| 1805.
CHAP. 92. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
each lot from the other, having regard to the giving to each lot the
same number it was distinguished by when first laid off, or may
since have been deeded by, and shall cause the said streets and lanes
to be named by certain names; and the said commissioners, or a
majority of them, shall have full power to adjourn from day to day
till the duties imposed by this act shall be and are fully performed.
By 1816, ch. 92, commissioners appointed
to revise and correct errors appearing
in the original plot of the town. |
Lots, when surveyed,
erected into
a town. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said lots,
when they are surveyed
and laid out by the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority
of them, shall be and are hereby erected into a town, to be called
and known by the name of Cumberland (a), and the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, are hereby directed to return a correct
certificate and plot of the said lots to the clerk of Allegany county
court, who is hereby required to record the same among the land
records of said county, and keep the original certificate and plot in
his office, and a certified copy of the original, or record, or any
part thereof, shall be conclusive evidence as to the bounds and
lines of the said town, and the lots thereof.
(a) By 1816, ch. 79, commissioners
appointed to lay off an addition to the town. |
Summonses may
be issued for witnesses
concerning
bounds of lots, &c. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners,
or a majority
of them, are hereby authorised and required, having first given fifteen
days notice of the time and place of their meeting, by public
advertisement, to issue summonses for such person or persons as
may be applied for by any of the proprietors aforesaid, which said
witnesses are hereby required to attend, under the penalty of five
dollars for every neglect or refusal, and to examine them upon
their corporal oath, or affirmation, as the case may be, touching
and concerning their knowledge of the bounds, limits and extent,
of any of the lots, streets and lanes, of the said town, and to establish
the same accordingly, and each witness attending under
any summons issued as aforesaid shall be entitled to receive fifty
cents for every day he shall so attend. |
Boundary stones
to be set up. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the proprietors
of the lots, or any part of a lot, in the said town, to provide
boundary stones, and to have them marked and set up at the
beginning of their respective lots, in the presence of the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, which shall thereafter be taken
and deemed to be the true beginning of said lots, or any of them. |
Vacancies, how
to be filled. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the commissioners
shall
die, refuse, neglect, or be rendered incapable to act, the remaining
commissioner or commissioners may appoint some other person in
the place of the person or persons who shall so die, refuse, neglect,
or be incapable to act. |
Allowance to
commissioners. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each of the said
commissioners
shall be allowed one hundred and fifty cents for each and every day
they shall attend as commissioners aforesaid, and that the surveyor
shall be allowed one hundred and seventy-five cents for each and
every day he shall be employed by the commissioners for the purpose
aforesaid. |
Expenses, how
to be paid. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all expenses incurred
in the execution
of this act, and allowed by the commissioners, shall be paid,
one half by the original proprietor or grantor, and the other half
by the present proprietors, in the proportion to the number of lots |
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