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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
was passed at November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine,*
appointing commissioners to lay out and open a road
leading from the gate of Richard Tilghman, the fourth, near the
manor road, across the country, so as to intersect the main road
leading from I. B. to Sudler's cross roads, near Joseph Conekins,
but upon examination of the ground it was found that a road could
not be effected in the direction intended by the above law, without
great damage and expense; it is further stated in the said petition,
that a road is now laid out and opened, by consent of parties, in
the best direction the nature of the ground would admit, nearly in
the direction, and near the same place, which was intended the
road mentioned in the said law should run; the petitioners pray
that the said road, now laid out and opened as aforesaid, be by
law made a public road; therefore, |
1804.
CHAP. 62.
* Ch. 63. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
James Hall, George Godwin and Robert Stevens, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners, to view, examine and inspect, the
aforesaid new road, (a) and if upon examination they shall find that
the said road is opened, cleared, improved and made, a good and
sufficient road, or a proper width, clear of ditches, and such as in
their opinion ought to be returned as a public road, to be thereafter
kept up at the expense of the county, then a plot of the said road,
when so made and completed as aforesaid, shall be certified under
the hands and seals of the said commissioners, and returned to the
clerk of Queen-Anne's county court, to be recorded, and shall for
ever thereafter be deemed and taken to be a public highway, and
be repaired and improved in the same manner as other public roads
in said county.
(a) See November 1812, ch. 139. |
Commissioners
appointed to view
and inspect road. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the said
commissioners
die, resign, or refuse to act, the remaining commissioners are hereby
authorised and empowered to appoint another person to act in
his place. |
Vacancies, how
to be filled. |
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CHAP. LXIII.
An Act to incorporate a Company for erecting a Bridge over Chester
River, at
Chester-Town. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 634.
Supplements
1807, ch. 167. 1808, ch. 53, and Nov. 1812, ch. 62. |
Passed Jan. 12, 1805. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Kent and Queen-Anne's counties,
that the convenience of the public would be greatly promoted by
erecting a bridge over Chester river, and praying that a law may
pass to incorporate a company for erecting a bridge over the said
river; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Robert Wright, Benjamin Chambers, Samuel Chew, William
McKinney and Richard Tilghman, the 4th, of Chester-town, and
James Brown, William Chambers, Richard E. Harrison, Charles
Vanderen and William B. Hackett, of Queen-Anne's county, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners, (a) to do and perform
the several duties herein after mentioned; that is to say, they,
or a majority of them, shall and may, on or before the first Monday
(a) By 1807, ch. 167, other commissioners
appointed instead of those who are
dead. |
Commissioners
appointed to receive
subscriptions. |
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