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CHAP. 55. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
party interested, to issue his warrant, under his hand and seal, directed
to any constable of the county, commanding him to summon
five freeholders, who do not hold lands through which the said road
may pass, to appear, on a day by the said justice to be appointed,
on the land of the person or persons making application as aforesaid;
and the said freeholders, having first made oath before said
justice, that they will, without favour, affection or partiality, assess
the damages sustained by the person or persons at whose request
such inquisition shall be taken, by reason of opening the
said road through his, her or their land, shall thereupon proceed
to assess and value the damages accordingly, and such inquisition
and valuation shall be final; and the party or parties in whose favour
the valuation ascertained as aforesaid, shall be entitled to receive
the same from the said treasurer, on a order drawn on him
by the said commissioners, or a majority of them, and upon the
payment of the money, or securing the same to be paid, to the
person or persons through whose land the said road is intended to
pass, the said commissioners may open the said road through such
person or persons land; Provided, that the said road shall not pass
through any house, yard, garden, meadow or orchard, unless with
the consent of the owner or owners thereof. |
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Passed Jan. 7, 1804. |
CHAP. LVI.
An Act to repeal part of the Act of Assembly therein mentioned.
Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 414. |
Part of an act repealed.
* Ch. 63. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
all such parts of the act, entitled, An act for making an addition to
the town of Havre-de-Grace, and to improve the navigation of the
river Susquehanna, and for other purposes, passed at November
session, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, * as relate to the laying
out into lots, and annexing the same to said town, part of the lands
called Convenience and Brother's Lot, which are contained within
the following description, metes and bounds, and which lie on the
south and west sides of the following streets and lines, to wit:
Beginning
for that part of Brother's Lot at the point where the south
side of Alliance-street intersects the old town of Havre-de-Grace,
and running then westerly, with Alliance-street, and on the south
side thereof, to its intersection with Allegany-street, at a point
twenty feet distant from the east side thereof, then northerly, with
Allegany-street, and twenty feet distant from the east side thereof,
till it intersects the north line of the said tract of land called
Brother's Lot, and also all that part of the addition to the said
town, being part of the tract of land aforesaid, called Convenience,
which lies on the west side of a line running twenty feet distant
from the east side of Ohio-street, be and the same are hereby repealed. |
Right to certain
land vested in proprietors.
Proviso. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, That the right and title
to the land,
contained within the limits aforesaid be and the same is hereby
vested in the several proprietors, their heirs or assigns, as tenants
in common, according to their respective rights and interests, as
fixed by their articles of association of the sixteenth day of May,
seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, and in the same manner as if
the aforesaid law had never passed; Provided, that nothing herein |
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