| NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 77.
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. LXXVII.
An Act to lay out and make public a Road therein mentioned in Cecil
county. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 230.
A Supplement, 1810, ch. 31. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS sundry respectable inhabitants of Cecil
county have
preferred a petition to this general assembly, praying, (for certain
reasons therein mentioned,) that a road may be opened and laid
out in said county; and the prayer of the petitioners appearing reasonable,
therefore, |
Commissioners appointed
to survey
and lay out a wagon
road.
Proviso. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
James Evans, sen. Samuel Ramsey, James Gerry, Thomas Richards,
sen. and Jeremiah Knight, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners for the purposes of this act, and that they, or a majority
of them, are hereby authorised and required to survey and
lay out a wagon road, not exceeding thirty feet wide, beginning on
the public road leading from the Rising Sun to Charles-town, at or
near Joseph reynolds's great gate on the west side of said road,
thence to intersect the main public road leading from the Pennsylvania
line to Criswell's Ferry on the Susquehanna River at or near
the Friends Meeting-House, in as straight a direction as the nature
of the ground will admit of, and with the smallest possible injury
to the individuals over whose land the said road mass pass; Provided
always, that the said road shall not be made to pass through the
buildings, yards, gardens or orchards, of any person, without the
consent of the owner or owners thereof.
By 1810, ch. 31, the levy court to
appoint commissioners to lay out and open
the road. |
Plot thereof to be
made and returned
to levy court,
&c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the commissioners
aforesaid, on or before the first day of April next, to
cause a plot and certificate of said road to be made, and return the
same to the levy court of Cecil county at their first sitting thereafter;
and if the levy court of said county, upon consideration of all
circumstances, shall be of opinion that said road will be of advantage
to the people of Cecil county, then and in such case the clerk
of said county shall record the said plot and certificate, whereupon
it shall and may be lawful for the levy court of said county to levy
upon the assessable property of said county, a sum of money, such
as they may deem necessary, and to appoint an overseer to open
and clear said road agreeably to the plot and certificate aforesaid;
and the said road, when opened and cleared as aforesaid, shall be,
and the same is hereby declared to be, for ever thereafter, a public
road, and shall be kept in repair as other public roads in said county. |
Damages to be ascertained.
Proviso. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, shall value and ascertain the damages that may be
sustained by each and every of the persons through whose lands
the said road may pass, by opening the same, taking into estimation
the advantages and disadvantages, if any, and the damages so ascertained
shall be levied and assessed as other county charges are,
and shall be paid over to the persons respectively through whose
lands the said road may pass; Provided nevertheless, that no money
shall be levied or assessed for the purpose of discharging the damages
aforesaid, until the said road is opened and cleared agreeably
to the directions of this act. |
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