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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
roads, (a) shall remain suspended, and shall not be carried into
execution until after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and
eight; Provided, that the persons named in the third section of
this
act may, at their discretion, proceed to open books for subscriptions
for said roads on the day or days therein directed, or defer to
do the same until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and
eight, of which determination and day or days appointed they shall
give a previous notice of at least one month in the several papers
therein mentioned.
(a) The suspension repealed by
1805, ch. 15, as to the Baltimore and Reister's-town
turnpike road, and by 1807, ch. 144, as to the Baltimore and York-town
turnpike road. |
Levy court of Baltimore
to continue
to receive tolls on
said roads. |
38. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Baltimore county
shall continue to receive all the tolls which are or may be established
on the Reister's-town and York-town roads under existing
laws; and the several laws now in force authorising the courts of
justice to sentence criminals to labour on the public roads of Baltimore
county, and the several provisions thereof, shall be in full
force and operation until, by the provisions of this act, the property
in the said roads shall be transferred to the respective incorporated
companies as herein directed, and until provisions shall be otherwise
made by law. |
Roads, when to be
proceeded on. |
39. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the first before
mentioned
company shall not proceed to carry on the said work within two
years from the passing this act, or shall not complete the same as
far as Frederick-town in six years, as far as Middletown in two
years thereafter, and to Boonsborough in two years thereafter; and
if the two remaining companies shall not proceed to carry on the
work on their two respective roads in five years from the passage
of this law, and shall not in five years thereafter complete the same,
then the right of the said company or companies to such road or roads,
not finished as aforesaid, shall revert to the counties respectively.
See ch. 101, s. 3; June 1809, ch. 2, and 1811, ch. 202. |
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Passed Jan. 19, 1805. |
CHAP. LII.
An Act to straighten and amend the Post Road leading from Church-Hill
to Centre-Ville, in Queen-Anne's County. Lib.
JG. No. 4,
fol. 605. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
a road, |
1, BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Samuel Burgess, Richard E. Harrison, James Clayland, William
Clayton, Samuel Gold, Charles Vanderine and James Hackett, junior,
be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to survey and
lay out, in as straight a direction as the nature of the ground will admit,
the road leading from a Church-Hill to Centre-Ville; and the
said
commissioners, or a majority of them, shall execute, sign and seal, a
plot of the same, with full explanations thereof, and shall return
such plot and explanations to the justices of the levy court, on or
before the tenth day of May next, or as soon thereafter as may be,
who, on receiving such plot and explanations, shall examine the
same, and all the evidence that may be offered for and against the
said road as returned, and may reject or confirm the same, or may
direct the commissioners to alter and amend the said plot, and
when so amended, may reject or confirm the same, and when confirmed,
shall accordingly direct the said commissioners, or a majority
of them, to mark and bound the said road, not exceeding |
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