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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
digging a well, and that they contract with some person or persons
for the digging, completing and finishing the same, making
choice of such spot on the public grounds adjacent to the court-house
as in their judgment will be most suitable and proper. |
1804.
CHAP. 81. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act, and the
original to
which this is a supplement, shall be in force until the thirtieth day
of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, and
to the end of the next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter.
See note under 1801, ch. 26, s. 8. |
Duration. |
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CHAP. LXXXII.
An Act to erect a Town in Talbot County, by the name of Saint Michael's
and to appoint Commissioners.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 661. |
Passed Jan. 19, 1805. |
WHEREAS it hath been set forth by the petition of
sundry inhabitants
of Talbot county, that the village now known by the name of
Saint-Michael's, in the said county, has considerably increased in
the number of houses and inhabitants, and have prayed that the
said village may be erected into a town, according to the ancient
metes and bounds thereof, and of the land adjoining thereto, as laid
down in a plot annexed to said petition; and the prayer of the petitioners
appearing reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Robert Dodson, John Dourgan, James Bordley, Impey Dawson and
Thomas L. Haddaway, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners,
who, or a majority of them, shall and are authorised and
directed to resurvey the grounds and lots within the village of Saint
Michael's, in Talbot county, and to perpetuate the lines and bounds
thereof, that is to say, as well of those lands or grounds laid off by
a certain James Braddock, on or about the year seventeen hundred
and seventy-eight, for the purposes of a town, by the name of Saint
Michael's, as aforesaid, or those grounds or lots which were laid
off or sold by a certain John Thompson, (heir and representative
of the aforesaid Braddock,) on or about the year seventeen hundred
and eighty-three, for the same purpose; and the said commissioners
are hereby directed to resurvey and establish, by stone boundaries,
or such other as they shall consider good and durable, all lots,
squares, streets, lanes, ways and alleys, such distinguishing
names as they may think proper; and the commissioners are hereby
further authorised and directed to lay off into lots, streets, ways,
lanes and alleys, such other grounds or lands conceded for such
purposes as shall be contained within the limits herein after prescribed,
and the same to number and name as aforesaid. |
Commissioners appointed
to resurvey
lots of village. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the bounds and
limits of the
said town shall be as follows, viz. Beginning at a stone set down
by the side of a cove of Saint-Michael's river, and running south,
sixty-six degrees fifteen minutes west, to a branch of Broad creek,
then up and with the said Broad creek to the land of Samuel Harrison,
then therewith north, eighty-one degrees east, to the main
road, then northerly, with said main road, to the land of Robert
Richardson's heirs, then therewith to the waters of Saint-Michael's |
Limits ascertained. |
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