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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
James Evans, James Simm, John Creswell, or a majority of them,
be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to survey, lay out
and mark the same, at the expense of the county, not exceeding
thirty feet in width, beginning for the same at the Pennsylvania
line, where a public road from Lancaster intersects said line,
thence by said forge, in the straightest and best direction that the
nature of the ground will admit of, to the Susquehanna, near the
tide water. |
1805.
CHAP. 17.
Commissioners
appointed to survey
and lay out
road. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall and they are hereby directed and required, to
make, or cause to be made, a plot of the said road, when surveyed
as aforesaid, and to ascertain and estimate the damages that may
be sustained by any person or persons through whose lands the
same shall pass, and shall make return of said plot, together with
a certificate of the courses of said road, and their estimate of the
damages aforesaid, to the clerk of Cecil county, to be recorded,
and when the same shall have been so returned, the said road shall
for ever thereafter be deemed a public highway, and shall be kept
in repair as other public roads in said county are; Provided always,
that the said commissioners shall not lay out the said road through
the buildings, garden, meadows or orchard, of any person or persons,
without his or their consent. |
Plot of the same
to be made—damages
to be ascertained. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Cecil county be
and they are hereby empowered and directed, at their next meeting
after the plot directed by this act shall have been returned, or
at any subsequent court, to appoint a supervisor to open and clear
said road, agreeably to said plot, in the same manner as other
roads are by law directed to be opened and cleared, and the said
supervisor shall have the same allowance as other supervisors in
said county. |
Supervisor to be
appointed. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
appointed by
this act shall have an allowance of two dollars for every day they
shall severally attend in discharge of the duties hereby imposed. |
Commissioners allowance. |
6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the levy
court of the
said county, at the time of the laying the next levy for the said
county, or at any time within six months after the said road shall
be opened and cleared as aforesaid, shall levy on the assessable
property of the said county, such sum or sums of money as they
may deem necessary for the purpose of surveying, opening, clearing
and repairing the said road, and at their said levy court next
after the return of said plot, they are hereby further authorised
and empowered to levy the damages sustained by the owners of the
land through which the said road shall pass, and also for the compensation
to the commissioners as is herein before directed to be
paid. |
Expenses of laying
out road to be
levied on county. |
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CHAP. XVIII.
An Act granting additional compensation to the Harbour-Master of
the
Port o f Baltimore. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 19. |
Passed Jan. 25, 1806. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the
compensation now granted to the harbour-master of the port of
Baltimore, is an insufficient remuneration for his attention and services
in that capacity: And whereas it is reasonable that foreign |
Preamble. |
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