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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
hereby authorised and empowered to issue his warrant, directed to
the sheriff of said county, commanding him to summons a jury of
twelve good and lawful freeholders, disinterested and unconnected, to
be and appear before him, the said justice of the peace, on the premises,
on a certain day in the said warrant expressed, which jury,
upon their oath, to be administered by the said attending justice,
shall inquire and determine what damages the said Samuel Wheeler
hath sustained by reason of the said road running through and over
his said land, taking into consideration the convenience and benefits,
if any, and the disadvantages, incurred by the said Samuel Wheeler
by occasion of the said location of said road, and the said damages,
when so assessed as aforesaid by the inquest of the jury, under
their hands and seals, shall be paid in the same manner, and by
the same person, as is directed in the said original act, any law to
the contrary notwithstanding. |
1802.
CHAP. 41. |
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CHAP. XLII.
An Act for the relief of Patrick Magill, of Frederick County.
Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 248. A Private Act.
The Sheriff to execute a new deed to
him for lot No. 14, in New Freedom, sold
as the property of Jacob Coblentz. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
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CHAP. XLIII.
An act to lay out and make a public Road from the Black House
in Harford County to intersect the Pennsylvania Line.
Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 249.
Supplements, 1805, ch. 57. 11806, ch. 44, and 1807, ch. 57. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Harford county, that they labour under
great inconveniencies for want of a public road from a place
known by the name of the Black House, and leading past Henry
Myer's mill, to intersect the Pennsylvania line and a road leading
by a certain doctor Boyd's, and praying that a road may be laid off
accordingly; and the same being reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Josiah Carter, James Varney and Thomas Hope, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority of them,
are hereby authorised and empowered to view, lay out, survey,
mark and bound a road, beginning at the place known by the name
of the Black House, and running thence agreeably to the old road
as now used, except where the same, in the judgment of the said
commissioners, may require to be straigthened, to Henry Myer's
mill, thence to Thomas Poteet's, thence with a road leading to
Thomas Ayre's to the end of Poteet's fence, thence to the Pennsylvania
line to intersect a road leading past a certain doctor Boyd's,
in as straight a direction as the nature of the ground will admit;
and the said commissioners are hereby required to return a plot
thereof to the clerk's office in said county, to be there recorded;
and the levy court are hereby authorised and empowered to appoint
an overseer or overseers to open the same, and to levy a sum of
money sufficient therefor; and the said road when so laid out, surveyed
and opened, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be,
a public road, and shall for ever thereafter be kept open and in repair
as other public roads in said county. |
Commissioners appointed
to view
and lay out a road. |
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