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CHAP. 47. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
of the northernmost line of houses erected and now standing on the
south side of the said street, shall be the southern boundary thereof;
and the said street shall, in every part thereof, from Bond-street
to Eden-street as aforesaid, be of a width corresponding to the
said two lines of houses. |
Commissioners of
city to lay out
street according to
directions of this
act. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the city commissioners
of the
city of Baltimore forthwith lay out, mark and bound, the said
street, according to the directions and provisions of this act; and
that all houses, buildings and improvements, heretofore made or
erected, or which may hereafter be made or erected, on either side
of the said street, corresponding with or forming a part of either
of the aforesaid lines of houses, shall be and hereby are established,
confirmed and declared, to be lawful, any law, usage or judgment,
to the contrary notwithstanding. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803.
* 1801, ch. 10. |
CHAP. XLVIII.
A Supplement to an act, * entitled, An act to open a Road from Hancock-Town,
in Washington County, by William Tong's Mill to intersect
a Road leading from Cumberland, in Allegany County,
to
Sidling Hill Creek. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 253. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the provisions of the act to which this
is a supplement
are found inadequate for the purposes thereby intended;
therefore, |
Levy for opening
and clearing road. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Washington county, at the time of laying the
next levy for the said county, shall levy on the assessable property
of said county such sum or sums of money as they may deem necessary
for the purpose of surveying, opening and clearing out,
the said road, and the payment of the damages to the owners of
the land through which the said road shall pass. |
Damages to be
ascertained. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
shall be and they
are hereby empowered to agree and contract with the person or
persons on whose lands the said road may be laid out, for the
amount of damages thereby sustained, but if such agreement
should not take place, then the said court shall issue their warrant,
directed to the sheriff of the said county, commanding him to
summon and return a jury of twelve good and lawful men of the
said county, not interested, or related to the party or parties concerned,
to be and appear before some one justice of the said county,
on the premises, at a certain day in the said warrant to be expressed,
which jury, on their oaths or affirmation, (as the case may
be,) to be administered by the said justice, shall inquire who are
the owner or owners of the said land over which the said road, so
laid out and ratified, shall pass, and what damages such owner or
owners will actually suffer from the passage of the said road over
the said land, the said jury taking into consideration all conveniencies
and inconveniencies, advantages and disadvantages, if any,
arising from the opening and improving the said road, and such
sheriff shall return the inquisition of the said jury, under their
hands and seals, and attested under his official signature, to the
next levy court to be held for the said county, and the amount of
damages therein expressed, if any, shall be paid by order of the
said court out of the monies to be levied as is herein before directed;
Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to |
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