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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
persons in whose favour the valuation shall be made as aforesaid,
shall be entitled to receive the same from the petitioners, before the
said commissioners, or a majority of them, may open and amend
the said road through such person or persons land; And provided,
the said road shall not pass through any house, yard, garden, orchard
or meadow, unless with the consent of the owner or owners
thereof. |
1806.
CHAP 47. |
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CHAP. XLVIII.
An Act to authorise and empower the Commissioners of the City of
Baltimore to alter and extend the Streets therein mentioned.
Lib.
No. 1, fol. 244. |
Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
WHEREAS Daniel Bowley, of the county of Baltimore,
hath
represented to this general assembly, that he, and a certain Thomas
Yates, were heretofore seized and possessed of all the lots of
ground which bind on, and are entitled to the privileges and extension
into, the water, in that part of the city of Baltimore called
Philpot's Addition, except lot number four hundred and forty-one;
that when the said addition was surveyed and laid out into lots and
streets, the streets thereof were not made to run parallel with the
streets in the eastern and western parts of the said city, but were
opened and located in a different direction; that the port wardens
of the said city have heretofore granted to the said Daniel Bowley
and Thomas Yates a licence to improve and extend the said water
lots into the navigable water; that in pursuance of such permission
they had wharfed in, and converted into firm ground, part of the
land covered with tide water, adjoining the said water lots,
and had laid out the same into lots, streets and alleys, so as to connect
Fell's Point with the western parts of the city, by spacious
streets, extended in a straight direction; that it would contribute to
the convenience of those owners of lots in that part of the city, if
Granby and Exeter-streets were extended in direct lines to intersect
Wilkes-street, and if President-street was extended through
the said water lots; and therefore he prayed that a law might pass
to alter and extend the said street, to which the trustees of the said
Thomas Yates have assented; |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the city commissioners of the city of Baltimore, or a majority of
them, be and they are hereby authorised and directed to lay out, open
and extend, Granby-street, from the south-west corner of lot number
four hundred and thirty-one, and the south-east corner of lot
number four hundred and twenty-nine, in a straight direction, to
intersect Wilkes-street, and also to lay out, open and extend, Exeter-street,
from where it terminates on the original addition, in a
south direction, parallel to Harford-street, to intersect Wilkes-street
aforesaid, and that the same, when so extended and opened,
shall be deemed, taken and considered, as parts of the highways
of the said city, and be under the control and direction of the corporation
of the said city, in like manner as all other public streets. |
Granby-street to
be laid out and
extended. |
3. BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall have full power and authority, and they are hereby
directed, to shut up that part of Granby-street, from the original
lots numbers four hundred and thirty-one and four hundred and
twenty-nine, to the termination of the said street at the corner of |
Part of said street
may be shut up. |
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