| 1802.
CHAP. 52.
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. LII.
An Act authorising Lambert Beard, a Collector of Cecil County, to
complete
his Collections. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 256. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803.
* 1801, ch. 48. |
CHAP. LIII.
A Supplement to the act, * entitled, An act authorising the laying
out
a certain Road in Frederick County. Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 257. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS by an act of assembly, passed at November
session
eighteen hundred and done, entitled, An act authorising the laying
out a certain road in Frederick county, and to which this is a supplement,
the commissioners therein named are authorised and directed
to open and clear a road, thirty feet wide, from the road
leading from Petersburgh, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
to the town of Westminster, in Frederick county, to begin at or
near where said road crosses Big Pipe creek, and near the upper
end of Peter Erb's meadow, and to run in a direct line to intersect
the road leading from Hanover, in the said commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
to the aforesaid town of Westminster, in Frederick
county, at the first angle on said road, on the north side of Big
Pipe creek: And whereas it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition of Andrew Shriver, the petitioner in the said
original act named, and by Peter Erb and John Erb, through whose
lands the said road will pass, that the said original act cannot be
carried into effect without great inconvenience to the said petitioners,
unless a discretionary power is given to the said commissioners
to deviate from a direct line in the laying out and opening said road,
and have prayed that the same may be done; therefore, |
Commissioners authorised
to deviate
from a direct line
in laying out road. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the commissioners in the said original act named, or any two of
them, be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, if they
shall deem it expedient, to deviate from a direct line in laying out
and opening said road, and to lay out and open the same upon such
suitable ground as the persons interested therein may agree upon,
any thing in the original act to which this is a supplement to the
contrary notwithstanding. |
| Damages to be ascertained. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons through
whose land the said road shall pass, shall think of himself, herself or
themselves,
aggrieved in the valuation of the damages to be ascertained
by the commissioners, or any two of them, agreeably to the
directions of the original act, that the said commissioners, or any
two of them, shall and they are hereby authorised and required to
issue their warrant to the sheriff of the county, to summon twelve
disinterested freeholders of said county, to appear on the premises,
on a day by the said commissioners to be appointed, and the said
commissioners are hereby authorised to administer an oath to every
person so summoned, that he will, without favour, affection, partiality
or prejudice, assess the damages sustained by the person or
persons at whose request such inquisition shall be taken, by reason
of opening said road through his, her or their land; and the person
so summoned and sworn shall thereupon proceed to value and
assess the damages accordingly, of which the parties concerned, or
some of them, shall have five days previous notice at the least, and
such inquisitions shall be final and conclusive between the parties. |
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