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CHAP. 90. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
commissioners, to survey and lay out into lots, all that
parcel of land lying in Montgomery county, heretofore surveyed
by Richard Thomas, and the same, when surveyed, to lay out into
lots, streets, lanes and alleys; and the said commissioners or a
majority of them, are hereby required, within the space of twelve
months after completing the said survey, and locating the same
into lots, streets, lanes and alleys, as aforesaid, under the penalty
of thirty dollars on each of the said commissioners for neglecting
this duty, to make, or cause to be made, a correct certificate and
plot of the said survey, and of the respective lots, streets, lanes
and alleys, located thereon, describing and arranging the said lots
in numerical order, and the said streets, lanes and alleys, by their
respective names, and certifying the metes and bounds of each of
the said lots, streets, lanes and alleys respectively, and to return
the same into the office of the clerk of the said county, to be by
him recorded among the land records of the said county, at the
proper cost of the said Richard Thomas, and to be securely kept
therein; and the said certificate and plot, or any official copy thereof,
or of any part thereof, shall at all times hereafter be sufficient
evidence of the said lots, streets, lanes and alleys, and of the respective
metes and bounds thereof. |
Lots to be bounded
and numbered. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a
major part of them, shall cause all the lots in the said town to be
substantially and fairly bounded and numbered, and from time to
time hereafter see that the said boundaries be kept up and preserved,
and each of the said commissioners shall be allowed the sum
of two dollars for each and every day he shall be employed, to be
paid by the said Richard Thomas. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That on the death, removal,
resignation,
or refusal to act, of any of the said commissioners, the major
part of the remaining commissioners shall appoint another to serve
in the stead of such commissioner so dying, removing, resigning,
or refusing to act. |
To be called
Brookeville. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the parcel of ground
so as aforesaid
laid out by the said Richard Thomas, and any ground which
the said commissioners shall annex, when surveyed by the said
commissioners, shall be for ever hereafter called and known by the
name od Brookeville, saving nevertheless to all persons not mentioned
in this act or their several and respective rights. |
Certain deeds to
be valid. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all deeds heretofore
executed by
the said Richard Thomas for the said land or parcel of ground,
or any portion or portions thereof, under the name and description
of lots in the town of Brookeville, or under any general description
intended to convey property therein, shall be deemed and taken
to be as good and valid as if the same had been accurately and
legally described.
By May 1813, ch. 20, a constable to
be appointed annually for the town by the
levy court. |
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Passed Dec. 24. |
CHAP. XCI.
An Act for the more effectual preservation of the breed of Wild
Deer
in Dorchester County. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 83.
This act repealed by 1810, ch. 22. |
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