| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CXXXII.
An Act for the relief of Benjamin Pearce, of Cecil County.
Lib.
TH. No. 6, fol. 345. |
1818.
CHAP. 132.
Passed Feb. 6, 1819. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Jeremiah Taylor, Thomas Biddle, sen. Josiah Alexander, Spencer
Biddle, and William Boulden, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners to ascertain the damages sustained by Benjamin
Pearce by the opening and making public the road in Cecil county
beginning at the south east corner of a tract of land called Knowl
Wood, and running with the line of the same to Elk River.
See 1815, ch. 83. |
Commissioners to
ascertain damages
sustained by him. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall value and ascertain the damages sustained by
opening said road, and return the same to the levy court at their
next sitting thereafter, and the damages so ascertained shall be levied
and assessed, as other county charges are, and shall be paid
over to the said Benjamin Pearce, or his order. |
To return the
same to levy court. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall be
entitled to receive as a compensation for their services, a sum not
exceeding two dollars per day, to be ascertained by the levy court,
which is hereby directed to be levied, collected and paid, as other
county charges are. |
Allowance to commissioners. |
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CHAP. CXXXIII.
An Act to amend the Law in the cases therein mentioned. Lib.
TH.
No. 6, fol. 345. |
Passed Feb. 6, 1819. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
in all cases of petitions now pending, or hereafter to be instituted,
in any of the courts of this state, where a person or persons, nonresidents
of this state, are or may be a party or parties thereto, it
shall and may be lawful for such court, upon being satisfied of
such nonresidence as aforesaid, and that the process of such court
cannot be served on such party, to order and direct such notice to
be given by advertisement in the public papers, or otherwise, as
they may deem reasonable, upon consideration of all the circumstances,
warning such person or persons, nonresidents as aforesaid,
to appear by a certain day by them to be appointed, at least three
months thereafter, and on such notice being given, it shall and
may be lawful for such court, and they are hereby authorised and
empowered, forthwith to hold jurisdiction of the case, and to hear
and determine the same as fully and amply, to all intents and purposes,
as if such person or persons, nonresidents of this state as
aforesaid, had appeared thereto. |
In cases where
nonresidents are
parties, court to
cause notice to be
given for them to
appear by a certain
day, &c. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That upon all petitions
of any guardian
or prochein ami, for the sale of the real estate of any infant or
infants,
it shall and may be lawful for the court before whom any
such petition may be pending, and they are hereby required, to issue
a commission to not less than three discreet and sensible men,
freeholders of the county where such lands to be affected by such
petition may lie, whose duty it shall be to view and ascertain, by
competent and disinterested evidence, the real value of the said
lands, taking into consideration the quality, local situation, improvements,
with all the advantages, and also for disadvantages
and incumbrances attending the same, and to determine, under all
circumstances, whether it would be to the interest and advantage |
Upon petition or
sale of real estate
of infants, court to
appoint freeholders
to ascertain
real value of the
land, &c. |
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