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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if upon the examination
made
by the commissioners of the branch aforesaid, the said commissioners
shall be of opinion, that any person or persons through whose
land the said ditches or drains may pass shall be injured thereby,
then the said commissioners shall proceed to ascertain the damages
that may be sustained by the cutting and making the ditches of
drains aforesaid, which damages shall be paid, or secured to be
paid, to the person or persons damaged as aforesaid, by the persons
interested in making the said ditches or drains, before they
shall proceed to cut and open the same. |
1805.
CHAP. 100.
To ascertain damages
sustained.
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CHAP. CI.
An Act to appoint Commissioners for the Regulation and Improvement
of Chester-Town, in Kent County, and for other purposes.
Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 154. |
Passed Jan. 27, 1806. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the
inhabitants of Chester-town, in Kent county, would derive great
advantages from the appointment of commissioners, with sufficient
powers for the regulation of the police of the said town; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Samuel Chew, Benjamin Chambers, James Hodges, junior, William
McKenny, Thomas Worrell, Philip F. Raisin and James Claypoole,
be and they are hereby appointed commissioners of Chester-town,
in Kent county, and shall continue in office until the time
herein after mentioned for electing commissioners of the said town. |
Commissioners appointed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
appointed by
this act, or a majority of them, shall on the fourth Monday in
May eighteen hundred and seven, giving ten days previous notice
thereof by advertisements fixed at the court-house door and other
convenient places in said town, call a meeting of the free white
male inhabitants of the said town, to elect, by ballot, seven commissioners
for the ensuing year, and the said elections shall be
made in the following manner; that is to say, the said commissioners
shall appoint some justice of the peace, residing in the said
town, judge of the said election, of which they shall give him at least
five days notice before the time of holding the said election, and
the said justice shall, on or before the day fixed for holding the
same, appoint a clerk to take down the votes for commissioners of
the said town, and the said clerk, before he shall proceed to act as
such, shall take an oath, or make affirmation, as the case may be,
before the judge of the said election, that he will, truly, faithfully
and impartially, take down the names of all such persons as shall
be permitted by the judge of the election for commissioners of
Chester-town to vote at the same, and all free white males of
twenty-one years of age and upwards, residing within Chester-town,
or the precincts thereof, one whole year next preceding
the day of election, shall be entitled to vote for commissioners of
the said town. |
Meeting of inhabitants
to be called
to elect seven commissioners. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the polls for the
election of the
said commissioners shall be opened at the court-house in said town
at the time of nine o'clock in the morning of the day appointed
for holding the same, and shall be closed at the hour of six o'clock
in the afternoon of the same day, and no vote shall be taken before
or after the said hours respectively; and after the polls shall |
Polls to be opened
for said election,
&c. |
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