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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
not interested in the premises, and qualified to serve as jurors in
the county court, to appear on a day by them to be appointed, on
the premises, and the said commissioners are hereby authorised to
administer an oath to every person so summoned, that he will,
without favour, affection, prejudice or partiality, assess the damages
sustained by the person at whose request such inquisition may
be taken, by reason of opening the said road or roads through his,
her or their lands; and the persons so summoned and sworn shall
thereupon proceed to assess and value the damages accordingly, of
which the said petitioner shall have at least five days previous notice,
and such inquisition shall be final and conclusive between the
parties. |
1802.
CHAP. 91. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall not
lay out or open the said road or roads through the buildings, gardens
or orchards, of any person or persons, without his, her or
their consent. |
Road not to go
through buildings,
&c. |
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CHAP. XCII.
An Act directing the mode of paying the valuation of Slaves and
Servants
in cases of commutation of punishment by the Governor.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 302. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
WHEREAS by an act passed at November session, one
thousand
seven hundred and ninety-five, * entitled, An act declaring the power
of the governor in certain criminal cases, it is, among other
things, provided and enacted, that the governor for the time being
shall have full power and authority, in his discretion, to commute
or change any sentence or judgment of death passed on any criminal
by any court of this state into other punishment of labour, or
to banishment of such criminal from this state upon such terms
and conditions, and for such period, as he shall think expedient,
and if such criminal be a slave, against whom any such judgment
or sentence is or may be passed, to commute and charge the said
judgment into transportation, and sale in some foreign country for
the benefit of the state, and no provision hath yet been made by
law for paying to the owner or owners the valuation of any slave
or servant whose sentence shall be commuted by the governor under
the powers delegated to him by the act aforesaid; therefore, |
Preamble.
* Ch. 82. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
whenever sentence of death shall be passed upon any slave or servant,
and the same shall be commuted, or changed by the governor,
the valuation of such slave or servant, made by the court passing
such sentence, shall be paid by the governor in favour of the
owner or owners of such slave or servant. |
Valuation of slave
to be paid by treasurer. |
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CHAP. XCIII.
An Act to repeal the Act of Assembly therein mentioned. Lib.
JG.
No. 4, fol. 303. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
an act, entitled, An act to prevent abuses in making bricks, and to
ascertain in the dimensions thereof, in Kent county, passed at November
session, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, * be
and the same is hereby repealed. |
An act repealed.
* Ch. 16. |
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