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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. LX.
A Further Supplement to an act, (a) entitled, An act for
erecting a
Village at Choptank Bridge, in Caroline County, and
for other purposes.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 370.
(a) 1791, ch. 8. See 1803, ch. 18, and 1806, ch. 45. |
1807.
CHAP. 60.
Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of said village, that they are by an act
of assembly compelled to keep their swine and geese from running
at large in said village, but they still labour under inconveniencies
from swine and geese belonging to the inhabitants of said county
running at large within the limits of said village; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the first day of April next, the bailiff of said village
shall have full power and authority to seize and secure any
geese or swine that may be running at large within the limits
of said village, belonging to any person or persons residing within
the aforesaid county, and the same retain in his possession till the
owner or owners thereof shall pay three shillings for every hog or
half dozen geese, and a proportionable sum for every goose, so
taken up, one half for the use of the bailiff taking up and securing
the same, and the other half to be applied to the use and improvement
of said village in such manner as the commissioners of
said village, or a majority of them, shall direct; and in case the
owner or owners of such swine and geese as aforesaid, shall not,
within three days after having notice of such seizure, pay the
aforesaid sum of three shillings for every hog or half dozen geese,
and so in proportion for every goose, seized as aforesaid, to the
bailiff of said village, in such case the whole of such seizure shall
be forfeited for the use aforesaid, and it shall be lawful for the
bailiff to sell the same at public sale, after giving five days notice
of said sale, in the said village, between the hours of nine and
twelve o'clock in the forenoon of said day, and to apply the money
arising from such sale to the uses aforesaid. |
Geese or swine
running at large
within limits of
village to be seized. |
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CHAP. LXI.
A Supplement to the act, * entitled, An act to open and extend the
Road
leading from Whittingham's Bridge, at Princess-Anne-Town,
in
Somerset County, to the Plantation of George Pollitt,
deceased, until
it intersects the Road leading Salisbury to Stevens's
Ferry
at the Plantation of Joshua Morris. Lib. TH.
No. 1, fol. 370. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1808.
* 1791, ch. 12. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Jacob Morris, senior, William Pollitt, of William, John Landreth,
Josiah W. Heath and Jacob Morris, junior, be and they are hereby
appointed commissioners, or any three or more of them are
hereby authorised to open and extend the road leading from Whittingham's
bridge, at Princess-Anne-Town, in Somerset county, to
the plantation of George Pollitt, deceased, until it intersects the
main road leading from Salisbury to Stevens's ferry at the plantation
of Joshua Morris; and the said road, when so opened and extended
at the expense of the subscribers, and after the valuation
herein after directed to be made, or the damages hereby directed to
be assessed, shall be paid, or secured to be paid, to the individuals
concerned, shall be recorded among the records of Somerset county |
Commissioners
appointed to open
and extend road. |
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