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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XCII.
An Act to re-value the work done on the Baltimore and York-Town
Turnpike Road. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 84.
See 1804, ch. 51. |
1808.
CHAP. 92.
Passed Dec. 24 |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that a majority
of the commissioners heretofore appointed, pursuant to law,
to value the work done on the Baltimore and York-town turnpike
road, have valued the same considerably more than it was worth;
therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That
the levy court of Baltimore county, at their next meeting, or so
soon as may be, shall be and they are hereby authorised and directed
to appoint three persons, such as they may deem suitable,
due notice of which appointment, in writing, with the names of
the persons appointed, shall be given to the president and managers
of the said Baltimore and York-town turnpike road, and upon
such notice being given, the said president and managers shall appoint
a like number on the part of their company, within ten days
after being informed as aforesaid of the appointment by the levy
court, and shall immediately give notice thereof to the said persons
appointed by the levy court, which six commissioners, so appointed,
shall within ten days after the notice last aforesaid, meet and
proceed to choose from out the next adjoining counties to the said
road, three other persons, such as they may deem suitable, which
nine persons, after being duly qualified before some justice of the
peace, truly and impartially to estimate the value of the turnpike
improvements which have been made on the said road before the
same was taken by the said president and managers, shall compose
a commission, neither of which shall be interested in the stock of
the said road, and shall proceed to value and determine the value
of the improvements on the said road, at the time the same was
taken by, and delivered up to, the said president and managers,
and deliver a copy of their said award, within twenty days after the
day of the first meeting of said commissioners, under their respective
hands and seals, or in case of disagreement, a majority of the said
commissioners shall sign and seal the same, and deliver one such copy
thereof to the clerk of the levy court of Baltimore county, and another
copy to the president and managers of the said road each, provided
they accept to act under such appointment, under the penalty of five
hundred dollars, one half thereof to the use of the said county,
and the other half for the use of the said company, to be recovered
by action of debt; and the said road shall, upon returning and
filing of said award with the clerk of Baltimore county levy court,
become the property of the said company at the said valuation,
and no more, they first paying each commissioner, so chosen to
determine the value of said road, the sum of five dollars for each
day by him employed in viewing said road, and in making such
valuation; and if it shall so happen that any of the said commissioners
shall die, resign, or refuse to act, the justices of the levy
court, or such person as they may appoint for that purpose, and
the said company, shall forthwith proceed to fill up such vacancies;
Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorise
any member of the said levy court who may own or be interested |
Persons to be appointed
to value
improvements on
said road.
Proviso. |
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