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1835.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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CHAP. 149
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be collected and paid over, to the said John Guyton,
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the amount of costs and damages that he may have been
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subject to, by the prosecution of said suit.
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Amount ascertain-
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the certificate of
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the county clerk, stating the amount of costs on said
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suit, shall he evidence to the said county commis-
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sioners to regulate the amount of their levy.
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CHAPTER 149.
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Passed Mar.9,1836
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An act to condemn and lay off a lot of ground for a pub-
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lic wharf and lumber yard, at Mattaponi Landing,
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on the Pocomoke river, in Worcester county.
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Preamble
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WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assem-
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bly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of Worcester
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county, that they labor under great inconvenience for
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want of a public wharf and lumber yard at Mattaponi
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landing, on Pocomoke river, in Worcester county, —
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Therefore :
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Commissioners to locate
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Maryland, That John S. Stevenson, John O. Selby,
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George Bishop, Matthias Lindsay and Isaac Davis,
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be and they hereby are appointed commissioners to lay
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out, survey, mark and bound a piece of ground of such
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size and extent as they may deem expedient, for a
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public wharf and lumber yard, at Mattaponi landing,
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on Pocomoke river, in Worcester county, in such a
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form as the nature of the ground and the convenience
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of the land holders will permit.
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Plat— record
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said commis-
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sioners, or a majority of them, are hereby directed to
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return a plot Of the said wharf and lumber yard, when
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surveyed, marked and laid out as aforesaid, to the clerk
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Public wharf, &c.
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of the county court to be by him recorded; which wharf
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and lumber yard shall forever thereafter be deemed and
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taken as a public wharf and lumber yard, and shall be
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kept up and repaired as all other public wharves in
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said county are; Provided, that nothing herein contain-
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ed, shall in any manner authorise the said commis-
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sioners, to lay out the said wharf and lumber yard
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