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CHAP. 83. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
commissioners in the use and benefit of the said town, and at such
times as the commissioners shall think proper. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
CHAP. LXXXIV.
An Act concerning the Potomac Company. Lib. JG. No. 4,
fol. 298.
See 1784, ch. 33, 1804, ch. 89.
1806, ch. 79. Nov. 1809, ch. 192, ch. 193. 1811,
ch. 208. 1814, ch 75. |
Places where tolls
may be received. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the proprietors of shares in the said Potomac company, their heirs
and assigns, shall and may demand, take and receive tolls, at the
several and respective places heretofore fixed by law for the payment
and receipt thereof, to wit, at or near the mouth of Conocheague,
Hooke's Falls, the Great Falls, and the Little Falls, according
to the rates heretofore established; and all and every of the
rights, interests, privileges and immunities, heretofore granted
to, or vested in the said proprietors and Potomac company, are
hereby confirmed and established to them, their heirs, assigns and
successors. |
Locks erected at
the Great Falls to
be available in
law. |
3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the locks
erected at the
Great Falls of the breadth of twelve feet, shall be as available in
law, and shall be deemed and taken of the same force and virtue,
as if the same were of the breadth of fourteen feet; and hereafter
when new locks are erected, or old ones repaired, they shall be
erected and repaired of such breadth and length, and of such materials,
as a general meeting of the proprietors shall deem most conducive
to the public interest and convenience; provided, that no
lock shall be less than eighty feet in length, and twelve feet in
breadth. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803.
* Ch. 108. |
CHAP. LXXXV.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry
Insolvent
Debtors, passed at November Session, eighteen hundred
and
one. * Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 294.
See note under 1801, ch. 108. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
CHAP. LXXXVI.
An Act to incorporate the Members of the Taney-Town Library Company,
in Frederick County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 295. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the establishment of public libraries, under
judicious
regulations, cannot fail to promote the diffusion of useful knowledge
and the interests of virtue, and to prove greatly beneficial to society:
And whereas sundry inhabitants of Taney-Town, and its vicinity,
have formed themselves into a company, and established a library
therein, and have prayed that a law may pass creating them
a body politic for ever; therefore, |
| Persons incorporated. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Henry Spalding, Joseph Taney, Thomas Jones, Roger Brooke,
Daniel Boyle, Joseph Sim SMith and Samuel Harris, and such other
persons as may hereafter admit into their company agreeably
to such rules and by-laws as they may establish for the beneficial
and orderly management of their institution, shall be, and they, and
their successors and assigns, are hereby declared to be, one community, |
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