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CHAP. 160. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
by any rule or regulation shall be recoverable otherwise than
before a single magistrate, and paid and applied as aforesaid; And
provided also, that such rules and regulations, before they shall
have operation and effect, shall be posted up in the most conspicuous
places in the said market-house at least four public market-days. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
CHAP. CLXI.
An Act to lay out and make public a Road in Queen-Anne's County.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 510. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Queen-Anne's county, that the convenience
of the public will be promoted by making public and
straightening the private road from Hall's Cross Roads to the public
road leading from Centreville to Routhsburg; and the same appearing
reasonable, therefore, |
Commissioners
appointed to lay
out and straighten
a road.
Provisos. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Samuel Smith, James R. Pratt, John Clark, James Booker and
Benjamin Hall, of Lawrence, or a majority of them, be and they
are hereby appointed commissioners to survey, lay out and straighten,
a road, not exceeding thirty feet in width, at the expense of the
persons willing to contribute, or who may conceive themselves interested
in opening and straightening said road, from the methodist
meeting-house, at Hall's Cross Roads, to intersect the public road
leading from Centreville to Routhsburg, and estimate and value
the damages sustained by any person or persons through whose
land the said road shall pass, taking into estimation the advantages
and disadvantages, if any; and a certificate of the same, when so
ascertained, together with a certificate of the survey of said road,
when completed and made fit for the reception of the county as a
public road, under their hands, or a majority of them, shall return
to the clerk of Queen-Anne's county court, to be by him recorded,
and shall for ever thereafter be deemed a public highway, and kept
in repair as other public roads in said county are; Provided, that
nothing herein contained shall in any manner authorise the said
commissioners to lay out or open the said road through the buildings,
yards, gardens, orchards or meadows, of any person or persons,
without his, her or their consent; And provided also, that the
said commissioners shall not proceed to open and clear said road
before the damages, if any, be paid, or secured to be paid, to the
person or persons in whose favour such damages may be adjudged. |
Jury may be summoned
to ascertain
damages. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons through
whose land the said road shall pass, or his, her or their guardian
or trustee, shall conceive himself, herself or themselves, aggrieved
by such valuation and assessment of damages by the said commissioners,
it shall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace,
on his, her or their application, to issue his warrant, under his
hand and seal, directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding
him to summon twelve disinterested men, qualified by law to serve
as jurors in the county court, to meet upon the premises on a certain
day, of which ten days notice at least shall be given to the
party or parties interested; and the said jurors, when so met, and
having each first taken an oath before some justice of the peace,
that he will, without favour, affection, partiality or prejudice, |
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