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CHAP. 57. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and sealed with their corporate seal; and all deeds by
them for the conveyance of any lands and tenements of the corporation,
which by the law of the land ought to be acknowledged and
recorded, shall be signed and sealed as aforesaid, and shall also be
acknowledged in due form by the president, as such, in behalf of
the corporation; and all acts or deeds of the said body corporate,
so authenticated, shall be valid and effectual in law. |
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Passed Dec. 19. |
CHAP. LVIII.
An Act for the improvement of the public Roads in Kent County.
Lib. JG. No. 3, fol. 438. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the present law relating to the public roads
in Kent
county has been found to bear very unequally on the citizens thereof,
and inadequate to the purposes for which it was intended;
therefore, |
Levy authorised
for repairing
roads. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court for Kent county, or a majority of
them, at their annual meeting at the time for holding their levy
court at the court-house in Chester-town, shall levy by equal assessment
on the assessable property within the said county, a sum
of money not exceeding forty cents on every hundred pounds of
assessable property, to be collected as other county taxes, and paid
to the justices of the levy court, or to their order, and shall be applied
towards straightening, amending and keeping in repair, the
public roads in the said county; and the said justices, or a majority
of them, shall have full power and authority to appropriate the
funds arising from the said tax to the public roads in the said county,
and shall apportion the same in just proportions among all the
public roads in the said county, regarding the situation and quantity
of labour necessary for the improvement of such roads. |
Levy court to describe
and record
roads--Supervisors
to be appointed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court for
the county aforesaid, or a majority of them, when so met together
as aforesaid, shall be and they are hereby authorised and required
to describe, ascertain, and distinctly record in a well-bound book
to be provided by them for that purpose, the several and respective
public roads in the said county, and to nominate and appoint, by
warrant under the hand of the clerk and seal of his office, capable
and proper persons as supervisors of the several and respective
roads aforesaid, according to the number and divisions of the said
roads, as the same shall be ascertained upon their records; and
that the said justices, or a majority of them, may adjourn from
day to day until the said roads shall be duly ascertained, and supervisors
appointed as aforesaid; and every supervisor so appointed
shall give bond to the state of Maryland, with such security as
shall be approved of by the said justices, in such sum or penalty as
the said justices shall require, for the performance of his duty. |
Vacancies, how to
be filled. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any supervisor,
to be appointed
in virtue of this act, shall refuse to act, or remove out of
the district, become disqualified, or die, it shall and may be lawful
for any two of the neighbouring justices of the peace to supply
every vacancy so happening, by the appointment of another person,
who shall give bond as aforesaid, with such security, and in such
penalty, as shall be approved of by the aforesaid justices of the
peace, and they shall certify every such appointment, under their |
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