
that the tolls to be charged on wagons whose wheels are of certain
dimensions shall be charged according to the original size of the
tire, although the same may be reduced by wear below the standard
required by law; and three days shall only be allowed by this act
to the company to put their road in repair where fifteen days are
allowed by the act to which this refers. |
Tolls on wagons
charges according
to original tire. |
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CHAP. CCIII.
An Additional Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act to provide
for
the appointment of Commissioners for the regulation
and improvement
of Salisbury, in Somerset and Worcester Counties.
Lib. TH.
No. 6, fol. 139. |
Passed Feb. 14, 1818.
* 1811, ch. 153. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the commissioners appointed by an act† supplementary to an act,
entitled, An act to provide for the appointment of commissioners for
the regulation and improvements of Salisbury, in Somerset and Worcester
counties, be and they are hereby authorised and empowered,
to appoint some honest and disinterested person to assess the value
of each and every lot of ground in the town of Salisbury, in
Somerset and Worcester counties, and to determine what sum of
money, according to the relative value of said lots, each lot owner
shall pay towards defraying the expenses incurred by carrying into
effect an act supplementary to an act, entitled, An act to provide for
the appointment of commissioners for the regulation and improvement
of Salisbury, in Somerset and Worcester counties, as well as
of this act; and the person so appointed by the said commissioners,
before he proceeds to act as an assessor, shall take the following
oath, or affirmation, before some justice of the peace: " I _____,
do
solemnly swear, or affirm, (as the case may be) that I will, according
to the best of my skill and judgment, without favour, affection
or prejudice, perform the duties enjoined on me by an act, entitled,
An additional supplement to an act, entitled, An act to provide for
the appointment of commissioners for the regulation and improvement
of Salisbury, in Somerset and Worcester counties." |
value of lots to be
ascertained, &c.
† 1816, ch. 153. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforesaid commissioners
be
and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to appoint some
suitable person to collect, in the same manner as the county charges
now are collected, whatever sum or sums of money the assessor
may have determined to be due from the lot owners in the said
town, and to be paid by the said collectors to the aforesaid commissioners, |
Collector to be appointed. |
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