| 1808.
CHAP. 92. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
in the stock of the said turnpike company to have any
voice or vote in the appointment of the said commissioners. |
President to issue
stock as directed
by former act. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That upon the president
of said company
receiving the valuation of said commissioners he shall issue
stock to the said levy court, in the same manner as is directed by
the act by which said company was incorporated. |
| Repeal. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any act or law
repugnant to, or
inconsistent with, the foregoing, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
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Passed Dec. 24. |
CHAP. XCIII.
An Act to lay out and make a public Road in Worcester County.
Lib.
TH. No. 2, fol. 86. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
road. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Zadock Sturgiss, Joshua Fleming, Robert J. H. Handy, John Williams
and Anthony Bacon, or a majority of them, be commissioners,
and are hereby directed and authorised, to lay out a public road,
beginning at some good landing place on a bay, called Parker's
Bay, in said county, thence running until it intersects the post-road
leading from Horn-town, in Virginia, to Snow-hill, at or near Sandy-hill,
but not so as to pass through any garden, meadow or orchard,
without the consent of the proprietor or proprietors. |
Earth adjoining
the marsh to be
taken to make a
causeway. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or
a majority of them, are hereby authorised and directed to lay off,
adjoining the marsh through which said road must pass, a piece of
high land, from whence to take earth to make a causeway over
said marsh. |
| Damages to be ascertained. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners,
or a majority
of them, be and they are hereby authorised and directed to ascertain
and value what damages may be sustained by any person or
persons through whose lands the said road may pass, by causewaying,
opening and clearing the same, and the said valuation shall
be made and paid, or secured to be paid, before the commissioners
shall proceed to open and clear the same; and in case any proprietor
or proprietors shall conceive him, her or themselves, aggrieved
by the valuation of the said commissioners, it shall and may be lawful
for the commissioners, or a majority of them, on the application
of any person interested, to issue their warrant, under their
hands and seals, to the constable of the hundred where such lands
may be, commanding him to summon twelve freeholders, not interested
in the said lands, to appear on a day, by them appointed, on
the said lands, at which time and place such freeholders, so summoned,
shall respectively appear before the said commissioners, and
take the following oath, to wit: " I, A. B. do swear, that I will
honestly,
without prejudice or partiality, value the damages and injury
that may be sustained by opening a road through the lands of
_____, in pursuance of this act of assembly;" and shall return an
inquisition of such damages, so assessed, to the clerk of Worcester
county court; and the damages so assessed shall be conclusive. |
Persons interested
to pay damages. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the persons who
may conceive
themselves interested or benefitted by the aforesaid road, are hereby
required to pay, or secure to be paid, into the hands of the commissioners
aforesaid, or some one of them, for the use of the person or
persons in whose favour such valuation may be made, previous to |
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