| 1791.
CHAP.
LXX. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
amending the said roads, by an order drawn by the justices aforesaid
on the collector:
Provided nevertheless, that the said commissioners shall not exceed
three
pounds per acre for any lands by them agreed for or purchased
for the use aforesaid. |
Justices to call
on the collector,
&c. |
XIV. And be
it enacted, That the justices aforesaid may and shall, at their
levy court, annually, call on the collector for the settlement of all
monies levied
and assessed for the use of the county aforesaid, and in case of neglect
or refusal
of the said collector, immediately to commence suit for the recovery
thereof, in
which no appeal or writ of error shall be had or brought, nor more
than one imparlance
shall be allowed. |
Another road
to be laid out,
&c. |
XV. And be it
enacted, That another public road shall be laid out, cleared
and opened, at the charge of Baltimore county, not exceeding forty
feet wide,
from the Little Falls of Gunpowder to Baltimore-town, in continuation
of the
road directed by this act to be laid out from Belle-Air, in Harford
county, to
the said Falls, in as streight a direction as the nature of the ground
will admit;
provided, that the said road shall not be carried through any garden,
yard, house
or orchard, without the owners consent; and provided also, that no
part of the
funds already appropriated by law to the laying out and making several
turnpike
roads in Baltimore county shall be applied to the clearing of the said
road until
the said turnpike roads have been completed. |
Commissioners
appointed,
&c. |
XVI. And be
it enacted, That James Gittings, Thomas Todd and James
Baker, or any two of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners
on
the said road, to mark, bond, clear and make, the same, and to return
a plot
thereof in the usual manner; and the commissioners of review are hereby
directed to draw orders in favour of the said commissioners, when applied
for,
on the collector of the said county, for such sum as may be necessary
to enable
them to lay out, mark, bound and return, a plot of the said road; and
after the
completion of the said turnpike roads, for such further sum as may
be necessary
for clearing and making the said road agreeably to this act. |
Who may agree
for damages,
&c. |
XVII. And be
it enacted, That the said commissioner may agree with the
owner or owners, through whose land the said road may pass, for the
sum to be
paid therefor, and where they cannot agree they shall have power to
summon
a jury as herein before directed; and the damages so contracted for
or assessed,
shall be paid out of the money for which the commissioners of review
shall draw
their order, after the completion of the turnpike roads as aforesaid. |
Their allowance,
&c. |
XVIII. And be
it enacted, That the said commissioners shall be allowed seven
shillings and six-pence for every day they shall be employed in discharge
of their
duty under this act, to be retained out of any money that shall come
into their
hands as aforesaid. |
Money not to
be apportioned,
&c. |
XIX. And,
whereas the public road mentioned in this act leading from Belle-Air,
in as streight a direction as the nature of the county will admit, toward
Baltimore-town, as far as the line of Baltimore county, will be useless,
unless
laid out, cleared and made passable, from the said line to Baltimore-town;
therefore, Be it enacted, That no
part of the money levied for the purpose
aforesaid, shall be apportioned or expended on the said road, otherwise
than payment
of the commissioners for marking and bounding the same, until that part
of the said road within Baltimore county shall be laid out, cleared,
and made
passable, on the direction aforesaid, any thing contained in this law to
the contrary
notwithstanding. |
Direction of
road not to be
altered, &c. |
XX. And be it
enacted, That the direction of the public road leading from
Susquehanna Lower ferry to Baltimore-town shall not be altered so as to
leave
Bush-town. |
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