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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. L.
An Act to alter the time of holding the County Court in Worcester
County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 246. |
1806.
CHAP. 50.
Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
for the future the county court for Worcester county shall be held
on the second Mondays in May and November, yearly, and that
all actions, pleas, process and proceedings, which are now depending
and undetermined in the said county court, or returnable to
the fourth Monday in May next, shall be returned, judged and taken
to be, in the same situation, state and condition, on the second
Monday in May next, as they would be on the fourth Monday in
May next, and the judges of the said county court shall, on the second
Monday in May next, proceed to the hearing and determining
of all actions, pleas and proceedings respectively, as the case may
require, as fully and effectually, to all intents, constructions and
purposes whatsoever, as the said judges of the said county court
could or might lawfully do on the fourth Monday in May next, any
law, usage or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
See 1805, ch. 65, s. 21. |
County court,
when to be held,
&c. |
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CHAP. LI.
An act to lay out and make public an old Road in Harford County.
Lib. No. 1, fol. 247. |
Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Harford county, that the old road
leading from near James Rigbie's, through the lands of the said
Rigbie, William Hitchcock, Robert Amos, junior, John Barton
Biddle and James Curry, to the road leading from Samuel Marshall's
to the Brick Meeting-House, has been found to be convenient
and useful to the public, and praying that the same may be
made a public road, and that commissioners be appointed to survey
and straighten the said road; and the same being reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Thomas Hope, Josias Center and Aquila Miles, be and they, or a
majority of them, are hereby authorised and empowered to lay out,
survey, mark and bound, the old road in said county beginning at
the main road near James Rigbie's in the road leading from the
Black House to the Upper Cross Roads, and running thence through
the lands of James Rigbie, William Hitchcock, Robert Amos, junior,
John Barton Biddle and James Curry, to intersect the main
road leading from Samuel Marshall's to the Brick Meeting-house,
near James Curry's lane, and to straighten the same, if in their
judgment they should deem it necessary; Provided, that the said
road shall not be laid out through the lands of any individuals,
without his, her or their consent in writing first had and obtained;
and a plot of said road, when surveyed and laid out, together with
a certificate of the courses of the same, shall be returned by the
said commissioners aforesaid to the clerk of said county, to be by
him recorded. |
Commissioners
appointed to lay
out and survey
road.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when a plot of
said road shall
be returned and recorded as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful
for the levy court of said county to levy, upon the assessable property
in said county, a sum of money, such as they shall deem necessary |
Levy for clearing
road, &c. |
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