| 1791.
CHAP.
LXV.
Proviso. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
III. Provided,
That nothing in this act contained shall authorise the said
courts, or any of them, to contract for keeping a ferry at the county
expence
at any place where such ferry has not been heretofore so kept and supported. |
| Duration. |
IV. This act to continue as long as the original
act to which it is an additional
supplement. |
Passed December
27. |
CHAP. LXVI.
An ACT to empower the justice of Cæcil county to streighten
and amend the public roads in said county, and to levy
the
expences attending the same on the assessable property
of said
county. |
Justices to
meet, &c. |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of
the peace of Cæcil county, or any five of them, shall and they
are hereby
empowered to meet on the first Monday in March next at the court-house,
and in each year afterward during the continuance of this act, at the
usual time and place of holding the levy courts, and appoint commissioners
to
inspect the public roads in said county. |
And levy money,
&c. |
II. And be it
enacted, That the justices of the county aforesaid shall levy,
by equal assessment, a sum not exceeding two shillings and six-pence current
money for the first year, and a sum not exceeding one shilling and six-pence
for
the second year, and a sum not exceeding one shilling and six-pence
for the third
year, after the passing of this act, for every hundred pounds, on all assessable
property in said county, to be collected in the same manner, at the same
times,
and by the same persons, as other taxes are collected, ad shall be paid
into the
hands of the commissioners of said roads, or their order. |
Commissioners
to lay out
roads within
four months,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the justices of the county aforesaid for each of
the
aforesaid roads, or a majority of them, shall, within four months after
the first
day of March next, lay out, survey, mark and bound, the roads for which
they
are respectively appointed, of reasonable width, and in as streight
and direct
a manner as the nature of the ground and other circumstances will admit
of,
and shall, without delay, sign and seal plain plots of the same, with
explanations
thereof; and such plots and explanations shall be returned to the next
county court, to be lodged in the clerk's office and recorded among the
records
of said county, and shall be thereafter deemed and taken to be the public
road for ever, and shall be kept in repair in the same manner as other
public
roads are directed to be kept in said county by this act. |
How vacancies
are to be
filled, &c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That in case of death, resignation, disqualification,
or refusal to act, of any of the commissioners aforesaid, any three justices
of
said county, where such vacancy shall happen, shall have power, and
they are
hereby directed, to fill up such vacancy or vacancies; and such justices
shall
meet at the court-house within fifteen days after such vacancy or vacancies
shall
happen, and fill up said vacancy, and such re-appointment shall and may
be
as often as occasion shall require, until the road shall be surveyed, plotted,
returned,
and recorded as aforesaid; and after the return of the said roads aforesaid
shall be made and approved according to this act, the justices of said
county
shall order to be paid to the commissioners aforesaid, out of the monies
to
be levied as aforesaid, a reasonable compensation as to them shall seem
meet. |
Courts to agree
for damages,
&c. |
V. And,
whereas the laying out of said roads may cause damage to the proprietors
of lands through which the same may pass, and it is reasonable and
just that compensation should be made to those who require the same; Be
it
enacted, That in every case where the same may be required of the
levy court,
that they shall agree with the party aggrieved for the amount of the damages,
provided they do not exceed the sum of three pounds per acre, but if such
agreement
should not take place, then the court, to whom such application may
be made, shall issue their warrant to the sheriff of said county, commanding |
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