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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
when surveyed and laid out, to return a plot thereof to the clerk's
office of said county, to be there filed and recorded; Provided always,
that the levy court, for sufficient cause, may reject said plot
and return, and may direct said commissioners to return another
plot of said road, and so from time to time till a plot shall be returned
which shall be approved of and confirmed by said court. |
1803.
CHAP. 66.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of said county, if
a plot shall be returned as aforesaid by the commissioners, be and
it is hereby empowered, at the next court thereafter, to appoint an
overseer or overseers to clear and open said road according to said
plot, and to levy such sum of money, as, in the discretion of said
court, shall be considered reasonable for the purpose of clearing
and opening said road as aforesaid; and the said road, when surveyed,
laid out, cleared and opened as aforesaid, shall be deemed a
public road, and shall be kept in repair as other public roads in
said county are kept in repair. |
Overseer to be appointed. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
(if the
levy court, in their discretion, shall think proper to appoint any
such,) shall be entitled to receive as compensation the sum of two
dollars for every day they shall attend for the discharge of the duties
required of them by this act, and the said overseer or overseers
shall receive the same compensation which the overseers of
public roads respectively receive, which compensations shall be
respectively levied, collected and paid, in the same manner that
other county charges are levied, collected and paid. |
Compensation to
commissioners. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
when
they lay out said road, may and they are hereby authorised to assess
the damages sustained by the individuals over whose lands the
said road may be laid out to run, and to return such assessment to
the aforesaid levy court, to be levied, collected and paid, as other
county charges are levied, collected and paid. |
Damages to be
assessed. |
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CHAP. LXVII.
An Additional Supplement to an act, (a) entitled, An act
to appoint
Commissioners to examine, survey and lay out, the Road
therein
mentioned. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 441.
(a) 1801, ch. 100. See 1808, ch. 97. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1804. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the
road contemplated to be laid out as has been improperly located, and
it being the desire of a number of the inhabitants of Baltimore
county that a correct location of the same should be made; |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the location made by the commissioners under the law to which
this is an additional supplement, or under any other act supplementary
thereto, is hereby repealed and declared to be null and void,
and that John Partridge, Nicholas Merryman, of Elijah, Thomas
Gorsuch, of Loveless, Richard Britton and George Harryman, or
any three of them, are hereby appointed commissioners to examine,
survey, lay out and mark, a road from Gravelly-hil, near the city
of Baltimore, in a direction towards Liberty-town, to the Frederick
county line, at or near Philemon Barne's plantation, of the
width of sixty-six feet, in as straight a line as the nature of the
ground will permit, running the said road by Randall's-town,
crossing the falls at Allen's mill, thence by Nathan Randall's tavern, |
Location made
under former laws
declared null and
void. |
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