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ROBERT EDEN, Esq; Governor.
of Patuxent on which Green's bridge stands and Annapolis, shall be in
one district,
whereof Henry Ridgely, Thomas Dorsey, sen. and John Hood, jun. shall be
supervisors,
and whereon the money before appropriated for loan to Anne-Arundel
county, or such part thereof as may be necessary, shall and may be expended;
the
road leading from Baltimore-town to Frederick-town, by or near Hood's mill,
which shall be in Baltimore county, shall be in one district, whereof Isaac
Griest,
Zachariah Maccubbin, sen. and Benjamin Wells, sen. shall be supervisors,
and
whereon sixteen hundred of the said dollars before appropriated for loan
for Baltimore
county, or such part thereof as may be necessary, shall and may be expended;
that such part of the said road as lead from Baltimore-town to the province
line, in a streight direction to York, shall be in one other district,
whereof
Benjamin Griffith, James Gittings, and Nicholas Merryman, shall be supervisors,
and on the said part of the same road four thousand of the said dollars
before appropriated
for loan to Baltimore county, or such part thereof as may be necessary,
shall and may be expended; the road leading from Baltimore-town to Royster's,
shall be in one other district, whereof Alexander Wells, Samuel Owings,
jun. and
Jesse Hollingsworth, shall be supervisors, and on the said part of the
same road
twenty-four hundred of the said dollars before appropriated for loan to
Baltimore
county, or such part thereof as may be necessary, shall and may be expended;
the
road leading from Royster's towards Hanover, as far as the provincial line,
shall be
in one other district, whereof Richard Richards, Samuel Worthington, and
Nathan
Cromwell, shall be supervisors, and on the said part of the same road
sixteen hundred dollars before appropriated for loan to Baltimore county,
or such
part thereof as may be necessary, shall and may be expended; that such
part of
the road leading from Royster's, through the Pipe creek settlement to the
Catoctin
mountain, as shall be in Baltimore county, shall be in one other district,
whereof
Doctor John Craddock, Mordecai Hammond, and Christopher Owings, shall be
supervisors, and on the said part of the same road, one thousand sixty-six
dollars
and two thirds parts of a dollar of the said dollars before appropriated
for loan to
Baltimore county, or such part thereof as may be necessary, shall and may
be expended. |
1774.
CHAP.
XXI. |
IV. And be it
further enacted, That the said supervisor, or any two of them,
in their respective districts aforesaid, are hereby empowered to streighten,
or otherwise
change the said roads, in such places and manner as to them shall appear
most convenient for carriage, not going in or through any building, yard,
garden
or orchard, without the licence and consent of the proprietor and possessor
thereof;
and the said supervisors, or any two of them, in their respective districts
aforesaid, may and shall cause all the said roads, so to be made and continued
public roads by virtue of this act, to be well cleared, grubbed and stones,
forty
feet wide, except the said road leading to Annapolis, which shall be cleared,
grubbed and stoned, as aforesaid, thirty feet wide, and shall cause necessary
bridges
and causeways to be made, and convenient trenches and ditches to be cut
for
draining and leading off the water from the said roads, and shall also
cause large
posts to be well set up, in the middle of the said road, from Watts's
branch to
George-town, or until it intersects the road leading from Frederick-town
to George-town, in sight of, and not exceeding one hundred yards distance
from,
each other. |
Supervisors to
streighten the
roads, &c. |
V. Provided
always, and be it enacted, That if the said supervisors, or any
two of them, shall deem it necessary, and that it would greatly conduce
to lessening
the distance, that the road should pass through any improved ground in
their
respective district, (buildings, yards, gardens and orchards, excepted,)
in such
case the same supervisors, or any two of them, may agree with the owners
for the
purchase of forty feet or thirty feet in breadth, as the case may require,
through
the same, not exceeding the rate of sixty dollars per mile; and in case
the owner
or owners of such land shall refuse to make sale thereof, at a reasonable
price, or
be under any disability of making such sale, then the said supervisors,
or any two
of them, may, and they are hereby authorised and required, to issue their
warrant
to the sheriff of their county, commanding him to summon and return a jury
of
the best and most substantial freeholders, not less than twelve, inhabitants
of the |
Proviso, in
case of road's
passing
through improved
ground. |
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