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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XXV.
A Further Supplement to the act, * entitled, An act to lay out a
Road
from Aquila Tarman's Tavern to Thomas Cockey's
Mill, and from
said Mill to the Road called the Deer Park Road.
Lib. JG. No. 4,
fol. 377. |
1803.
CHAP. 25.
Passed Dec. 31.
* 1801, ch. 20. |
WHEREAS by an act of assembly, entitled, † A supplement
to the
act to which this is a further supplement, any justice of the peace
in and for Baltimore county was authorised to cause a jury to be
summoned to assess the damages which a certain Samuel Wheeler
hath sustained by reason of the road mentioned in the original act
to which this is a further supplement, running through his lands,
and the said Samuel Wheeler having never applied to any justice
for the purpose aforesaid; and doubts being entertained whether
the said law can be carried into execution, except the said Samuel
Wheeler shall apply as aforesaid, therefore, |
Preamble.
† 1802, ch. 43. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
in case Samuel Wheeler shall not, on or before the twentieth day of
March next, apply to some justice of the peace for Baltimore county
to issue his warrant to the sheriff of said county, commanding him
to
summon twelve good and lawful freeholders, disinterested and unconnected
with either party, to appear before him the said justice,
on the premises, on a certain day expressed in the said warrant, to
inquire and ascertain, upon their oaths, what damages the said Samuel
Wheeler hath sustained by reason of the road mentioned in
the original act to which this is a further supplement running
through his the said Samuel Wheeler's land, that then and in such
case Thomas Cockey, of the said county, shall have full power to
call on some justice of the peace, on giving the said Wheeler five
days previous notice thereof, who shall issue his warrant as aforesaid
for the purpose aforesaid; and when the said jury have ascertained
the damages occasioned thereby, the said Thomas Cockey
shall, upon payment, or tender of payment, to the said Samuel
Wheeler, thenceforth proceed to open the road aforesaid, any law
to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Jury may be summoned
to ascertain
damages. |
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CHAP. XXVI.
An Act to lay out a Road from Crispin Cunnigham's to Frances
Smith's Stone-House, in Harford County. Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 378. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, by
the petition of sundry inhabitants of Harford county, that they labour
under considerable inconveniencies from the want of a public
road to run from Crispin Cunningham's, the place of holding one
of their district elections, to Frances Smith's stone-house; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
William Loney, John Cooley and Paca Smith, or a majority of
them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to survey
and lay out a road, not exceeding thirty feet in width clear of ditches,
in as straight and convenient a direction as may be, from Crispin
Cunningham's to Frances Smith's stone-house. |
Commissioners
appointed to lay
out road. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall and they are hereby directed and required to
make, or cause to be made, a plot of the said road, when surveyed
as aforesaid, and to ascertain and estimate the damages that may
be sustained by any person or persons through whose lands the
same shall pass, and shall make a return of said plot, together with a |
Plot to be made--
damages to be ascertained. |
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