| 1807.
CHAP. 17. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
expenses incurred in said lottery, shall, within one year from the
time of the drawing of said lottery, apply the money raised by such
lottery for the purposes aforesaid. |
Bond to be lodged
in clerk's office. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the said
commissioners, or a majority of them, before they act as such, to
lodge the bond made and entered into as aforesaid in the office of
the clerk of Washington county court, there to be recorded; and
upon such bond, or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be
instituted against the obligors therein, or any of them, or their legal
representatives, for any breach or non-compliance with the condition
of the same. |
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Passed Jan. 15, 1808. |
CHAP. XVIII.
An Act to lay out and make a public Road in Baltimore County.
Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 314. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by a number
of inhabitants of North and Mine-Run Hundreds, in Baltimore
county, that they labour under great inconvenience for
want of a public road from the Pennsylvania line, at Jesse Low's
lane, to Benedict Hurst's on the public road leading to the York
turnpike; therefore, |
Commissioners
appointed to lay
out a road. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Jesse Oshell, John Freeland and Thomas Talbot, or a majority of
them, be commissioners, and are hereby directed and authorised to
lay out a public road, beginning at the end of Jesse Low's lane, at
or near the Pennsylvania line, along with the aforesaid line, from
thence to John Freeland's, from thence to Peter Shock's mill, from
thence to intersect the great public road, at or near Benedict
Hurst's tavern, leading to the York turnpike, but not so as to pass
through any garden, meadow or orchard, without the consent of
the proprietor or proprietors thereof. |
| Damages to be ascertained. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or
a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised and directed,
to ascertain and value what damages may be sustained by any
person or persons through whose lands the said road may pass, by
opening and clearing the same, and the said valuation shall be
made and paid, or secured to be paid, before the commissioners
shall proceed to open and clear the same; and in case any proprietor
or proprietors shall conceive him, her or themselves, aggrieved
by the valuation of the said commissioners, it shall and may be
lawful for the said commissioners, or a majority of them, on the
application of any person interested, to issue their warrant, under
their hands and seals, to the constable of the hundred where such
lands may be, commanding him to summon twelve freeholders, not
interested in the said lands, to appear on a day by them appointed
on the said lands; at which time and place such freeholders, so
summoned, shall respectively appear before the said commissioners,
and take the following oath, to wit: " I, _____ _____, do swear,
that
" I will honestly, without prejudice or partiality, value the damages
" and injury that may be sustained by opening a road through the
" lands of _____ _____, in pursuance of this act of assembly," and
shall return an inquisition of such damages, so assessed, to the
clerk of Baltimore county court; and the damages so assessed shall
be conclusive. |
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