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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
of said road passing over their land, and the said jury are
hereby required to consider the convenience, benefit and advantage,
(if any,) by reason of the said road passing over their land; and
the constable shall return the verdict of the said jury, or a majority
of them, under their hands and seals, to such justice or justices,
who shall award accordingly, and make return thereof to the
next levy court of said county, who are hereby authorised to levy
the damages so awarded, and costs; Provided always, that if
the
jury should be of opinion that no damages were sustained, that
then and in case the said Thomas Poteet and Thomas Poteet,
junior, shall pay all costs of such inquiry.
See 1807, ch. 57. |
1806.
CHAP. 44.
Proviso.
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CHAP. XLV.
A Further Supplement to the act (a) entitled, An act for
erecting a
Village at Choptank Bridge, in Caroline County, and
for other purposes
therein mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 239.
(a) 1791, ch. 8. See 1803, ch. 18, and 1807, ch. 60. |
Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by a petition
from sundry inhabitants in the village of Greensborough, in
Caroline county, that the quantity of one hundred acres of land,
which the commissioners were authorised to lay off for the said village
by the act to which this is a supplement, is not sufficient for
the said purpose, and likewise that it is with difficulty a bailiff can
be prevailed upon to serve; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the commissioners, appointed in virtue of the act to which this is
a supplement, shall have power, and they are hereby authorised
and empowered, to lay off, in the most contiguous manner practicable,
not exceeding two hundred acres of land, and the same,
when surveyed, to be erected into a village, as directed by the act
to which this is a supplement. |
Commissioners
to lay off land, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a
major part of them, unless it can be done in any other proper manner,
shall have full power to levy, assess and take, by distress, if
needful, from the inhabitants of said village, by even and equal
proportions, agreeable to their property held in said village, as assessed
by the county assessor, a sum not exceeding five pounds
current money, to defray the expenses of surveying the said village,
and for recording the said certificate. |
Expenses may be
levied from inhabitants. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or
a majority of them, may appoint a bailiff for the said village, who
shall be a resident of said village, and when so appointed shall, on
refusing to perform the duties thereof, be liable to a fine, not exceeding
twenty dollars; Provided nevertheless, that no person shall
be compelled to serve as bailiff more than one year in seven, unless
with his own consent he shall accept of a second appointment,
and in such case he may be compelled to serve the time for which
he may have been appointed, under a like penalty aforesaid. |
Bailiff to be appointed.
Proviso. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the bailiff of
the said village shall,
as soon as may be after his appointment as such, make oath, or
affirmation, as the case may be, before any justice of the peace of
the said county, that he will faithfully and impartially perform the
duties required of him by this act. |
To take an oath. |
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