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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
from Hager's-town to William's Port, is necessary or beneficial to
the inhabitants of said county, shall have power and authority to
appoint three commissioners to view said ground, and lay off a
road, not exceeding thirty feet wide, on the straightest direction
the ground will admit of, and have the same surveyed, and plain
plots made of the same, and return said plots to the levy court of
the county aforesaid, under their hands; and the said commissioners
shall have full power to bargain and contract with any person or
persons over whose lands the said road may pass, or adjudge the
damage any person or persons may sustain by the said road, and
make a return of all contracts by them made for land, or damages
adjudged by them, by reason of opening said road, to the levy court,
under their hands, and the said court may order the same to be recorded,
or reject the same, or any part thereof; and the levy court
shall levy on the assessable property of Washington county the expense
of the commissioners for viewing and surveying said road; and
if the levy court shall confirm the said road agreeable to the return of
the commissioners, and cause the same to be recorded, the levy
court shall then appoint a supervisor or supervisors to clear and
open said road, not exceeding thirty feet in width, and may levy
the expense of said road upon the assessable property of Washington
county; or should the levy court be of opinion that said
road is not of public utility, but is only calculated to serve private
individuals, in that case the court shall grant said road, on the application
of petitioners, paying all damage and expense of said
road; and if the levy court confirms said road, and have it recorded,
it shall then be under the same rules and regulations as other
roads are in Washington county. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 18. |
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CHAP. XIX.
An Act for the benefit of Lucas Shock, of Washington County.
Lib.
TH. No. 2, fol. 160. A Private Act. |
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
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CHAP. XX.
An Act to lay out and open a Road from the lower end of William
Durne's Lane, to intersect the public Road leading from
John
Orme's Plantation to Montgomery Court-House at or near
the
Union Mills. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 160.
A Supplement, ch. 180. |
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Montgomery county
have, by
petition to this general assembly, prayed that a road may be opened
from the lower end of William Durne's lane, to intersect the
public road leading from John Orme's plantation to Montgomery
court-house at or near the Union Mills; and the same appearing
reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Richard West, Elijah Vears and Basil Darby, or any two of them,
be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to survey, lay out
and open a road, from the lower end of William Darne's lane,
nearly as the road now runs, to a lane between John Golden's and
Samuel Owings's plantation, and with said lane to the end thereof
to a stone, thence with the lines of the lands of Charles Gassaway
and the heirs of Samuel Clagett to a stone, thence with or near the
lines of the lands of Samuel Clagett's heirs to a stone, thence to |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
a road. |
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