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CHAP. 24. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and it shall be the duty of said constable, or other person appointed
as aforesaid, so seizing and impounding, immediately to set
up notice thereof in the most public places of said town for at least
three days, and to insert the marks and description of such geese
or swine in said notices, and if the same are not reclaimed within
three days after seizure and impounding, and the expenses of impounding
and keeping, to be allowed by a justice of the peace, be
paid, together with the sum of fifty cents for every hog, and one
hundred cents for every goose, that the same shall be publicly sold
by the said constable, or other person appointed as aforesaid, giving
three days notice in writing, set up as aforesaid, of the time and
place of such sale, and the proceeds of such sale shall be first applied
to the expense of impounding and keeping them, and the surplus,
the one half thereof shall be paid to the constable, or other
person appointed as aforesaid, and the other half to be paid to the
commissioners of said town, to be by them applied towards the
mending and repairing the streets in said town. |
Part of a law repealed.
* Ch. 51. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the part of
the law passed at
November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, * which authorises
any person to kill, or cause to be killed, any geese or swine
going at large in said town, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
CHAP. XXV.
An Act appointing Commissioners for the regulation and improvement
of Denton,
in Caroline County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 228.
See 1804, ch. 54. 1807, ch. 113. 1815, ch. 207 and 1816, ch.
114. |
Commissioners
appointed. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Benjamin Denny, Levin Charles, Samuel Emerson, John Bennett
and Alexander Maxwell, are hereby constituted commissioners to
execute and perform the trust reposed in them by this act; and in
case any of the said commissioners should die, refuse to act, or remove
out of the said county, the others, or a major part of them,
shall elect some other fit and proper person or persons of the said
county in the room of him or them so dying, refusing to act, or removing
out of the said county. |
Who are to survey
land and lay out a
village--lots to be
bounded. |
2. AND, whereas it is represented to this
general assembly, that
the owners of the land in and contiguous to Denton, in Caroline
county, are desirous that a village should be surveyed and laid out,
with convenient streets, lanes and alleys; therefore, BE IT ENACTED,
That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby
authorised and empowered to survey and lay out any quantity
of land, not exceeding forty acres, (a) including the public square
called Denton, in Caroline county, and the lands thereto contiguous,
and the same, when surveyed, to be erected into a village, and
to be called and known by the name of Denton; and such village,
when surveyed and laid out, to divide into lots, which lots shall be
numbered and bounded by stones at every corner of the same; and
the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised
and empowered to survey and lay out a sufficient number of
streets, not exceeding sixty feet wide, as also a sufficient number of
alleys, not exceeding thirty feet wide, through the said village, for
the public convenience, Provided that no streets or alleys shall
be
laid out and opened through the land of any infant or infants until
compensation be made in the manner herein after provided.
(a)
By 1804, ch. 54, ten acres in addition to be laid off. |
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