1791.
CHAP.
LXIX. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
for their services, and to establish badges and regulations respecting
the same; and
no person shall be allowed to sweep or clean any chimney, within the limits
thereof, for hire or pay, without a licence first obtained from the said
fire company:
Provided always, that the rate for a chimney of one story shall not
exceed
one shilling, and for two or more stories eighteen-pence. |
President, &c.
to licence
chimney
sweeps, &c. |
XXIX. And be
it further enacted, That the president and trustees of the said
company are hereby authorised to issue a licence or licences, as the
one or the
other may seem best, to any person or persons, for the better sweeping
of chimnies
in the town and precincts aforesaid, and the same to recall as often
as they
may please, he or they so licensed paying annually for the same a sum not
less
than five pounds or more than fifty pounds, as the case may be, or in proportion
to the number licensed, and extent of the district prescribed in which
he or they
may be authorised to sweep chimnies, and entering into bond, and one
good
security, in the penalty of one hundred pounds current money, to pay the
fine
imposed by law as often as any chimney shall take fire within thirty days
after his
or their sweeping the same. |
Penalty for
sweeping
without licence,
&c. |
XXX. And be
it further enacted, That any person sweeping for pay without
a licence, for every offence, after the first day of June next, shall forfeit
three
pounds current money, half to the informer, and the other half to the street
commissioners for the paving and repair of the streets and if any such
delinquent
shall be a slave, the same shall be paid by his master or mistress. |
A record to be
kept, &c. |
XXXI. And be
it enacted, That the said company shall keep a record of all
persons licensed as sweeps, and the number of the licence granted him or
them,
and make laws and regulations for carrying this power into effect, not
being contrary
to law or the provisions of this act. |
Passed December
30. |
CHAP. LXX.
An ACT to streighten and amend the public roads in Harford
county, and for other purposes. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, by
the petition of the
inhabitants of Harford county, that their public roads are out of repair,
and in their present situation require streightening and amending,
and that several other roads are requisite and necessary, and ought
to be laid
out in as streight a direction as the situation of the ground will admit,
and that
the expence thereof be hereafter levied on the taxable property within
the said
county; |
Several roads
to be laid out,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the following
roads shall be laid out, surveyed, marked and bounded, in the manner
hereafter
directed, viz. One road beginning at the Pennsylvania line where
the road from
Peach-Bottom ferry, on the river Susquehanna, intersects the said line,
and from
thence to Thomas Underhill's mills on Deer creek, and from thence into
the
most convenient road leading to Baltimore-town; one other and leading from
the Bald-Friar ferry, on the said river, to Belle-Air, and from thence,
in as
streight a direction as the situation of the ground will admit, towards
Baltimore-town,
as far as the line of Baltimore county, at the Little Falls of Gunpowder
river; and one other road leading from Belle-Air aforesaid to the lower
Cross-Roads,
from thence to the ferry known by the name of Smith's ferry, on Susquehanna
river; and that all other public roads within the said county may and
shall be streightened and amended as herein after directed. |
Justices to
meet, &c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the justices of the peace in the aforesaid county,
or any three or more of them, be and they are hereby authorised and
required to
meet on the second Monday in March next, or as soon thereafter as conveniently
may be, at the court-house of said county, and at their levy court in every
year thereafter, and so met, may and shall levy a sum of money not
exceeding
the sum of three shillings and nine-pence, or less than two shillings and
six-pence, |
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