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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XLVII.
An Act authorising James Wilson, late Sheriff and Collector of Baltimore
County, to complete his Collection. Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 403. |
1803.
CHAP. 47.
Passed Jan. 7,
1804. |
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CHAP. XLVIII.
An Act authorising the Levy Court of Washington County to open a
Road in said County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 404. |
Passed Jan. 7,
1804. |
WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Washington county
have petitioned
this general assembly for a road, leading from William
Bennett's ferry to intersect the old road leading from Hancock-town
to Fort Cumberland at George Barnhart's; |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Washington county, if they or a majority of
them should think that a road from the said William Bennett's ferry,
on Potomac, to George Barnhart's, is necessary or beneficial
to the inhabitants of said county, shall have full power and authority
to appoint three commissioners to view said ground, and
lay off a road, not exceeding twenty feet wide, on the straightest
direction the ground will admit of, and have the same surveyed,
and plain plots made of the same, and return said plots to the levy
court of the county aforesaid, under their hands; and said commissioners
shall have full power to bargain and contract with any person
or persons over whose land the said road may pass, or adjudge
the damage any person or persons may sustain by the said road,
and make a return of all contracts by them made for land, or
damages adjudged by them by reason of opening said road, to the
levy court, under their hands, and the said court may order the
same to be recorded, or reject the same, or any part thereof; and
the levy court shall levy on the assessable property of Washington
county the expense of the commissioners for viewing and surveying
said road; and of the levy court shall confirm the said road
agreeable to the return of the commissioners, and cause the same
to be recorded, the levy court shall then appoint a supervisor or
supervisors to clear and open said road, not exceeding twenty feet
in width, and may levy the expense of said road upon the assessable
property of Washington county; or should the levy court be of
opinion that said road is not of public utility, but is only calculated
to serve private individuals, in that case the court shall have
power to grant said road, on the application of petitioners, the petitioners
paying all damages and expense of said road; and if the
levy court confirms said road, and have it recorded, it shall then
be under the same rules and regulations as other roads are in
Washington county. |
Commissioners to
be appointed to
lay off a road--to
adjudge damages. |
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CHAP. XLIX.
An Act for the benefit of the Congregation of the German or High
Dutch Reformed Christian Church in Frederick-Town, in
Frederick
County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 405.
See Nov. 1809, ch. 48. |
Passed Jan. 7,
1804. |
WHEREAS certain lands and tenements, and other property,
have
been heretofore conveyed in trust for the benefit of the congregation
of the German or High Dutch Reformed Christian Church in
Frederick-town, in Frederick county, and by reason of the death
of some of the trustees, and other causes, doubts have arisen as to |
Preamble. |
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