GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

CHAPTER 6.

CHAPTER 6.

An act to provide for the cession, of territorial jurisdiction
at Hooper's or Barren island in Dorchester county, and
at Sharp's island in Talbot county, for the erection of
Light Houses thereon by the government of the United
States.

Passed Jan. 11, 1832

WHEREAS applications have been made to the Congress
of the United States for the erection and establishment of
Light Houses at Hooper's or Barren Island in Dorchester
county, and at Sharp's Island in Talbot county. — And
whereas, this Legislature duly appreciating the advantages
to emanate from the erection and establishment of the said
Light Houses, and particularly with intent to avoid the
dangers incident to the navigation of the Chesapeake bay
during the night, is disposed to promote the achievement of
objects so much desired by the good people of this State;
Therefore.

Preamble.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland; That in case an act or acts of the congress
of the United States, authorizing the erection and es-
tablishment of a Light house or Light houses, at either
one or more of the places or points, designated in the pre-
amble of this act, commissioners shall be, and the same are
hereby appointed with power to fill vacancies, if any should
occur, in either body, to fix and determine the value of the
land which may be selected by the United States for the
purpose or purposes aforesaid.

Commissioner to
fix value.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted; That the following persons
be and they are hereby appointed and constituted commis-
sioners for the purposes of this act, to wit: John Griffith,
Samuel Keene of Benj., Benjamin Travers, John Creighton,
and Charles Travers, all of Dorchester county, to be com-
missioners for the said county, and Robert Banning, John
Loockerman, William Hambleton, Samuel T. Kennard and
Edward N. Hambleton to be commissioners for Talbot
county, as the case may be, and they or a majority of them,
shall in the event aforesaid be authorized in either of their
respective counties, as the case may be, upon giving at

Commissioner
named.

least sixty days notice, in two of the most convenient news-
papers, for four consecutive weeks, to value and assess the
same, taking into consideration the advantages or disadvant-
ages attendant upon the erecting the Light houses aforesaid,
on the land aforesaid, and including in said valuation a rea-
sonable allowance for the use and privilege of a road from
the land aforesaid, through the lands of any proprietor or

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