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APPENDIX.
MARYLAND, sc.
At a Session of Assembly, begun and held at the City of
Annapolis, in the County Anne-Arundel, the twenty
eighth day of May, in the second year of the Dominion
of the Right Honourable Charles, Absolute Lord and
Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon,
Lord Baron of Baltimore, &c. and ended the eighth
day
of June following, in the third year of his Lordship's
Dominion, Annoque Domini one thousand seven hundred
and seventeen,
HIS EXCELLENCY
JOHN
HART, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
AMONGST OTHERS THE FOLLOWING LAW WAS ENACTED, TO WIT:
CHAP. IX.
A Supplementary act to the act* for ascertaining the Bounds of the
Land
within this Province. Lib. LL. No. 4, fol. 372. |
1717.
Passed 8th June,
1717.
* 1715, ch. 45. |
WHEREAS an act of assembly of this province, entitled,
" An act
for ascertaining the bounds of land within this province," hath
been found to be of great use and general case to such parts of its
inhabitants as have had occasion to make use of the same; but for
as much as its defects could not be observed before the same was
put in practice, some of which new appearing; for remedy whereof
it's prayed that it may be enacted. |
Preamble. |
1. AND BE IT ENACTED, by the Right Honourable
the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the advice and consent of his Lordship's Governor,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the authority of the
same, That whenever differences shall arise between any of the inhabitants
of this province touching the bounds of their lands, and
that if it shall so happen that either the complainant or defendant
shall be related to the major part of the commissioners appointed
in any county, or have any estate or claim of, in or unto, any lands
contiguous to the lands in dispute, it shall and may be lawful for
the remainder of such commissioners which are qualified, to nominate,
appoint and choose one or two good and lawful freeholders, (as
the case shall require) dwelling in the said county, who after taking
the usual oaths, shall be legally qualified to act with the remaining
commissioners in all such disputes, (and no other,) in as ample and
effectual manner as any commissioners whatsoever, and shall demand
and receive the same rewards for their trouble. |
If a majority of
the commissioners
are related to either
party, or
claim contiguous
lands, one or two
freeholders, &c. to
be appointed, &c. |
2. AND whereas the provision in the aforesaid
act for the commissioners
already appointed, or hereafter to be appointed for ascertaining
the bounds of land in each county, seems to admit of a dispute
in respect of their allowance per day; to prevent which for
the future and to explain such ambiguous expressions, BE IT ENACTED,
by the authority aforesaid, by and with the advice and consent
aforesaid, That each and every such commissioners already appointed,
or hereafter to be appointed for ascertaining the bounds
of land in each respective county, be allowed the sum of one hundred |
Allowance to the
commissioners. |
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