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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
of Kent county, and that said records and papers are liable to be
damaged and lost; therefore, |
1807.
CHAP. 50. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the justices of the orphans court of
Kent county, and they are hereby empowered and required, to
cause to be transcribed and recorded, by the register of wills of
said county, in good leather bound books, to which fair and regular
alphabets shall be prefixed, such records, and all such papers
filed, in the office of the register of wills of said county, as they,
or a majority of them, in their judgment, may deem necessary and
proper to be transcribed and recorded. |
Records to be
transcribed, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said register
shall receive
the same fees for his said services as he is by law entitled to for
services of a similar nature. |
Registers fees. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Kent county
shall levy, on the assessable property of said county, such sum of
money as the fees for transcribing and recording the said records
and other papers may amount to, to be collected and paid over by
the collector of said county to the register aforesaid. |
Amount of fees
to be levied on
county. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
continue in force
until the first day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and
twelve, and no longer. |
Duration. |
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CHAP. LI.
An Act to establish a public Road in Prince-George's County, from
Lansdale's Branch to intersect a Road leading to the
Oyster-Shell
Landing, on Patuxent River. Lib. TH. No. 1,
fol. 355. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Prince-George's county,
by
their petition to this general assembly, have represented, that there
has been a private road for thirty years past leading from the public
road between Queen-Anne and Upper Marlborough, at Lansdale's
branch, down Patuxent river, which intersects a public road
near Joseph W. Clagett's, leading to the Oyster-shell landing, on
said river, and as the establishing the same as a public road would
greatly promote the convenience of the inhabitants residing near
said road, and be of public utility, they have prayed that the same
may be made a public road, and kept up and repaired under the
same regulations as other public roads in said county; which appearing
to this general assembly reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the road in Prince-George's county, leading as aforesaid from the
public road at Lansdale's branch, near Queen-Anne, until it intersects
a road leading to the Oyster-shell landing, on Patuxent
river, near Joseph W. Clagett's, as now opened and used, be and
the same is hereby declared, deemed and taken, to be a public road
for ever, and shall thereafter be kept up and repaired as other public
roads are in said county, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Road declared
public. |
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CHAP. LII.
An Act for quieting Possessions, and securing and confirming the
Estates
of Purchasers. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 356.
Supplements, 1808, ch. 73; November 1809,
ch. 164; and 1815, ch. 71. See
other acts 1715, ch. 47, and the acts there referred to; also 1807, ch.
154; December
1813, ch. 104, and 1816, ch. 119, ch. 164. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
WHEREAS deeds for conveying lands, and other real
estates,
have been executed and acknowledged by femes-covert, and doubts |
Preamble. |
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