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CHAP.
XXXI. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
town, or within one mile of the same, before ten o'clock, other than
in or at
the market-house, when erected as aforesaid, under the penalty of fifteen
shillings
current money. |
On slaughtering
cattle, &c. |
VI. And be it
enacted, That if any person shall hereafter slaughter or butcher
any cattle kind, sheep or hog, on the said public lot, he, she or they,
so doing,
shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten shillings current money for every
such offence. |
On putting
horses under
market-house,
&c. |
VII. And be
it enacted, That if any person shall, after the said market-house
shall be removed and erected on the lot aforesaid, put their own or any
other person's
horse or horses, mare or mares, gelding or geldings, carriages or lumber
of
any kind, into or under the said market-house, on any pretence whatsoever,
he,
she or they, shall forfeit and pay ten shillings current money for every
such
offence. |
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VIII. And,
whereas heretofore at sundry times the commissioners of confiscated
British property, and others, owners of lands lying and situate between
the
two principal branches or forks of Elk river, have laid off, sold and conveyed,
many small portions or lots of land, now improved by buildings, and held,
possessed
and inhabited, by sundry traders, mechanics and manufacturers, and,
to suit
the convenience of the purchasers, and to advance the price of the lots
so by them
sold and conveyed, did, previous to such sales, lay of sundry streets lanes
and alleys,
whereon the said lots respectively bounded: And whereas no law, conveyance,
or express grant, has secured the free, quiet, and perpetual use and right
of and
in the said streets, lanes and alleys, to the purchasers, owners and
possessors, of
the lots bought as aforesaid, and it is reasonable that such purchasers,
owners and
possessors, and every other person, should be quieted in the free and uninterrupted
use of the streets, lanes and alleys, laid out as aforesaid: And
whereas Henry
Hollingsworth, for the benefit of the inhabitants aforesaid, and promotion
of
literature and the christian religion, hath by deed, dated the twelfth
day of May,
in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty-seven granted unto
Joseph
Gilpin, Joseph Couden, Jonathan Booth, Tobias Rudulph, senior, Zebulon
Hollingsworth,
Thomas Huggins and Daniel Robinson, and their successors chosen
annually by the housekeepers of the town called Head of Elk, on the Easter
Monday annually, a certain lot of ground containing one acre more or less,
under
the metes and bounds as in the said deed is contained and expressed, for
a school-house,
or house of worship; and it is the intention and request of the said Jacob
Hollingsworth, Henry Hollingsworth, and others, who have sold and given
lots
aforesaid, that the grant aforesaid, and all streets, lanes and alleys,
should be
confirmed and established by law for the uses in the several grants aforesaid
mentioned,
and for which they have been laid off; Be
it enacted, That all the lots,
streets, lanes and alleys, that have been laid off, sold and conveyed,
given or
granted, b the commissioners of confiscated British property, and others,
which
are situate within the forks of Elk river, and heretofore called the Head
of Elk,
and all the lots, streets, lanes and alleys, which hereafter may be laid
out by the
commissioners hereafter appointed, and their successors, shall be reputed,
held
and esteemed, a town; and that the state of Maryland, Jacob Hollingsworth
and
Henry Hollingsworth, and others, to whom the right of soil in the said
streets,
lanes and alleys, and lots aforesaid, did belong and appertain, shall for
ever hereafter
be barred from having or holding the same, unless the inhabitants of the
said town shall cease and decline to use them for the purpose for which
they were
granted; provided nevertheless, that the commissioners, or their successors,
shall
not make any street, lane or alley, or lay off any lots, save where they
have been
heretofore made and laid off by the direction of the commissioners of confiscated
British property, and others who have laid off and conveyed lots, or which
shall
be done with the free consent and approbation of the owners of the lands
which
shall or may hereafter be laid off into lots, streets, lanes and alleys. |
Commissioners
appointed,
&c. |
IX. And be it
enacted, That Joseph Gilpin, Jonathan Booth, Zebulon Hollingsworth,
Henry Hollingsworth and Tobias Rudulph, junior, be and are hereby
appointed commissioners to survey and lay out all lands, or parcels of
lands, heretofore |
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