| 1818.
CHAP. 96.
Passed Jan. 30, 1819. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. XCVI.
An Act to alter the time of holding the County Court in Somerset
County.
Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 311.
See 1805, ch. 65, s. 21. |
Time of meeting
changed. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
from and after the passage of this act, the county court of Somerset
county shall be held on the fourth Monday in May, and on
the fourth Monday of November in each and every year hereafter,
any law to the contrary notwithstanding, and that all causes, pleas,
process and proceedings, civil and criminal, now depending in the
said county court, or hereafter to be issued therefrom, shall be continued
and returnable to the said days respectively. |
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Passed Feb. 1, 1819. |
CHAP. XCVII.
An Act for shutting up part of a Street called Madison-Street, in
the
City of Baltimore, and for other purposes. Lib.
TH. No. 6, fol.
312. |
Commissioners appointed
to shut up
part of street. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Thomas W. Griffith, William Gibson, Benjamin Chew Howard,
Thomas Russell and William French, or any three or more of
them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and are authorised
and empowered to shut up that part of Madison-street,
lying between Howard and Biddle-streets, and running through
the poor house grounds, and which ground shall thereafter be vested
in the trustees of the poor-house of Baltimore county, for the
use of said poor-house; and to open and unite Madison, Garden,
Eutaw, and Price-streets, as now or lately laid off by the commissioners
appointed to lay off streets, lanes and alleys in the city
of Baltimore. |
If any person
thinks himself aggrieved,
commissioners
to assess
damages, &c.
Proviso. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons shall
think himself, herself or themselves, aggrieved or damages by the
shutting up of the first before mentioned part of Madison-street, or
by the opening of any of the other streets aforesaid, it shall be the
duty of the commissioners herein appointed, to examine and assess
the same, taking into their consideration the advantages and disadvantages;
and if the said commissioners, or a majority of them,
shall be of opinion that such person or persons is or are aggrieved
or damaged by the shutting up or opening of any of the said streets,
such commissioners shall certify the amount of such damage to the
trustees of the poor-house of Baltimore county, and the said trustees
are hereby authorised and directed to pay the amounts so certified,
or grant and convey to the person or persons so damaged,
other grounds in lieu thereof, to the satisfaction of such person or
persons, as the said trustees shall think most beneficial to the said
poor-house; Provided, that Eutaw-street shall not be so extended
without the consent of the proprietors of two thirds of the grounds
through which the same shall pass, and that Madison-street shall
not be shut up, nor the other streets opened, until such damages
are paid or tendered, or satisfied, as aforesaid. |
Trustee of poor to
receive leases, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful to
and for the trustees of the poor-house of Baltimore county, to receive
releases to their own use, of any lot or lots heretofore belonging
to the said poor-house, and leased by the levy court of said county,
and to make exchanges with the lessees thereof, or with any other |
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