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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sheriff of Baltimore
county,
after having given at least ten days previous notice in one or more
of the news-papers published in the city of Baltimore, shall, at any
time before the first day of March next, (a) summon twelve disinterested
freeholders, inhabitants of the said city, to meet on the
premises, who, being first sworn to assess and value what damages
shall be sustained by any person or persons whomsoever, by reason
of the opening and extending the aforesaid street, taking all benefits
and inconveniencies into consideration, and also the said sum
of five hundred dollars granted to them by the corporation, shall
proceed to assess and value what damages may sustained by any
person or persons whomsoever by opening and extending the said
street, and shall also ascertain and declare what sum of money
each individual benefitted thereby shall respectively contribute and
pay towards compensating the person or persons injured by opening
and extending the said street, and the names of the person or
persons, and the sums of money which they shall respectively be
obliged to pay, shall be returned, under their hands and seals, to
the register of the said city, to be filed in his office; and the person
or persons benefitted by the opening of said street, and assessed as
aforesaid, shall respectively pay the sum or sums of money so
charged and assessed to him or them within six months after the
same shall be ascertained as aforesaid.
(a) See
1804, ch. 17, extending the same to the 1st of August 1805. |
1803.
CHAP. 68
Damages to be ascertained. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums of money
assessed and
charged to each individual benefitted by extending and opening the
aforesaid street, shall be a lien upon and bind all the property so
benefitted thereby, to the full amount thereof. |
Sums assessed to
be a lien on property. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the person
or persons injured
by opening and extending said street shall not be paid the
damages by them respectively sustained and assessed as aforesaid,
within the time limited for the payment thereof as aforesaid, he,
she or they, shall and may institute suits in Baltimore county court
for the recovery thereof, in which it shall be sufficient to declare
for money had and received, and this act and the proceedings under
the same, shall be evidence to support such action or actions. |
Persons injured
may sue for damages. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said street
shall not be extended
or opened through the property of any individual until the
damage by them sustained and assessed as aforesaid shall be paid,
or secured to be paid to their satisfaction. |
Damage to be paid
before street is
opened. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the obstructions
which
now exist shall not be removed within twenty days after the money
so charged and assessed is paid, or secured to be paid as aforesaid,
the city commissioners shall and they are hereby authorised and
directed to cause the same to be removed without delay, and to
charge the expense of such removal to the proprietor or proprietors
thereof. |
Obstructions to be
removed. |
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CHAP. LXIX.
An Act to alter and change the names of James Clerk, and Margaret
Russell his Wife, of Prince-George's County, and of
their Children.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 444.
Surname changed to Clerk Lee. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1804. |
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