| 1784. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
CHAP. XXXVIII.
An ACT for the relief of
Robert Long, of Baltimore county. PR. |
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CHAP. XXXIX.
An ACT to empower the commissioners of Baltimore-town to
make a correct survey of the said town, and for
other purposes
therein mentioned. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS a number of the inhabitants of Baltimore-town,
by their
petition to this general assembly have set forth, that great inconveniencies
have arisen from the uncertain location of the lots in said
town, the boundaries thereof in many instances not being to be found,
and that
still greater confusion is apprehended from the variation of the compass,
unless
the commissioners of the said town are authorised to make a general
and correct
survey of the whole town, and establish permanent boundaries throughout
the
same to perpetuate the true location thereof: And whereas it
is further represented,
that a number of the inhabitants of the said town have made and extended
several parcels of ground out of the waters of Patapsco river, adjoining
the said
town, under an act of assembly for that purpose, which they are desirous
should
be surveyed and laid off into streets, lanes, alleys and canals, and
added to and
made part of Baltimore-town: And whereas also, the streets, lanes
and alleys,
in several of the additions made to the said town, have heretofore
been so negligently
laid out, as not to correspond with the other streets throughout the
said
town; it is therefore prayed, that the commissioners of Baltimore-town
be vested
with powers to remedy the grievances complained of; |
Survey to be
made, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the commissioners
of Baltimore-town aforesaid, or a major part of them, be authorised and
required, after giving six weeks notice in the Baltimore news-papers of
the time,
place and intentions, of their meeting, and after having taken an oath
before
some magistrate of Baltimore county, to be recorded with their proceedings,
well
and truly to execute the trust reposed in them by this act, without prejudice,
partiality
or favour, to cause a correct and general survey of the several additions
throughout the said town to be made, according the true original location
thereof, to be ascertained by proof of such location where it can be had,
or by
a proper allowance for the variation of the compass, where proof of the
original
location cannot be had, having a regard, in the calculation of the variation
of
the compass, to any proof which may be made to parts of such original location,
so as to make the lines upon which an allowance for variation may be made,
correspondent as nearly as may be with part proved as aforesaid, and to
establish
and fix permanent boundaries of stone throughout the same, with proper
marks and devices thereon, to ascertain in future the true location of
the several
lots in every part of the said town, and to cause a correct plot, with
proper explanations
of the same to be made, together with proof by them taken, and
the reasons which governed them in fixing such boundaries where no proof
of the
original running can be obtained, and returned to the town clerk, who is
hereby
directed to enter the same on record among the records of said town. |
| Proviso. |
III. Provided
always, and be it enacted, That if any person shall apprehend
himself aggrieved by the determination of the said commissioners in the
premises,
such person may, within three months next after such determination,
appeal from the same to the general court of the western shore, which court
shall have full power and authority to hear and determine such appeal,
and to
make all orders necessary for obtaining full information upon the subject
of dispute,
and shall hear such appeal at the first court, if it can be done with justice
to the parties, and the judgment and determination of the said court shall
be
final, and being certified to the commissioners aforesaid, they shall act
in conformity
thereto in completing their survey and location aforesaid. |
Streets, &c.
to be laid out
anew, &c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid, or a major part of
them, are hereby empowered and required, on application of the proprietors
of |
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