| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
fork branch of the said river, in Dorchester county, from the Chimney
Landing up to the north west fork bridge, to the great injury
of the navigation of said river; therefore, |
1818.
CHAP. 103. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
all wears and hedges already made, or hereafter to be made, in
and across the said river, from the Chimney Landing to the north
west fork bridge, so as to stop up the passage of boats, vessels or
scows, shall be deemed, and are hereby declared nuisances, and
may be by any person taken out of the said north west fork branch
of the said river, and destroyed as such. |
Wears and hedges
erected so as to
stop vessels, declared
nuisances. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no person or persons
shall, after
the first day of March next, put, place or make, any wear or hedge
in and across the branch of said river, so as to stop the passage of
boats, vessels or scows, under the penalty of twenty dollars current
money for each and every such offence, to be recovered before
a single magistrate in the same manner as small debts are recovered,
and appropriated, one half to the informer or person who
will sue for or prosecute to effect for the same, the other half to the
use of Dorchester county, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Penalty for erecting
such. |
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CHAP. CIV.
A Further Additional Supplementary act to the act(a), entitled,
An act
for Quieting Possessions, Enrolling Conveyances,
and securing the
Estates of Purchasers. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol.
319.
(a) 1715, ch. 47. See 1807, ch. 154, and the acts therein referred
to. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1819. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
hereafter no deed of conveyance shall be good and available in law,
unless the same be recorded in the records of the county court,
when the lands, tenements or hereditaments, conveyed by such deed
of conveyance, do lie, within the time required by law. |
No deed of conveyance
to be
good unless recorded
in the county
court where the
lands, &c. conveyed,
do lie. |
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CHAP. CV.
An Act to compel the Sheriff of Harford County to keep a Gaoler
resident
in the Gaol of said county. Lib. TH. No. 6,
fol. 319. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1819. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
it shall hereafter be the duty of the sheriff of Harford county,
either to reside himself in the gaol of said county, to keep a gaoler
resident therein, under the penalty of two dollars for every day he
shall neglect or refuse so to do, to be recovered by indictment and
conviction in the county court of Harford county, in the name of
the state, one half whereof shall go the informer, and the other
half to the levy court for the use of said county; Provided always,
that the sheriff aforesaid shall be excused from the above penalty
and every part thereof, if the levy court of Harford county shall
be of opinion that the gaol of said county is not in a condition for
the comfortable accommodation of such sheriff or gaoler. |
Penalty for not
keeping a gaoler
resident in gaol.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. CVI.
A Supplement to an act*, entitled, An act relating to the Town of
Belle-Air
in Harford County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 320. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1819.
* 1817, ch. 132. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
where any dwelling-house or porch, in the town of Belle-Air, shall
have been built and now stands, on the public ground or street in
the said town, it shall not be lawful for the commissioners thereof |
Ground on which
porches, &c. stand
to be valued, and
paid for by owners
of property. |
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