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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
and to establish and regulate a market at said town, passed at November
session, seventeen hundred and ninety, * be and the same
is hereby repealed, and the money which shall be paid to the sheriff
of Talbot county by any person or persons for licences hereafter
granted to retail spirituous liquors within the limits of said town,
shall be hereafter paid by the said sheriff to the treasurer of the
eastern shore, to remain in the treasury of said shore, subject to
the appropriation of the legislature. |
1804.
CHAP. 93.
* Ch. 14. |
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CHAP. XCIV.
An Act to lay out, open and clear, a Road in Harford County, from
a
place known by the name of Darlington, to intersect
the Road leading
from Belle-Air to Havre-de-Grace. Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 689.
Supplement 1805, ch. 58. See 1806, ch. 13. |
Passed Jan. 19, 1805. |
WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Harford county, by
their petition
to this general assembly have prayed, that a public road may
be laid out, opened and cleared, from a place called Clarke's Store,
generally known by the name of Darlington, on the Rock Run
road, thence by Austin's mill to intersect the main road leading
from Belle-Air to Havre-de-Grace, near a place called Stump's
Old Fields, and that the same will be a greater public convenience;
and the prayer of said petition being considered reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, By the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John Cooley, Thomas Jeffrey and John Quarls, of Harford county,
or a majority of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners
to survey, lay out and open, a road in said county, from a
place called Clarke's Store, and generally known by the name od
Darlington, on the Rock Run road, and thence by John Austin's
mill to intersect the main road leading from Belle-Air to Havre-de-Grace,
at or near a place called Stump's Old Fields, and in as
straight a direction as the nature of the ground will admit, and
with as little injury to the individuals over whose lands the same
may pass, as may comport with the public convenience; and provided,
that the said road shall not be laid out through the garden,
yard, meadow or orchard, of any individual, without his or her
consent in writing first had and obtained; and a plot of said road,
when surveyed and laid out, together with a certificate of the
courses of the same, shall be returned by the commissioners aforesaid
to the levy court, who are hereby authorised and empowered
to confirm, or for sufficient cause reject, the same; and in case the
same shall be rejected as aforesaid, the said court are hereby further
authorised to direct the said commissioners herein named again
to survey and lay out said road as aforesaid, and return a plot
thereof with a certificate of the courses as aforesaid, and so from time
to time till a plot shall be returned which shall be confirmed by said
court, with the certificate of the courses od said road, shall be recorded
among the records and proceedings of said court. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
a road. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the plot of
said road shall
have been confirmed and recorded as aforesaid, it shall and may be
lawful for the levy court of said county to levy upon the assessable
property in said county a sum of money, such as they shall deem
necessary under all circumstances, and to appoint an overseer or
overseers to open and clear said road, agreeably to the plot and
certificate aforesaid, who shall give bond in like manner as other |
Levy authorised—
overseer to be appointed. |
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