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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon
twelve disinterested persons, qualified to serve as jurors in the
court court, to meet at the place where the said materials may be,
and the said sheriff shall qualify the said persons, either by oath or
affirmation, (as the case may be,) justly, truly and impartially, to
value the damages which may be sustained by the owner or owners
of the materials required by such company; and the said persons
shall, after valuing the damage which may be sustained by the
owner or owners of such materials, and return, under their hands
and seals, to the justice who issued the warrant, one copy of their
said valuation, one other copy to the president of the company, and
one other copy to the owner or owners of the said materials, if such
owner shall reside in the county where the said materials
may be, and shall not be under any legal disability to receive
the money adjudged and give sufficient discharges therefor, and
the president and managers shall pay, or secure to be paid, the damages
so adjudged before they shall proceed to remove the said
materials; and if the owner or owners of such materials shall reside
out of the county, or be under any legal disability, then the
president and managers shall enter into bond, conditioned for the
payment of the damages assessed to the person or persons who may
be duly authorised to receive the same, and shall lodge said bond
and a copy of the said valuation, in the office of the clerk of the
county court, to be by him recorded, and upon such bond, or an office
copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted against the obligors
therein named, by any person or persons entitled to receive
such damages; and the justice and sheriff shall be entitled to receive
the same fees for services under this act as they are allowed
in similar cases; and the persons summoned as jurymen to value
the damages sustained as aforesaid, shall each receive one dollar
for every day he shall attend for that purpose, which fees and allowance
shall be paid by the president and managers of the company
at whose instance the persons may have been summoned. |
And erect bridges
over waters crossing
the roads. |
17. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said presidents,
managers and
companies, shall have power to erect permanent bridges over all
the waters crossing the said roads, whenever the same shall be
found necessary, and shall cause the said roads to be kept open to
the same width, and in the same place, as they were originally laid
out and confirmed by the commissioners of review, and acts of assembly
heretofore passed relating thereto, and shall case twenty
feet thereof in breadth at least to be made an artificial road, which
shall be bedded with wood, stone or gravel, or any other hard substance,
well compacted together, a sufficient depth to secure a solid
foundation to the same, and the said road shall be faced with
gravel or stone pounded, or other small hard substance, in such
manner as to secure a firm, and as near as the materials will reasonably
admit, an even surface, and so nearly level in its progress
as that it shall in no place rise or fall more than will form an angle
of four degrees with an horizontal line, except over the Catoctin
and South mountains, where it may rise or fall to an angle of six
degrees with an horizontal line, and shall for ever hereafter, during
the continuance of said incorporation or incorporations, maintain
and keep the same in good and perfect order and repair. |
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