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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
after any road or way shall be surveyed and laid out agreeably to this
act,
the court shall direct the application for such road and the return thereof
to be recorded, and the court shall determine the compensation to be
made to the owner or owners of the land through which said road or way
shall pass, which compensation shall be paid by the person or persons applying
for such road or way, and thereafter and thereupon such road shall
be considered as the private way, and the same shall be kept open and repaired
at the expence of such person as shall use the same, and it shall not
be lawful for any person to stop up, or change, or in any manner obstruct
such private road or way, under the penalty of five pounds current money
for every offence. Provided always, that no such road shall be made
through any garden, yard, orchard, or meadow; and provided also, that
any person apprehending himself grieved by the determination of the
county court in granting or refusing to grant any way or road, or in any
matter in consequence of this act, may appeal to the general court,
whose
determination shall be final. |
1785.
CHAP.
XLIX. |
CHAP. L.
An ACT for altering the time of holding the courts in the
counties therein mentioned. |
Passed Mar. 8. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that
the holding the courts in the counties of Dorchester, Caroline
and Worcester, at the time directed by law, is found inconvenient, |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That for
the future the county court for DOrchester county, shall be held on the
Monday before the second Tuesday in the months of March, June, and
October, early; for Caroline county on the Monday before the third
Tuesday in the months of March, June and October; and for Worcester
county on the Monday before the first Tuesday on the months of March,
June and November, yearly; and that all actions, process and proceedings,
as well criminal as civil, which are depending and undetermined in
the said county courts, or returnable to the second, third and first Tuesday
in March next, shall be returned, judged and taken, to be in the same
situation, state and condition, on the Monday before the second, third
and
first Tuesdays of March next, proceed to the hearing and determining
of all actions, pleas and proceedings respectively, as the case may require,
as fully and effectually, to all intents, constructions and purposes
whatsoever, as the justices of the said county courts could or might lawfully
do on the second, third and first Tuesdays of March next, any law,
usage or custom to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. |
When courts
are to be held,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the particular business directed by any
act of assembly heretofore made, to be done at October court, in the county
of Worcester, shall hereafter be done and transacted at the November
court, any law heretofore made to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Business in
Worcester to
be done at
Nov. court,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That the orphans court, appointed by law to
be held on the second Tuesday in October for Dorchester county, shall for
the future be held on the first Tuesday in said month, ay law to the contrary
notwithstanding. |
When orphans
courts
in Dorchester. |
V. And be it
enacted, That the orphans courts for Worcester county,
shall, for the future, be held on the Friday next after the second Tuesdays |
And Worcester
counties
are to be held,
&c. |
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