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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
promote the interest of the state, and the petitioners; and provided
also, that the said petitioners, or one of them, cause to be assigned
to the state, as a collateral security for their debt, on or before the
first day of March next, a bond now in suit in the general court
of the Eastern Shore, passed by Turbutt Wright, Solomon Wright
and Clement Sewall, on the thirtieth of November seventeen hundred
and seventy-one, to Patrick Hamilton, in the penalty of three
thousand pounds current money, to be applied, when recovered and
received, to the payment of so much of their debt to the state of
Maryland. |
NOV. SESS.
1793. |
No. 4.
WHEREAS Talbot Shipley, of Anne-Arundel county,
hath in a
petition to this general assembly set forth as follows, to wit: That
whereas by virtue of an act of assembly, passed at November
session seventeen hundred and ninety-one, chapter fifty-three, entitled,
An act to lay out certain roads in Anne-Arundel and Montgomery
counties, and also by virtue of another act of assembly,
passed at November session seventeen hundred and ninety-two,
chapter thirty-five entitled, An act to establish the road from Baltimore-town
towards Frederick-town, by Ellicott's Upper Mills,
as far as the Poplar Spring, as a public road, and for other purposes
therein mentioned; and also by virtue of another act of assembly,
passed at November session seventeen hundred and ninety-two,
chapter eighteen, entitled, An act to lay open a road to and from
the mill of Benjamin Lawrence, and Elias Dorsey, on the western
forks of Patapsco Falls, the commissioners, by the aforesaid respective
acts of assembly, appointed for the purpose of laying out
the said roads, have marked, bounded and established, all the said
public roads over the land of your petitioner, so that your petitioner
is now subjected to the inconvenience and expense of maintaining
three public roads in fact, all leading through his land from
Baltimore to Frederick-town, whereby his farm is greatly divided
and cut to pieces, with very great and sensible loss to himself and
without the least advantage to the public; and the said Talbot Shipley
hath prayed that a law may pass to stop up the old road established
by the aforesaid act of seventeen hundred and ninety-two,
chapter thirty-five, from the place where the new road, opened and
established by the act of seventeen hundred and ninety-two, chapter
eighteen, intersects the old road leading from Baltimore-town
to the Poplar Spring; and that the said old road, or so much of it
as runs through the land of the said Talbot Shipley, and the law
establishing the same, may be abolished and repealed: And whereas
it is doubtful what advantages or disadvantages would result to
the public from making any alteration in the aforesaid roads, or
either of them; and it appearing proper that due information ought
to be given to the general assembly, in order that effectual justice
may be rendered in the premises; therefore, RESOLVED, That Reuben
Merriweather, John Hood and Richard Dorsey, son of John,
be and are hereby appointed commissioners to view the several
roads aforesaid, and to judge of the propriety or impropriety of
stopping up the said road as prayed for by the said Talbot Shipley,
and that the said commissioners, or any two of them, report
their opinion on the subject, in writing, under their hands and seals,
to the general assembly at their next session; provided that all costs |
Commissioners to
view, and judge of
the propriety of
stopping up road,
&c. |
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