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CHAP. 26. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and in case any circumstance should prevent the election of
commissioners being held on the first Monday of March in every
year, according to the act to which this is a supplement, it may be
lawful for the commissioners, or a majority of them for the time being,
to appoint another day, as soon thereafter as may be, and to
give public notice thereof five days at least previous to the day of
holding the said election, and the election of commissioners so made
shall be as valid as if the same had been held on the said first Monday
of March, as directed by the said original act. |
Compensation to
clerk. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
may allow
such reasonable compensation to the clerk of the market and bailiff
of the said towns for their respective services as they in their judgment
may think just and right. |
Penalties, how to
be recovered. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all penalties,
fines and forfeitures,
which may be incurred by any person or persons in virtue of this
act, or of the act to which this is a further supplement, and all
other monies arising in virtue of this act, shall be recovered by and
in the name of the said commissioners before a justice of the peace
as in cases of small debts, and the said penalties, fines and forfeitures,
and all other monies arising in consequence of this act, shall
be appropriated by the said commissioners to the use and benefit of
the said towns, in such manner, and at such times, as the said
commissioners shall judge proper. |
| Part of an act repealed. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any thing in the
original act to
which this is a supplement which is contrary to the directions and
intentions of this act, is hereby rendered null and void, any thing
contained in the same to the contrary notwithstanding. |
| Duration. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
continue and be in
force for and during the continuance of the original act to which
it is a supplement.
There is no limitation to the original act. |
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Passed Jan. 5, 1805. |
CHAP. XXVII.
An Act authorsing Lawrence Brengle, Collector of Frederick County,
to complete
his Collection. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 554. |
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Passed Jan. 5, 1805. |
CHAP. XXVIII.
An Act to lay out and open a Road through Tuckahoe Neck, in Caroline
County. Lib. JG. No., 4, fol. 555. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Caroline county, that they suffer
many inconveniencies from the want of a road to commence at or
near John Ruth's mill, in Tuckahoe Neck, and to run in the
straightest direction that the nature of the ground and other circumstances
will admit, until it intersects the public road leading
from Denton to Price's ferry, at or near a causeway at the northerly
corner of the late Henry Rhode's plantation, in Caroline
county; therefore, |
Commissioners appointed
to survey
and lay out road. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
George Martin, Thomas B. Daffin, John Ruth, James Hicks and
William Oxenham, or any three of them, be and they are hereby
appointed commissioners to survey, lay out, open and clear, at the
expense of the petitioners, or any part of them particularly interested |
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