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CHAP. 21. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
near the house of John Chandlee, and return a plot of said road
to the clerk's office, to be there recorded; and the levy court are
hereby farther authorised and empowered, at the levy court next
after the said plot shall have been recorded, to appoint an overseer
to open and clear said road, as laid out as aforesaid; and the said
road, when laid out, opened and cleared, shall be and the same is
hereby declared a public highway, and shall be annually kept in
repair as other public roads in said county; and they are hereby
farther authorised to apply, at said court, such sum of money as
they shall deem necessary for laying out, surveying and opening
said road, and for payment of damages sustained by the proprietors
of land over which said road shall be laid out, which damages shall
be assessed by the commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid, and
also for the payment of a compensation, at the rate of two dollars
for every day each commissioner shall attend to the discharge of
the duties of this act, which said sums of money shall be paid as
other county charges. |
Road not to go
through any
building, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said road shall
not be made
to run through any building, meadow, garden, orchard or enclosed
yard, without the consent of the owner, nor shall any field in which
grain, hemp, flax, or other cultivated vegetables are growing, be
laid open until after the season for collecting and securing the crop
growing on such field. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XXII.
An Act to establish and confirm a Road in Harford County therein
mentioned. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 375. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Harford county, that the road heretofore
opened and cleared from William Ashmore's mill for three
or four miles towards the Pennsylvania line, near to the dwelling-house
of a certain Andrew Howlett, has been found to be convenient
and useful to the public, and that all the persons over whose
lands the said road has been laid out are satisfied therewith, and
praying that the same may be confirmed and established as a public
road for the distance aforesaid; and the same being reasonable,
therefore, |
Road declared a
public highway. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the road heretofore laid out and opened from William Ashmore's
mill towards the Pennsylvania line, near the dwelling-house of a
certain Andrew Howlett, shall be, and is hereby declared to be, a
public highway, and shall be kept in repair as other public roads
are in said county, any thing in any act to the contrary notwithstanding. |
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Passed Dec. 31.
* 1800, ch. 65. |
CHAP. XXIII.
A Supplement to an Act, * entitled, An act for the relief of Hugh
Furguson,
of Kent County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 375. A Private Act. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XXIV.
An Act to empower the Judges of the Court of Appeals to reinstate
the cause of Edward Norwood against Charles Ridgely
and Wife's
Lessee. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 376.
This act has ceased to have any operation. |
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