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CHAP. 13. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
certain commissioners were appointed, to lay out a public
road from a place called Clark's Store, and generally known by the
name of Darlington, on the Rock Run road, and thence by John
Austin's mill, to intersect the main road leading from Belle-Air to
Havre-de-Grace, at or near a place called Stump's Old Fields: And
whereas it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition
of a very large number of the inhabitants of said county, that the
said road has not been laid out upon ground best calculated for the
public convenience, and praying that commissioners may be by law
appointed to review the said road; and the said prayer being reasonable,
therefore, |
Commissioners
appointed to review
road.
* 1804, ch. 94.
Proviso. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John Moores, Paca Smith and William Whiteford, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners of review, to review the road directed
to be laid out by the act, * entitled, An act to lay out, open
and clear, a road in Harford county, from a place known by the
name of Darlington, to intersect the road leading from Belle-Air
to Havre-de-Grace, and they, or a majority of them, be and they
are hereby authorised to confirm the said road, as laid out under the
direction of the above-mentioned act, or to alter the same, if in
their judgment the said road hath not been laid upon the best ground,
and in the best direction to suit the landholders over which the same
may be laid, and the public convenience; and in case the said commissioners
of review, or a majority of them, should judge it proper
to alter said road, they are hereby directed and required to lay out,.
survey, mark and bound, the said road, as altered by them, beginning
at Clark's store, on the Rock Run road, and thence by John
Austin's mill, to intersect the main road leading from Belle-Air to
Havre-de-Grace, at or near a place called Stump's Old Fields, and
shall return a plot thereof to the clerk's office of said county, to be
there recorded; Provided that the said road shall not be carried
through any building, orchard, meadow, garden or yard, without
the consent of the owner thereof. |
Overseers may
be appointed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Harford county
be and they are hereby empowered and directed, at their first meeting
after the said plot shall be returned, if the said commissioners
should judge proper to alter said road, or after the confirmation of
the road by the said commissioners as already laid out, or at any
subsequent court, by warrant under their hands and seals, to appoint
an overseer or overseers to open and clear the said road,
agreeably to the said plot, or confirmation, as the case may be, in
the same manner as other roads are by law directed to be opened
and cleared, and the said overseer or overseers shall have the same
allowance as other overseers. |
Levy authorised
for opening road. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Harford county
be and they are hereby empowered and directed, at any time after
the said road shall be confirmed by the said commissioners, or a
plot by them returned, if they should alter the same, to assess and
levy, upon the assessable property of said county, such sum of
money as they in their judgement shall deem necessary, to be applied
to the opening and clearing said road, which said sum of money
shall be collected and paid over as other county charges. |
Road when
finished, to be
kept in repair. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the road, opened
and cleared under
the provisions of this act, shall, when the same shall be finished
and completed, be amended and kept in repair in the same manner
as other public roads in Harford county. |
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