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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
to summon a jury of twelve lawful men of his county, connected
to neither party, nor having any lands through which the said road
may pass, to appear, on a day to be mentioned in said warrant, on
the lands of the person or persons so applying, before him, or some
other justice of the peace for said county, the jury having first
made oath, before the justice of the peace so attending, that they
will, without favour, affection, prejudice or partiality, assess the
damages sustained by reason of opening the aforesaid road through
the lands of the person or persons applying as aforesaid, shall
thereupon proceed to assess and value the damages accordingly. |
1802.
CHAP. 9. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall not
lay out or open the said road through the buildings, gardens, meadows
or orchards, of any person or persons, without his or their
consent. |
Road not to be laid
out through buildings,
&c. |
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CHAP. X.
An Act to extend the powers of the Trustees of the Poor of Montgomery
County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 214. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
WHEREAS James Haney, by his petition to this general
assembly,
hath set forth, that he is a very poor man, and is now arrived to
the age of eighty-six years, and that by reason of his advanced
age and bodily infirmities he is unable to support himself by labour,
and prays that an act may pass for his support out of the
poor-house; and the prayer of the petitioner appearing reasonable,
therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the trustees of the poor of the said
county of Montgomery, if they shall be of opinion that the peculiar
circumstances of the said James Haney are such as to render a
situation in the poor-house particularly unsuitable for him, to support
him as an out pensioner, in addition to the number now allowed
by the act, (a) entitled, An Act to enlarge the powers of the
trustees of the poor in the several counties therein designated, and
to allow the said James Haney an annual pension, not exceeding
thirty dollars, to be paid at such time or times as the said trustees
shall direct, the amount of which said pension shall be levied in
the same manner as the other expenses of the poor-house in the
said county.
(a) 1799, ch. 65. See 1800 ch. 73. |
J. Haney may be
supported as an
out-pensioner. |
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CHAP. XI.
An Act to authorise the Levy Court of Dorchester County to permit
a
certain part of the public Road leading from the Head
of Church
Creek to the Town of Cambridge in the said County to
be changed.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 215. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of Thomas James Pattison, William Pattison, Richard Keene,
Levin Jones and Thomas Woolford, of Dorchester county, that a
part of the public road leading from the head of Church creek to the
town of Cambridge in the said county is capable of being changed,
so as to relieve the said petitioners from inconveniencies to
which they are at present subjected by the said road's passing through
their plantations, and at the same time to shorten its distance; that
all the proprietors of the land through which the new road as proposed |
Preamble. |
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