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BENJAMIN OGLE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
whereas three of the jurors summoned in virtue of the act to which
this is a supplement are holders of lots on South-street, and thereby
may be interested in the operation of this act; |
1800.
CHAP. 56. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the sheriff of Baltimore county, having given at least ten days notice
in one of the news-papers of the city of Baltimore, shall, at
any time before the first Monday of February next, summon twelve
freeholders, inhabitants of the said city, not interested in the premises,
who being first sworn to do and perform all the duties imposed
upon them by this act to the best of their skill and knowledge,
shall proceed to assess and impose the amount of the damages
sustained by each and every person from the opening of the said
Second-street, as ascertained by the proceedings of the jury had
and done under the act to which this is a supplement, and recorded
in the register's office of the city of Baltimore, upon all and every
person or persons holding houses or lots in and upon Second-street,
between South-street and Frederick-street, and upon all and every
other person or persons holding houses or lots on South-street, who
in their judgment and conscience will or may derive any particular
benefit by the opening of said Second-street, and the said jury are
hereby authorised and directed to ascertain and determine the sum
of money which each and every such person shall pay, and to whom
the same shall be paid. |
Freeholders to be
summoned to assess
damages. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the jury aforesaid
shall make a
return of their proceedings had in virtue of this act, under their
hands and seals, into the register's office of the city of Baltimore,
and the same, or a copy thereof duly attested under the hand of
the said register and the corporate seal of the city, shall be received
as evidence in any court of law or equity. |
A return of their
proceedings to be
made. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sum or sums
of money imposed
and assessed in virtue of this act shall be a lien upon and
bind the property of such person or persons which shall by the jury
aforesaid be deemed and declared to be benefited by the opening of
said Second-street. |
Sums imposed to
be a lien on property. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every person or
persons whose
property the jury under the act to which this is a supplement
have declared will sustain an injury by the opening of Second-street,
shall have respectively all the rights, remedies, and means of recovery,
in relation to the person or persons upon whom the price of
such injury shall be imposed and assessed in virtue of this act, and
be subjected to all the inconveniencies and obligations to which they
were respectively entitled and subjected in virtue of the act to
which this is a supplement. |
Persons to have
certain rights. |
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CHAP. LVII.
An Act for incorporating the Methodist Episcopal Churches, known
by
the name of the Light-Street and Old-Town Methodist
Churches, in
the City of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland.
Lib. JG. No. 3,
fol. 434. |
Passed Dec. 19. |
WHEREAS application hath been made to this general
assembly
for an act of incorporation, in behalf of the congregations of the
Methodist Episcopal Churches of the city of Baltimore, which may
enable them to manage with convenience their temporal concerns; |
Preamble. |
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