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CHAP. 14. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
person or persons entitled to receive the same, before he or they
shall proceed to open the said road. |
Jury may be summoned
when persons
conceive
themselves aggrieved.
Proviso. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons through
whose lands the said road shall pass, or his, her or their guardian
or trustee, shall conceive himself, herself or themselves, aggrieved
by such valuation and assessment of damages by the said commissioners
respectively, it shall and may be lawful for any justice of
the peace, on his, her or their application, to issue his warrant, under
his hand and seal, directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding
him to summon twelve disinterested men, qualified by law
to serve as jurors in the county court, to meet upon the premises on
a certain day, of which ten days notice at the least shall be given
to the party or parties interested; and the said jurors, when so met,
and having each first taken an oath before some justice of the
peace, that he will, without favour, affection, prejudice or partiality,
assess the damages sustained by the person or persons at whose request
such inquisition shall be taken, by reason of opening the aforesaid
road through his, her or their land, shall thereupon proceed to
assess and value the damages accordingly, taking into consideration
the advantages and disadvantages, if any, and such inquisition
and valuation shall be final and conclusive between the parties respectively;
Provided, that the said road shall not be opened through
the buildings, gardens, yards or orchards, of any person, without
his or her consent. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XV.
An Act for opening and establishing a Road in Baltimore County
therein mentioned. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 369. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it has been represented, by the petition
of sundry
inhabitants of Baltimore county, that they are desirous of having a
road opened and established by law from the Reister's-town turnpike
road unto, (what is commonly called,) the Soldier's Delight
Old Road, beginning for the same at the Reister's-town turnpike
road, and running on the divisional line of two lots of ground sold
by Philip Hammond to John Sweitzer and Richard Clark, and fro
thence on the lands of Philip Hammond until it intersects the lands
of Richard Clark, and from thence on the dividing line of said Hammond
and Clark's land until it intersects the aforesaid Soldier's Delight
Road: And whereas it is further represented, that the whole of
the proprietors of the land through which the said road may pass
have given their consent to the same, and prays that commissioners
may be appointed to lay out said road; therefore, |
Commissioners
appointed to survey
and lay out
road. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Richard Clark, Austin Choat and Isaac Dixon, or a majority of
them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to survey,
lay out and open, at the expense of the petitioners, a road, not exceeding
twenty feet in width, beginning for the same at the Reister's-town
turnpike road, and running on the divisional line of two
lots of ground sold by Philip Hammond to John Sweitzer and
Richard Clark, and from thence on the lands of Philip Hammond
until it intersects the lands of Richard Clark, and from thence on
the dividing line of said Hammond and Clark's land until it intersects
the aforesaid Soldier's Delight Road. |
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