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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case it should
be necessary for
the general convenience and advantage of the said village to lay
out any streets or alleys through the lands of any infant or infants,
it shall be the duty of the said commissioners, after such streets or
alleys are laid out, and before the same shall be opened, having first
taken an oath, to be administered by any justice of the peace of the
aforesaid county, justly and impartially to value the ground to be
taken away by such streets and alleys, and the damages that will
be sustained by the owner or owners by means thereof, according
to the best of their skill and judgment, to proceed to make such
valuation, and in estimating such value and damages the said commissioners
shall take into consideration, not only the value of the
ground to be taken away, but also any injury that may be done by
means thereof to any other property of the said infant or infants, a
certificate of which valuation shall be returned to the clerk of the
county court, to be recorded, with the plot and certificate of the
said village, among the land records of the said county; and upon
the payment of the damages so assessed being made to the several
guardians of such infants respectively, and their receipts for the
same being returned to the orphans court, and lodged with the register
of wills of the said county, it shall be lawful for the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, to open, for public use, the
streets or alleys which may have been laid out through the lands of
such infant or infants. |
1802.
CHAP. 25.
And make valuations
of damages
which may be sustained. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and every sum
or sums of
money paid to such guardians shall be accounted for by them with
the orphans court of the county aforesaid, and carried to the credit
of their wards in their accounts as guardians. |
Money to be accounted
for. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so soon as the
said survey shall
be completed, the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall
return a correct and accurate certificate and plot of survey of the
said village, streets and alleys to the clerk of Caroline county
court, to be by him recorded among the land records of the said
county; and the said original plot thereof shall also be by him
kept, and a certified copy of such record shall be for ever thereafter
deemed and taken as full evidence of the bounds, lines and location,
of the said village and lots, and the streets and alleys of the
same. |
Certificate and
plot to be returned
and recorded
in clerk's office. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That such land, so laid
out for streets
and alleys, and recorded as aforesaid, shall become, and for ever
thereafter be deemed, public highways, to all intents and purposes. |
Lands laid out
for streets and alleys
deemed public
highways. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
any person residing within the limits of the said village, in ten days
after laying out the same, and the return made as aforesaid by the
said commissioners, to seize or take any swine or geese that may
be found running at large within the limits of the said village, belonging
to any person residing within the same, and the same retain
in his, her or their own possession, until the owner or owners
thereof shall pay the sum of one half dollar for every hog, or for
every half dozen goose, and a proportionable sum for every goose,
so taken up, to the use of the person or persons taking up or securing
the same; and in case the proprietor or proprietors aforesaid
shall not, within two days after notice of such seizure, pay the sum
or sums as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the person |
Swine and geese
going at large to
be seized. |
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