| 1807.
CHAP. 59.
Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. LIX.
An Act to lay out, straighten and confirm, a certain Road in Harford
County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 369.
See 1808, ch. 85. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Harford county, that the convenience
of the public will be greatly promoted by straightening and
amending the road now used, leading from Josias Carvill Hall's
land, by Charles Rigden's mill, until it intersects the road leading
to Smith's ferry at or near a place known by the name of The
Quaker Bottom; therefore, |
Commissioners
appointed to view
and lay out a road.
Proviso. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Roger Boyce, Paca Smith and Thomas Mitchell, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority of them,
are hereby authorised and empowered to view, lay out, straighten
and confirm, a certain road now leading from Josias Carvill Hall's
land, in Harford county, until it intersects the road leading to
Smith's ferry on the Susquehanna, not exceeding twenty-six feet
in width, beginning at the north end of the first lane on the road
leading from Crispin Cunningham's to the lower cross roads in
Harford county, thence to Charles Rigden's mill, thence between
the lands of Benjamin Fletcher and Charles Rigden, and thence
with the old road, straightening and amending the same until it intersects
the road leading to Smith's ferry at or near a place called
and known by the name of The Quaker Bottom, on the best
ground, and with the least possible injury to the person or persons
through whose land the same may pass; Provided, That the said
road shall not go through the yards, gardens or orchards, of any
person or persons, without his, her or their consent.
By 1808, ch. 85, so much of this act
as may affect or authorise the road to run
through the lands of Josias Carvill Hall, is repealed. |
Plot of the same
to be returned to
clerk's office, as
also damages estimated. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
if them, are hereby required to return a plot of said road to
the clerk's office of said county, there to be recorded, together
with an estimate of the damages, if any, sustained by any person
or persons through whose land the same may pass, and the levy
court of said county shall, at their first meeting after the return
of the said plot and estimate of damages, by warrant under their
hands and seals, appoint an overseer to open and clear said road,
agreeably to said plot, in the same manner as other roads are
opened and cleared, and the overseer shall have the same allowance
for his services as other overseers in said county. |
Levy directed to
open said road. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Harford county
are hereby empowered and directed to assess and levy such sum of
money as they in their judgment shall deem necessary to open and
clear such road, which said sum of money shall be collected and
paid over as other county charges. |
Road, when opened,
to be kept in
repair as other
roads in county. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said road,
when opened and
cleared under the provisions of this act, shall be amended and kept
in repair in the same manner as other public roads in said county,
and the damages, if any, sustained by any person or persons
through whose land the same may pass, shall be levied, collected
and paid, as other county charges are levied, collected and paid. |
| Commissioners allowance. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
hereby
appointed shall have an allowance of two dollars for each day they
shall attend in discharge of their duties herein required. |
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