| 1804.
CHAP. 73. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
of the justices of the levy court of such county respectively where
such property may lie, or injury shall be done, or nuisance committed,
except in such counties where the same hath been already
otherwise vested. |
Certain damages
to be paid over to
sheriff. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all damages recovered
in any
suit instituted under this law, and all fines imposed and received
under
this law, shall be paid over to the sheriff of the county for the
time being where such damages are recovered, or fine imposed; to
be applied for the benefit of such county as other public monies are
applied. |
To be by him paid
over as Justices
shall direct. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each and every
sheriff shall pay
over such damages, or fine, by him received, in such manner as
the justices of the levy court of his county shall direct, and that
the bond given by him as sheriff shall be liable for, and may be put
in suit for, the recovery of the same, in the same manner as it might
be put in suit for any other public monies for which the said sheriff
may or might be responsible. |
Persons having
claims against any
county may sue. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any person having
any claim
against any county for any real property possessed by any county,
and which by this act is vested in the justices of the levy court of
such county, may commence and prosecute his action at law for the
same, by issuing a summons, directed to the justices of the levy
court, and sending with such summons a declaration or short note,
expressing the cause of action, and such person may declare against
the said justices of the levy court in the same manner as he might
against any individual for the same cause, and the attorney-general,
or his deputy, shall appear and plead thereto, and the issue
shall be made up, and the jury shall try the same, and if they find
for the plaintiff, a writ of possession shall issue for the recovery of
the possession of real property, and if damages are found for the
plaintiff, the justices of the levy court of said county where such
issue shall be tried shall, at their next sitting after the trial of such
issue, levy such sum of money so as aforesaid recovered, with costs
of suit, on the assessable property of such county, and shall cause
the same to be paid over to the said plaintiff, or his order, in the
same manner as other public charges are assessed and paid over. |
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Passed Jan. 19, 1805. |
CHAP. LXXIV.
An Act to lay out, open and change, a Road leading from Owings'
and
Paul's Mill to Elk Ridge Landing. Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 650. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of John Dorsey, Larkin Dorsey and Richard Dorsey, of Elk
Ridge, that the road leading from Owings' and Paul's mill to Elk
Ridge Landing runs through their lands, to their great injury, and
is very circuitous: And whereas a respectable number of citizens
living contiguous thereto have consented to and requested the contemplated
change and alteration; and it appearing reasonable and
proper to this general assembly to advance the interests of individuals,
when no public inconvenience would result therefrom; therefore, |
Commissioners
appointed to lay
out road. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Thomas Beale Dorsey, of Caleb, John Spurrier and Thomas Worthington,
of John, of Anne-Arundel county, or a majority of them,
be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to survey, lay |
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