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CHAP. 22. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
to said county, shall have full power and authority to appoint three
commissioners to view said ground, and lay out a road, not
exceeding thirty feet wide, in the straightest direction the ground
will admit of, and have it surveyed, and plain plots made
of the same, and return said plots to the levy court of the county
aforesaid, under their hands; and said commissioners shall have
full power to bargain and contract with any person or persons over
whose land the said road may pass, or adjudge the damages any
person or persons may sustain by the said road, and make a return
of all contracts made by them for lands or damages adjudged by
them by reason of opening said road, to the levy court, under their
hands, and the said court may order the same to be recorded, or
reject the same, or any part thereof; and the levy court shall levy
on the assessable property of Washington county the expense of the
commissioners for viewing and surveying said road; and if the levy
court shall confirm the said road, agreeably to the return of said
commissioners, and cause the same to be recorded, the levy court
shall then appoint a supervisor or supervisors to clear and open
said road, not exceeding thirty feet in width, and may levy the expense
of said road upon the assessable property of Washington
county; or should the levy court be of opinion that the public utility
will not be promoted by the alteration in the direction of said road,
as contemplated by the petitioners for such alteration, in that case
the court shall have power to grant the change in the road as prayed
for, the petitioners paying all damage and expense of said alteration,
and then the levy court may confirm said road, and have it
recorded, and it shall then be under the same rules and regulations
as other roads are in Washington county. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XXIII.
An Act authorising the Levy Court of Allegany County to levy a sum
of money for the purposes therein mentioned. Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol.
217. |
Levy authorised
for building a
house for reception
of records,
&c. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the levy court of Allegany county be and they are hereby authorised
to levy a sum of money, in one, two or three years, on the assessable
property in said county, not exceeding twelve hundred dollars,
for the purpose of building and preparing a house or public
office or offices for the reception of the public papers and records
of said county, and to contract with some person or persons for
the building and completing said offices, which offices shall be built
on the public ground belonging to said county, and appropriated to
the use of the clerk of the county, and to that of the orphans court. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XXIV.
An Act for the relief of Samuel Jones, of the City of Baltimore.
A
Private Act. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 218. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XXV.
An Act to prevent the going at large of Swine in the Village of
Hillsborough
in Caroline County, and other purposes therein mentioned.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 218.
Supplements, 1807, ch. 35, and 1810, ch. 109. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of a number of persons residing in the village of Hillsborough, |
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