| NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 33.
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. XXXIII.
An Act to authorise the Levy Court of Washington County to appoint
Commissioners to lay off the Road therein mentioned.
Lib. TH.
No. 2, fol. 170. |
Commissioners to
be appointed to
lay out road. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Washington county be and they are hereby authorised
and directed, to appoint five commissioners, and they or a
majority of them, are hereby authorised to survey and lay off a
road, not exceeding thirty feet wide, from Boonsborough to intersect
the Sharpsburgh road at the most direct and convenient point
near to the town of Sharpsburgh, and thence in a direct course
from the town of Sharpsburgh to captain Blacford's ferry, on the
Potomac river, in as straight a direction as in their judgment
will best comport with the public convenience, so as the same shall
not be laid out over the orchard, garden, yard or meadow, of any
person, without the consent of the owners thereof, and when surveyed
and laid out to return a plot thereof to the clerk's office of
said county, to be there filed and recorded. |
Levy authorised
for opening said
road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of said county,
when a plot of the said road as aforesaid shall be returned by the commissioners
aforesaid, is hereby empowered, at the next court thereafter,
to appoint an overseer or overseers to clear and open said
road, and to levy such sum of money as shall be considered reasonable,
for the purpose of clearing and opening said road; and
the said road, when opened and cleared, shall be deemed a public
road, and shall be kept in repair in the same manner as other public
roads in said county are. |
Allowance to commissioners
and
overseers. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
shall be entitled
to receive as a compensation the sum of two dollars for every
day they shall attend for the discharge of the duties required of
them by this act, and the said overseer or overseers shall receive
the same compensation which the overseers of public roads respectively
receive, which compensation shall be levied, collected and
paid, in the same manner that other county charges are levied,
collected and paid. |
| Damages to be assessed. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
when
they lay out said road, shall assess the damages sustained by the
individuals over whose lands the said road may be laid out, and to
return such assessment to the levy court, to be levied, collected and
paid, as other county charges are levied, collected and paid. |
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| Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
CHAP. XXXIV.
An Act to extend Aisquith's-Street, in the Eastern Precincts of
Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 171.
See Nov. 1812, ch. 118. |
Commissioners appointed
to open &
extend street. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
Daniel Conn, Harmannus Alricks, James Sterling, George Melliman
and Thomas McElderry, be and are hereby appointed
commissioners, and they, or a majority of them, are hereby empowered
to open and extend Aisquith's-street, in the eastern precincts
of Baltimore, of the width of sixty feet, and as near as may
be in a straight line until it intersects the old York road, on Blue
Ball Hill; and the said street, when so opened and extended, shall
be deemed and taken, and is hereby declared to be, a public street |
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