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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
by the said act, and the supplementary act thereto, to the
great injury of the inhabitants of said county and the public in general;
for remedy whereof, |
1805.
CHAP. 94. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
William Wilson, Moses Orme and John Boyd Watkins, or any
two of them, shall be and they are hereby appointed commissioners
of the part of said road which has not been opened by the
commissioners appointed by the act to which this is an additional
supplement, and the supplementary act thereto, and that they, or
any two of them be, and they are hereby authorised to alter the
location of said part of the road, and, when the direction shall be
altered, to cause a plot of said road to be made corresponding
with such location. |
Commissioners
appointed and authorised
to alter
location of part of
road. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or any
two of them, are hereby authorised and empowered to cause that
part of said road not heretofore opened, (after they shall have established
the location of the same,) to be opened, cleared and grubbed,
not exceeding thirty feet wide, and to cause a plot of that
part of the said road which may be opened by them to be recorded
among the records of Prince-George's county; and the said road,
when so recorded, shall for ever thereafter be deemed a public
road, and shall be kept in repair as other public roads in said
county. |
To cause that part
of road not heretofore
opened to
be cleared and
grubbed. |
4. AND, whereas the part of the said road
which passes through
Prince-George's county, which was opened, cleared and grubbed,
by the commissioners appointed by the act to which this is an additional
supplement, is now impassable, owing to the neglect of the
said commissioners, BE IT ENACTED, That the said part of the
said road, so opened and cleared as aforesaid, shall be hereafter
considered a public highway, and the levy court of Prince-George's
county are hereby directed to appoint a supervisor of said road,
and to assess and levy such sum of money on the assessable
property of said county as will be sufficient to defray the expense
of putting the said road in passable repair, and the said road shall
thereafter be kept in repair as other public roads in said county. |
Part opened and
cleared to be considered
a public
highway. |
5. AND, whereas the sum of one thousand dollars
hath been
heretofore levied on Prince-George's county for the purpose of
opening the said road, a part of which sum only hath been applied
by the commissioners under the act to which this is an additional
supplement, and the supplementary act thereto, to the use for
which it was intended, and a part thereof now remains in the hands
of the said commissioners, or in the hands of the collector who
collected the same; therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and
may be lawful for the commissioners appointed by this act to ask,
demand and receive, all sums of money which have been levied and
collected in Prince-George's county for the use of the said road,
which remains unexpended, either in the hands of the said commissioners,
or either of them, or of the collector who collected the
same, and if the same shall not be paid on demand, the commissioners
appointed by this act are hereby directed to cause a suit or
suits to be instituted in the name of the state of Maryland for
their use against any of the said commissioners who may have received
any part of the money levied as aforesaid, and who have |
Money which has
been levied may
be demanded by
commissioners. |
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