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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
Stafford mills, known by the name of York Road: And whereas it
is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of a number
of the inhabitants of said county, that the said road has not
been laid out upon ground best calculated for the public convenience,
and praying that commissioners may be appointed to review
the said road; and the prayer thereof being reasonable, therefore, |
1807.
CHAP. 29. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Josiah Johnson, Thomas Montgomery and James Deaver, be and
they are hereby appointed commissioners to review the said road
directed to be laid out by the act, entitled, An act to lay out, open
and clear, a road in Harford county, known by the name of The
York Road, from the east end of a lane known by the name of Bell
Farm Lane to the cross road where the Peach Bottom road crosses
the aforesaid road leading from the Pennsylvania line to Stafford
mills, and they, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised
and directed to review, survey, mark and bound, the same,
and to make such alterations as they in their judgment may think
proper, and shall return a plot of the same to the clerk's office of
said county, to be there recorded. |
Commissioners appointed
to review
a road. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the landholders
over whose land
the said road may pass shall not be entitled to any damages for the
same. |
Damages not allowed
to persons
over whose land
road passes. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Harford county
be and thereby empowered and directed, at their first meeting
after the said plot shall be returned, if the said commissioners
shall judge proper to alter the said road, to appoint an overseer to
open and clear the said road agreeable to the said plot, and to levy
such sum as the levy court shall think proper to clear the same as
aforesaid; and the overseer shall have the same allowance as other
overseers in said county. |
Overseer to be
appointed. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
of review hereby
appointed, shall have an allowance of two dollars for each day
they shall attend in the discharge of their duties herein imposed,
which is hereby directed to be levied, collected and paid over, as
other county charges are levied, collected and paid; Provided, that
there shall be no proceedings under or by virtue of this act until
all and every of the landholders, over whose land the said road is
or may be contemplated to pass or run, shall have signified, in
writing, to the levy court of said county, their assent thereto. |
Commissioners
allowance.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. XXX.
An Act annulling the Marriage of Brittania Marshall, of Dorchester
County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 333. |
Passed Jan. 15, 1808. |
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CHAP. XXXI.
An Act to extend Centre-Street in the Northern Precincts of the
City
of Baltimore, and to build a Bridge therein across
Jones's Falls.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 333.
Supplements, 1808, ch. 117; June 1809, ch. 3. |
Passed Jan. 15, 1808. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by a number
of inhabitants in the city and county of Baltimore, that
the extension of Centre-street in the northern precincts of the city
of Baltimore, and the erection of a bridge in said street across
Jones's Falls, would facilitate the intercourse of the inhabitants of |
Preamble. |
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