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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
said land; and the justices of the levy court, and their successors,
shall be and are hereby vested with an estate in fee-simple in said
land, for the use of such county for ever. |
1806.
CHAP. 65. |
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CHAP. LXVI.
A Supplement to an act (a), entitled, An act to provide for
the appointment
of Commissioners for the regulation and improvement
of
Cambridge, in Dorchester County, and to establish and
regulate a
Market in said Town. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol.
262.
(a) 1793, ch. 66. See 1801, ch. 64, and 1815, ch. 70. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1807. |
WHEREAS the powers granted to the commissioners
of the town
of Cambridge, by the original act to which this is a supplement,
are deemed insufficient to authorise the said commissioners to make
such regulations and improvements as are absolutely necessary for
the well being and benefit of said town; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the commissioners of the town of Cambridge, whenever they, or
a majority of them, shall deem it necessary, shall have full power
and authority to make such by-laws, and laws and regulations, as
shall effect the following objects within the limits of said town, viz.
To prevent the running of horses, and the firing of guns in the
streets, the burning of chimnies in dry weather, the continuance
of unsafe chimnies, stoves or stove-pipes, and also to make, repair
and regulate, footways, to make and keep open drains or sewers,
to extend the streets or alleys, to renew the boundaries of the
streets or alleys, to remove all nuisances, and also to change the
days or hours of market, as they shall think necessary.
By 1815, ch. 70, the power of the commissioners are enlarged. |
Commissioners
authorised to
make by-laws. |
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CHAP. LXVII.
An Act for the benefit of Elizabeth Webster, of the City of Baltimore.
A Private Act. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 263. |
Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
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CHAP. LXVIII.
An Act to lay out, open and improve, the Road leading from Hancock,
in Washington County, to Cumberland, in Allegany County.
Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 264.
See Nov. 1812, ch. 114. |
Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John Johnson, of Washington county, and Thomas Pratt and
Joshua Wilson, of Allegany county, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners, for the purpose, and with full power and
authority, they, or a majority of them, to lay out a road from
Hancock, in Washington county, to Cumberland, in Allegany
county, seeking the best and nearest practicable direction the nature
of the ground will admit of. |
Commissioner appointed
to lay out
a road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or
a majority of them, shall survey, or cause to be surveyed, the road
so laid out by them, and without delay execute, sign and seal, plain
plots of the same, and make return thereof to the clerk of Allegany
county, to be recorded among land records of said county, and
when completed as herein after directed, shall be deemed a public
road, and shall be kept in repair as all other public roads are kept,
that part of said road lying in Allegany county, by the levy court |
To cause said road
to be surveyed,
and plots of the
same to be made. |
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