| 1805.
CHAP. 21.
Commissioners
appointed to lay
out road.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Thomas Montgomery, William Whiteford and James Barton, of
John, 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 the end of Patrick Smith's lane, where the
Peach Bottom road crosses the York road leading to Rock Run, to
intersect the main road leading from the Black House to the Pennsylvania
line, at Miers's mill, on Deer Creek, 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 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 of said road, which plot and certificate so returned
shall be recorded among the records and proceeding of said court. |
Levy authorised
for opening 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 for surveying and opening the said road, and to
appoint an overseer or overseers to open and clear said road agreeable
to the plot and certificate aforesaid, who shall give bond in
like manner as other overseers of public roads are directed to give
bond, and shall have the same allowance; and the said road, when
opened and cleared as aforesaid, shall be and the same is hereby
declared to be thereafter a public road, and shall be kept in repair
as other public roads in said county. |
| Commissioners allowance. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
respectively
herein before named, shall be entitled to receive, for every day they
shall severally attend to discharge the duties required by this act,
the sum of two dollars, which is hereby directed to be levied, collected
and paid, as other county charges are levied, collected and paid. |
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Passed Jan. 25, 1806. |
CHAP. XXII.
An Act authorising the laying out a Road in Worcester County from
Mitchell's Causeway to intersect the Soccum Road leading
to Broad
Creek. Lib. Th. No. 1, fol. 23. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Worcester county, that the laying
out a road from Mitchell's causeway to intersect the Soccum road
leading to Broad creek, will be of public advantage; therefore, |
Commissioners appointed
to open a
road. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, By the General Assembly of
Maryland, That
Richard Samsen, Abisha Davis, William McGriggon, Robert Mitchell
and Levi Duncan, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners |
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