| 1818.
CHAP. 87.
Passed Dec. 18, 1818. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. LXXXVII.
An Act to confirm an act relating to Election Districts in the City
of
Baltimore. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 301. |
Act confirmed.
* Ch. 51. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
an act passed at December session, eighteen hundred and seventeen*,
entitled, An act relating to election districts in the city of
Baltimore, shall be and is hereby confirmed. |
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Passed Jan. 18, 1819. |
CHAP. LXXXVIII.
An Act to authorise the Judges of the Court of Appeals to extend
the
time of their Sessions on the Eastern Shore. Lib.
TH. No. 6, fol.
302.
See 1816, ch. 151. |
Authorised to sit
so long as may be
necessary to settle
the business of the
court. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the judges of the court of appeals, at their annual June session on
the eastern shore, if they shall find that more than one week is required
to hear, adjudicate, settle and determine, the business of
the said court, are hereby authorised to sit so long as may be necessary
to hear, settle, adjudicate and determine, the business of
the said court. |
In case session is
extended to interfere
with sitting
on W. S. clerk of
that court to adjourn
from day to
day, &c. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the session
of the court
of appeals on the eastern shore shall be extended so as to interfere
with the time limited and appointed by law for the sitting of the
court of appeals on the western shore, the clerk of the court of
appeals for the western shore shall have power to adjourn the said
court from day to day, until the judges of the court of appeals
shall attend. |
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Passed Jan. 26, 1819. |
CHAP. LXXXIX.
An Act to regulate the manner of obtaining and altering Public Roads
in this State. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 302. |
County courts, on
petition, to appoint
three commissioners
to determine
whether
road should be
opened, &c. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the several county courts in this
state, upon petition to them, by any person or persons interested
in opening, straightening or shutting up, a public road in such
county, and sufficiently describing in the said petition the road proposed
to be opened, straightened or shut up, to issue a commission
to three commissioners, freeholders in such county, and not
related to any of the parties interested, nor holding lands through
which the said road is proposed to be opened, straightened or shut
up, authorising and requiring the said commissioners, or any two
of them, to meet on the premises, and examine and determine whether
the public convenience requires that the said road should be
opened, straightened or shut up; and if in the judgment of the said
commissioners the public convenience does require the said road to
be opened, straightened or shut up, the said commissioners, or a
majority of them, shall, in case the application shall be for opening
or straightening a road, proceed to locate the same, in such manner
as will in their judgment best promote the public convenience,
and they shall cause a plot of the same, and also of the old road,
where the application shall be to straighten or shut up a road, to
be made out, and shall return the same, together with a full report
of their proceedings, under their hands, to the county court from
which the commission issued, and of the reasons on which their |
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