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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
in the same, except two acres of said land, which two acres shall
include within their bounds the church, and burial-ground attached
to the same, in such manner, and for such estate therein, as conveyances
may be made by any individual for any like property;
Provided, that no sale, lease, or other disposition of the said
property,
or any part thereof, shall be valid, unless the same shall be
made with the consent and approbation of a majority of the trustees
of the said congregation, agreeably to the rules and constitution
of said church. |
1806.
CHAP. 53.
Proviso. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
or a majority
of them, are hereby authorised and directed to appropriate the monies
arising from any sale or sales which may be made by them by
virtue of the provisions of this act, either to the building of a new
church, or to the repair of the old one, or to any other purpose relative
to the said congregation, which they, or a majority of them,
shall deem right and proper. |
And appropriate
monies, &c. |
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CHAP. LIV.
An Act to lay out and open a certain Road in Cecil County.
Lib. TH.
No. 1, fol. 249. |
Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Cecil county, that the convenience
of the public will be greatly promoted by straightening and amending
the private road, now opened and used, leading from that part
of Stone Run where a public road from the state of Pennsylvania to
the tide water of the Chesapeake crosses said run, at or near the
Octorara creek, until it intersects the public road leading from
Christiana to the Bald Friar Ferry, on Susquehanna river, and by
making the same a public road; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
William Johnson, Robert Porter and James Maxwell, be, and
they, or a majority of them, are hereby appointed commissioners
to survey, lay out and mark, a road, not exceeding thirty feet in
width, in the straightest and best direction that the nature of the
ground will admit of, from that part of Stone Run where the public
road aforesaid crosses said run, until it intersects the public
road leading from Christiana to the Bald Friar Ferry aforesaid, at
that point where the private road aforesaid intersects the same, and
estimate and value the damages sustained by any person or persons
through whose land the said road shall pass, taking into estimation
the advantages and disadvantages, if any, and a certificate of the
same when so ascertained, together with a certificate of the survey
of said road, under their hands, or a majority of them, shall return
to the clerk of Cecil county, to be by him recorded, and shall
for ever thereafter be deemed and taken to be a public highway,
and kept in repairs as other public roads in said county. |
Commissioners
appointed to survey
and lay out
road. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Cecil county be
and they are hereby authorised and required, at the time of laying
the next levy in said county, if the said court should be of opinion
that the said road would be of public benefit and utility, to levy,
on the assessable property of the county aforesaid, the sum necessary
to clear and make said road passable, also the amount of damages
so ascertained and certified as aforesaid, together with a
reasonable compensation for the commissioners who perform the |
Levy authorised
to clear road and
pay damages. |
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