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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
hereby declared, nuisances, and may be by any person taken out of
said branch or river, and destroyed as such. |
1807.
CHAP. 155. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no person or persons
shall, after
the first day of March next, put, place or make, any wear or hedge
in the channel or mouth of the said branch or river, so as to stop
the said passage of boats or vessels, or in any manner injure the
navigation thereof, under the penalty of twenty dollars for every
such offence, to be recovered before a single magistrate, in the
same manner as small debts are recovered, and appropriated, one
half to the informer or person who will sue for or prosecute to effect
for the same, the other half to the use of Dorchester county,
any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Penalty on persons
erecting them. |
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CHAP. CLVI.
An Act authorising the Court of Chancery to decree in the case therein
mentioned (c). Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 502.
A Private Act.
(c) Between Elie Williams, complainant,
and Robert Elliot's representatives,
defendants. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
CHAP. CLVII.
An Act to provide for transcribing of certain Land Records in Prince-George's
County, and for making out an Alphabet to the same.
Lib.
No. 1, fol. 503. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that some of
the lands records of Prince-George's county are in a ruinous situation,
and daily liable to destruction, and that there is no general
alphabet to the said records; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the judges of Prince-George's county court be and they are hereby
authorised and required to cause to be transcribed, by the clerk of
the said county, in good leather bound books, to which fair and regular
alphabets shall be prefixed, such records as they, or a majority
of them, may deem necessary and proper to be transcribed. |
Records may be
transcribed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said judges
are hereby authorised
and empowered to cause the said clerk to make out a general
alphabet to all the land records in the said office. |
Alphabet to land
records to be made. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said clerk
shall receive the
same fees for his services as he is by law entitled to receive for services
of a similar nature. |
Clerk's fees. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Prince-George's
county shall levy on the assessable property of said county such
sum of money as the fees for transcribing said records, and making
out a general alphabet as aforesaid, may amount to, to be collected
and paid over by the collector of said county to the clerk aforesaid. |
To be levied on
county. |
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CHAP. CLVIII.
An Act authorising the Levy Court of Washington County to appoint
Commissioners to review the Road therein mentioned.
Lib. TH.
No. 1, fol. 504. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of John Shank, of Washington county, that a road has been
laid out from Peter Baker's to Robert Hughes', by virtue of a law
passed November session, eighteen hundred and six *, and confirmed
by the levy court of said county, which is highly injurious to |
Preamble.
* Ch. 46. |
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