| 1784.
CHAP.
XLVI. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
have not assessed the damages accruing to individuals thereby, upon
each
individual benefited by opening and widening the said lane, agreeable
to the true
intent and meaning of the said act: Therefore, |
Commissioners
to ascertain
damages,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the said commissioners,
or a major part of them, on giving twenty days notice in the Baltimore
news-papers, shall meet together at a time and place in the said notice
specified, and shall, after duly examining and considering all circumstances,
ascertain
and determine the damages that each individual may have sustained by
opening and widening the said lane, and shall return the amount of the
same in
like manner as in the former act directed. |
To assess money,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the said commissioners, or a major part of
them, at the time and place aforesaid, on a due inquiry into all circumstances,
shall assess and ascertain what sum or sums each individual is situate
on Hanover-lane,
or that part of Hanover-street to the southward of the said lane, shall
pay
and satisfy, and return the names of all the persons, together with the
sums of
money each shall be obliged to pay, in the same manner as by the original
act
directed, and that the said sums of money so assessed may be recovered
in like
manner as in the original act directed. |
May summon
a jury, &c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That the said commissioners, if they shall judge proper,
may summon a jury of twelve freeholders no way interested in the question,
to assess the damages sustained by any individual by opening and widening
the
said lane, and also to ascertain and determine the sum or sums which any
or every
person interested therein, and benefited thereby, shall pay, in satisfaction
of the
said damages; which said sums, if ascertained by a jury as aforesaid, shall
be
returned by the commissioners, and be recovered in the same manner as before
directed. |
Part of an act
repealed. |
V. And be it
enacted, That every part of the aforesaid act inconsistent herewith,
shall be to all intents and purposes repealed. |
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CHAP. XLVII.
An ACT for the benefit of Anne Stevenson. |
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CHAP. XLVIII.
An ACT for the relief of Benjamin Garnett. |
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CHAP. XLIX.
An ACT to enable the corporation of the city of Annapolis to
lay a tax on property within the said city dan the precincts,
to
regulate and license ordinaries, and retailers of spirituous
liquors,
within the said city and the precincts thereof. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the annual
ordinary expences of the corporation of the city of Annapolis, for
the support of the mayor's court and its proper officers, and the necessary
charge of repairing the streets, require considerable sums of money, and
the funds belonging to the said city are very trivial, and greatly inadequate
to the
annual expences thereof; and it is also represented, that the dock of this
city
requires immediately to be cleaned, and that there is no market-house in
the said
city: |
Corporation
may lay a tax,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the corporation
of the said city of Annapolis and their successors be, and they are hereby
authorised
to lay a tax not exceeding one shilling current money, in any one year,
for
every hundred pounds of property within the said city and the precincts
thereof,
as the said corporation may think proper. |
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