| 1803. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
votes for president shall be the president, if such number be a majority
of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person
have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers,
not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as president,
the house of representatives shall choose immediately, by
ballot, the president, but in choosing the president the votes shall
be taken by states, the representation from each state having one
vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members
from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the state
shall be necessary to a choice; and if the house of representative
shall not choose a president, whenever the right of choice shall devolve
upon them, before the fourth day of March next following,
then the vice-president shall act as president, as in the case of the
death, or other constitutional disability, of the president; the person
having the greatest number of votes as vice-president, shall be
the vice-president, if such number be a majority of the whole number
of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then
from the two highest numbers on the list the senate shall choose the
vice-president; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds
of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole number
shall be necessary to a choice, but no person constitutionally ineligible
to the office of president shall be eligible to that of vice-president
of the United States: |
| Amendment confirmed. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the aforesaid amendment be and it is hereby confirmed and ratified. |
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Passed Jan. 7, 1804. |
CHAP. LXVI.
An Act to straighten part of the Road in Harford County which leads
from Underhill's Mill to the City of Baltimore.
Lib. JG. No. 4,
fol. 439.
A Supplement, 1805, ch. 62. See 1807, ch. 120. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Harford county, that the road leading
from Underhill's mill to the city of Baltimore, as it now runs,
is circuitous and inconvenient, and that the same may be considerably
shortened and improved by connecting it from the end of John
Clendennen's lane with a road leading to the city of Baltimore,
and laid out from David Hanway's mill, and praying that the said
road may be laid out as aforesaid; and the same being considered
reasonable, therefore, |
Commissioners to
be appointed to
view a road. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Harford county be and they are hereby authorised
and empowered, at their discretion, to appoint five disinterested
freeholders in said county as commissioners, and the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, are hereby authorised and empowered,
(if any such be appointed,) to view the said road leading
from Underhill's mill to the city of Baltimore, beginning at the
end of John Clendennen's land, at a branch called Stirrup Branch,
and to survey and lay out the same from thence to intersect, at
David Hanway's mill, the road leading from said mill to the city
of Baltimore, in as straight a direction as in their judgments will
best comport with the public convenience, and so as the same shall
not be laid out to run over the orchard, garden, yard or meadow,
of any person, without the consent of the owners thereof, and |
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