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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
living on or adjacent to the said road, within three miles of
any of the said gates or turnpikes, any toll for passing the said gate
more than once in twenty-four hours. |
Tolls and duties
may be granted,
demised or to farm
let. |
21. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president
and managers
of the said turnpike road for the time being, shall and may, and
they are hereby authorised and empowered, to grant, demise, and
to farm let, to any person or persons with whom they can agree,
the tolls and duties which they, by virtue of this act or their own
by-laws, are authorised to demand and receive for passage in, upon
and along, the said road, at any such gate or turnpike, over or
upon the same, or any part of the same, for any term not exceeding
seven years, under such rents, reservations and conditions, as
the said president and managers, at any meeting of their board,
shall agree upon, which grants and demises shall have the construction,
force and effect, as other like grants and demises made between
private persons have and receive at law. |
Road hereby authorised
granted
upon certain conditions. |
22. AND, whereas it would be unjust and improper
to extend the
said turnpike so as to make the same intersect the York-town turnpike,
and by that means affect the interest of those persons who
may become stockholders in the said York-town turnpike, by drawing
off from said road any portion of the trade that now passes
down the said road into Old-town, in the city of Baltimore, and
although this legislature is aware that the powers of all and every
future legislature will be co-equal and commensurate with their own,
and that the acts of the present legislature may be repealed, changed
and abolished, by future legislatures, if in their wisdom they
may see proper so to do, yet this present legislature, wishing to declare
the grounds and principles upon which this law is passed, and
to obviate any injury or injustice to the rights of such persons as
may become proprietors of the said York-town turnpike, do for
these reasons solemnly and explicitly declare, that the turnpike
road hereby authorised and established, is granted upon the faith
and condition that the same shall not hereafter be further extended
in a direction to intersect the said York-town turnpike, and thereby
injure the rights of those persons who may be in any manner interested
therein; provided nevertheless, and it is hereby enacted
and declared, that it shall and may be lawful, with the approbation
and consent of the company of the York-town turnpike, to cause a
communication to be opened from the mill owned by Patterson and
Stricker, upon Jones's Falls, until the same shall intersect the
York-town turnpike at or near a stone bridge opposite the old mill
of Josiah Pennington, situated upon the said stream called and
known by the name of Jones's Falls. |
Company, when
to proceed on the
work, &c. |
23. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the before-mentioned
company
shall not proceed to carry on the said work within two years
from the passing of this act, and shall not complete the same in
three years thereafter, the right of the said company to the said
road shall revert to the state.
By 1808, ch. 69, the time for completing
the road is extended to 1st January,
1813. See Nov. 1812, ch. 152; road confirmed. |
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