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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
benefit; BE IT ENACTED, That in all instances where by law the
property of deceased persons would have descended or devolved on
the free schools of any county, if such free schools had existed, the
same shall be, and it is hereby declared to be, the property of the
college, if any, in such county, or if none, the property of any school
to which the public aid by law has been or may be extended, and if
none, to go to the county where the property of such person or persons
so dying may lie; and that the trustees of the college or school,
or the justices of the levy court, respectively, as the case may be,
shall have the same right, power and authority, to sue for and recover
such property, as the visitors, trustees or governors, of any
such free school might or could have done; saving to the different
schools in this state the right which by existing laws, they now
respectively possess. |
1802.
CHAP. 101.
Where property
would have devolved
on free
schools, to belong
to the college. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all monies or
other property recovered
or obtained under this act, if by a college or school, shall
be applied in the same manner that other public funds granted them
are to be applied, and if by the levy court, towards the discharge
of the levy, or for the support of schools in the county, as the justices
of the court may determine on. |
Monies recovered
under this act,
how to be applied. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the seventh, eighth
and ninth
sections of chapter eight, and such other parts of the act to which
this is a supplement, as are repugnant to the provisions of this act,
be and the same are hereby repealed.
As to continuing acts see note under 1801, ch. 105. |
Sections repealed. |
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CHAP. CII.
An Act declaring part of a Bridge-street Continued a public highway.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 327. |
Passed Jan. 9, 1803. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of the county and city of Baltimore, that
Bridge-street Continued, lying within the precincts of the city of
Baltimore, is often so miry as to render it nearly impassable, to the
great inconvenience of the public; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
all that part of Bridge-street Continued, lying within the precincts
of the said city, and contained within twenty feet in width adjoining
to and on the east side of the said city line in said street, from
the intersection of Union-street to the north-east side of Forrest-street,
leading to Hillen's hay-seales, shall for ever hereafter be
deemed and taken as a public highway, and kept in repair as other
public roads in said county; Provided, that nothing herein contained
shall be so construed as to affect the buildings of any person or persons
now erected on the space aforesaid.
See 1807, ch. 100. |
Street declared a
public highway.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. CIII.
A Supplement to the act, * entitled, An act to provide for
the Election of
Representatives of this State in the Congress of the
United States,
and of Electors on the part of this State for choosing
a President and
Vice-President of the United States. Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 328.
This act repealed by 1805, ch. 97. |
Passed Jan. 9, 1803.
* 1802, ch. 70. |
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