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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XIII.
An Act to declare the private Road leading from Philip Hardcastle's
Mills, in Caroline County, until it intersects the main
Road leading
from Greensborough to Parson Keen's, a public highway.
Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 217. |
1802.
CHAP. 13.
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the private road leading from Philip Hardcastle's Mills, in Caroline
county, until it intersects the main road leading from Greensborough
to parson Keen's, in said county, shall be, and the same is hereby
declared to be, a public highway, and shall be kept up and repaired
in the same manner as the other public roads in said county are;
Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as
to
charge the said county, at any time hereafter, with the expense of
erecting or keeping in repair any bridge that may be thought necessary
over Choptank river where the said road shall cross the
same, any thing in any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Road declared
public.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. XIV.
An Act for the benefit of William Sprigg Bowie, of Prince-George's
County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 217.
See note under 1800, ch. 44. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
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CHAP. XV.
An Act for the benefit of John A. Gillison, of the City of Baltimore.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 220. A Private Act. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
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CHAP. XVI.
An Act to lay out a Road from William Sinklair's Plantation to
Vaughn's Mine Run and Gunpowder Mills, and from thence
to the
Owl Branch. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 221.
Supplements, November 1812, ch. 127; and December 1813, ch. 30. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of the upper part of Baltimore county,
that a public road leading from William Sinklair's plantation, and
from thence to Vaughn's mine-run and gunpowder mills, and from
thence to the Owl Branch where it crosses the York road, will be
of great public convenience, and is essentially necessary; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Abraham Hicks, Joshua Kidd and William Johnson, of William,
(a) be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, or any two of
them, to survey, mark, bound and lay out, a public road, not exceeding
thirty feet in width, in the straightest and nearest direction
that the nature of the ground will admit of, at the expense of
the petitioners, beginning (b) at or near William Sinklair's plantation,
from thence to Vaughn's mine run and gunpowder mills, and
from thence to the Owls Branch, or near to where it crosses the
York road; in laying out the said road the commissioners are hereby
directed to lay out the same with as little injury to private property
as will comport with the public convenience.
(a) By December 1813, ch. 30, other commissioners are added.
(b) By November 1812, ch. 127, a different location
of the road may be made. |
Commissioners
appointed to survey
and lay out
road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, are hereby directed to return a plot of said road,
when so surveyed, marked, bounded and laid out, to the clerk of |
Plot to be returned
--Damages to
be ascertained. |
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