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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall be
entitled to receive a compensation for their attendance and services,
in discharge of their duties of this act, not exceeding one dollar
and fifty cents, to be ascertained by the levy court, which is hereby
directed to be levied, collected and paid, as other county charges
are levied, collected and paid. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 77.
Allowance to commissioners. |
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CHAP. LXXVIII.
An Act to open a Road to Swan Creek, in Harford County, and to
make a Public Landing Place thereat. Lib.
TH. No. 2, fol. 232. |
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Paca Smith, Jacob Michael and James McClasky, be and they,
or a majority of them, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out
a road in Harford county, not exceeding two perches in width, beginning
for the same near the place where the road leading from
Boothby's Hill intersects the road leading from Josias C. Hall's
cross roads to Bush River Neck, thence to the division line of two
tracts of land called The Glebe and Sidney Park, thence bounding
on the division line to the south to Swan creek. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
a road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or
a majority of them, are hereby authorised and directed to lay out
a quantity of ground, not exceeding three fourths of an acre, for
a public landing place, at the end of said road, bounding on the
same and the waters of Swan creek, in such manner as they may
think most conducive to the public benefit; and the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, are hereby required to return a plot of
said road and landing place to the clerk's office of Harford county,
there to be recorded, together with an estimate of the damages, if
any, sustained by any person or persons whose land may be thus
taken, laid out and appropriated, for a road and public landing
place, and the levy court of said county shall, at their next meeting
after the return of said plot and estimate of damages, if any,
by warrant under their hand and seals, appoint an overseer to open
and clear said road, agreeably to said plot, in the same manner as
other roads are opened and cleared, and the overseer shall have the
same allowance for his services as other overseers in said county. |
Authorised to lay
out ground for a
public landing
place. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Harford county
are hereby empowered and directed, to assess and levy such sum of
money as they, in their judgment, shall deem necessary, to open
and clear said road, and also the amount of such damages, if any,
sustained by any person or persons whose land may be thus taken
and appropriated, which sums of money shall be levied, collected
and paid over, as other county charges are levied, collected and paid. |
Levy authorised
for opening road
and paying damages
sustained. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said road and
landing place
when laid out, opened and cleared, under the provisions of this act,
shall be a public road and landing place, and said road shall be
amended and kept in repair as other public roads in said county;
and the commissioners hereby appointed shall have an allowance
of two dollars for each day they shall attend in discharge of the duties
herein required. |
When laid out,
road and landing
place to be public. |
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CHAP. LXXIX.
An Act authorising George Creager, junior, late Sheriff of Frederick
County, to complete his Collection. Lib. TH.
No. 2, fol. 233. |
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
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