| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CXXIII.
An Act for the benefit of Esther Irvin, of Montgomery County.
Lib.
TH. No. 6, fol. 335. |
1818.
CHAP. 123.
Passed Feb. 5, 1819. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the levy court of Montgomery county shall be and is hereby authorised,
to assess and levy annually, so long as they shall think fit,
on the assessable property of said county, a sum of money not exceeding
thirty dollars, for the support of Esther Irvin, and the
same shall be collected and paid over to her or her order, in the
same manner that other county levies are collected and paid. |
Levy authorised
for her support. |
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CHAP. CXXIV.
An Act to confirm an old Road in Cecil County. Lib. TH.
No. 6,
fol. 336. |
Passed Feb. 5, 1819. |
WHEREAS it is represented to the general(a), that
a road in Cecil
county, which has been heretofore used as a public road, but which
is now about to be shut up by the owner or owners of the land
through which the same passes, to the great injury and damage of
many owners of fisheries: And whereas it is impossible, under the
existing laws, to obtain an order to have the said road made public,
until it shall be two lane for the ensuing fishing season; therefore,
(a) The
word assembly omitted in the engrossed law and record. |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
an old road in Elk Neck, Cecil county, leading from the place
where the road forks near to the house formerly owned by James
Waran, and running by or near to John Lurk's house, and continuing
on as occupied until it intersects a road leading to Turkey
Point, opposite to the farm whereon Samuel Aldridge now resides,
shall be and the same is hereby confirmed shall
kept up as much in the same manner that other public roads are
kept in said county; Provided, that nothing herein contained shall
be construed to prevent the owner or owners of land through
which the said road passes from petitioning to the judges of Cecil
county court, for damages to be ascertained by commissioners to be
appointed by said court for that purpose, or to shut up said road
as said commissioners may elect. |
Old road in Elk
Neck confirmed.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. CXXV.
An Act respecting Hay and Straw brought for Sale to the City of
Baltimore. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 336. |
Passed Feb. 5, 1819. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the corporation of the city of Baltimore be and they are hereby
directed, on or before the first day of May next, in addition to the
hay scales already established, to provide one or more hay scales
and apparatus for the weighing of hay brought to the city of Baltimore
for sale, one of which scales shall be established in such
place in the north western part of the said city as the mayor shall
fix and determine on. |
Corporation to
provide additional
hay-scales and apparatus. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
lawful for any
weigher or his deputy, nor or hereafter to be appointed, in and
for the said city, to ask, demand or receive, more than three cents
per hundred weight for weighing any one load of hay or straw,
excluding the wagon or cart, and said weigher, or his deputy,
shall give a certificate of the same, under the penalty of ten dollars |
Penalty on weigher
receiving more
than allowed by
law. |
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