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EDWARD LLOYD ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
for the purpose of opening and clearing the aforesaid
road, and the same shall be deemed thereafter a public road, and
kept in repair as other public roads in said county are kept in repair. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 55. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall be
entitled to receive as a compensation the sum of two dollars for
each and every day they shall attend in discharge of the duties required
of them by this act. |
Commissioners
compensation. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the damages, if
any, sustained
by the individuals over whose land the said road herein directed to
be laid out and straightened may run, shall be ascertained according
to the provisions contained in the eleventh section of an act *,
entitled, An act to straighten and amend the public roads in Harford
county, and for other purposes, and the same, when ascertained
in manner aforesaid, shall be levied, collected and paid, as other
county charges are levied, collected and paid. |
Damages to be ascertained.
* 1791, ch. 70. |
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CHAP. LVI.
An Act to empower the Inhabitants of the Town of Havre-de-Grace
to elect the Commissioners thereof. Lib. TH.
No. 2, fol. 198.
A Supplement, 1811, ch. 21. See 1802, ch. 83. |
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
all the inhabitants of the town of Havre-de-Grace, entitled by law
to vote for delegates to the general assembly, shall meet in said
town, at such place as may hereafter be appointed, and elect by
ballot five sensible, wise and discreet persons, to act as commissioners
of the town, who, when elected as herein prescribed, shall have
the same powers as are by law conferred on the present commissioners. |
Inhabitants to
appoint commissioners
of the town. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
of the town of
Havre-de-Grace shall call a meeting of the people of said town of
the first Monday in April next (a), by notice of the time and place,
set up at three of the most public places in the town five days previous
to said meeting, who, when thus assembled, shall choose
three discreet persons to act as judges to hold an election in pursuance
of this law, and the judges thus appointed shall conduct the
same conformably to the regulations prescribed by the act to reduce
into one the several acts of assembly respecting elections, and to
regulate the same, passed at November session, eighteen hundred
and five †.
(a) By 1811, ch. 21, the people
are to assemble on the first Monday in January
annually, and appoint judges, who are to hold an election for commissioners. |
Meeting of the
people to be called
to choose judges
of election.
† Ch. 97. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk of the
commissioners
shall provide, or cause to be provided, a box for receiving the ballots,
and a book for the purpose of entering the voters names, the
expenses whereof shall be paid by a tax to be levied on the assessable
property of the inhabitants of the town of Havre-de-Grace. |
Ballot box to be
procured. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the election shall
commence at
three o'clock in the afternoon, and continue without adjournment,
and be closed at six o'clock in the evening, and the five persons having
the greatest number of votes shall be by the judges declared to be
the commissioners of the town of Havre-de-Grace for the ensuing
year, and the same shall be recorded in the books of the commissioners. |
Election to commence
at 3 o'clock
P. M. and close at
six. |
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