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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. LXXI.
An Act authorising the Levy Court of Baltimore County to levy a
sum
of money on the assessable property of said County for
the purpose
therein mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 266. |
1806.
CHAP. 71.
Passed Jan. 4, 1807.
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WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, by
the petition of
sundry inhabitants of Baltimore county, that they have experienced
the greatest inconvenience, in consequence of the decayed state of
the bridge over the Falls of Gunpowder, on the road leading from
Baltimore to Harford county, by way of Gittings's mill; and it
having been made appear that the sum heretofore appropriated for
rebuilding the same is insufficient for the accomplishment of that desirable
object; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Baltimore county, or a majority of them, be and
they are hereby authorised and empowered, at their next levy laying
court, to assess and levy, on the assessable property of said
county, a sum of money, not exceeding five hundred dollars, sufficient
for the rebuilding the bridge over the Falls of Gunpowder,
on the road leading from Baltimore to Harford county, by the way
of Gittings's mills, in a safe substantial manner, and the said sum
shall be collected in the same manner that other county charges are
collected, any law, usage or custom, repugnant to, or inconsistent
with, the provisions of act, to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Levy authorised
for rebuilding
bridge over Falls
of Gunpowder. |
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CHAP. LXXII.
An Act to open a road from the Bald Friar Ferry, on Susquehanna
River, to the Pennsylvania line.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 267. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1807. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Cecil county, that a public road from
the Bald Friar Ferry, to the Borough of Lancaster, would be of
great public utility, and praying that the private road from the
Bald Friar Hill to the Pennsylvania line may be straightened and
made a public road; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
James Evans, James Semmes, John Creswell, or a majority of
them, are hereby authorised and required to survey, lay out and
mark, a road, on or near the private road, not exceeding thirty
feet in width, in the straightest and best direction that the nature
of the ground will admit, from the public road at the Bald Friar
Hill to that part of the Pennsylvania line where the same passes
through the lands late of Alexander Ewing, deceased, and assess
and value the damages that each and every person will sustain by
reason of the said road passing through his, her or their land; and
a certificate of such survey, and of the valuation aforesaid, shall
be returned to the clerk of Cecil county, to be by him recorded,
and the said road shall for ever thereafter be deemed and taken to
be a public highway. |
Commissioners
appointed to survey
and lay out
road. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Cecil county, if
they should be of opinion that the said road will be of public benefit
and utility, be and they are hereby authorised and required to
cause the said road to be made and kept in repair as other public
roads in said county are, and the damages so as aforesaid ascertained,
together with a reasonable compensation to the commissioners,
to be levied on the assessable property of the county aforesaid, |
To be kept in repair
as other public
roads in county. |
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