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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
and Sarah Coomes's, leaving the post-road
opposite Joseph
Green's and passing through the land of Henry McPherson, so
as to intersect the road leading from Port-Tobacco by Charles
Coomes's and Troy to Piscataway, then to cross the said road on
the line between the lands of Charles Coomes and George H.
Spalding, then to pass through the land of the late Walter Smith,
now the property of James R. Green, and thence through the land
of Henry Green, senior, to lay out, survey, mark and bound the
same, not exceeding twenty feet in width, and to make a plot of
said road, when so laid out, surveyed, marked and bounded, and
return such plot, under their hands and seals, to the clerk of
Charles county, to be by him recorded among the land records of
the county; and the levy court of said county, at any meeting after
the said plot shall have been recorded, are hereby authorised and
empowered to appoint an overseer or overseers to keep the said
road in repair, and the said levy court are hereby further authorised
and empowered, to levy and assess,
upon the assessable property
of said county, a sum of money in their opinion sufficient to
survey, open and clear, said road; and the said road, when surveyed,
opened and cleared, shall be a public road, and shall thereafter
be kept in repair as other public roads in said county are kept in
repair. |
1806.
CHAP. 75. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid shall
receive the sum of two dollars each for every day they shall attend
in discharge of the duties required of them by this act, and the
levy court are hereby empowered to assess and levy the same as
other public charges are assessed and levied. |
Their allowance. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said road shall
not run
through the house, yard, garden, orchard or meadow, of any person
or persons, without the consent of such person or persons. |
Road not to run
through any house,
&c. |
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CHAP. LXXVI.
An Act annulling the Marriage of James W. Dimmett and Catharine
Dimmett. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 271. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1807. |
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CHAP. LXXVII.
An Act annulling the Marriage of Benjamin Ferguson and Ruth his
Wife,
of Cecil County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 271. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1807. |
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CHAP. LXXVIII.
An Act to lay out and open a public Road in the direction herein
after
mentioned in Baltimore County.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 272. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1807. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Baltimore county, that a road laid
out from the angle of the Reister's-town turnpike road, near the
seat of Edward Johnson, in the nearest and best direction to Isaac
Green's mill, upon Jones's Fall, thence with the said Green's present
road to intersect the Falls turnpike road, and thence by the
nearest and best route to the York turnpike road, at or near the
residence of Rosseter Scott, would remove great inconvenience under
which said petitioners now labour for want of a road in the
above direction, and would greatly promote the public utility;
therefore, |
Preamble. |
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