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JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
side of said Island or bar, each draw and wharf being of such
dimentions as are provided for in the ninth section of this act,
with all the provisions and penalties relating thereto. |
Damage to
fisheries. |
12. And be it enacted, That if any
private fishery shall be
distroyed or impaired by the location, building, or by any works
of the said bridge, the said company shall be liable in damages
to the parties owning such fishery, to be assessed by a jury of
twelve discreet and competent men to be summoned by the
sheriff of the county where such fishery, thus injured or impaired
may be situated, which jury after being duly sworn by said
sheriff to examine the grievance complained of, without favor,
affection, partiality, prejudice, hatred, malice or ill-will, shall
proceed to examine the matter and to assess the damages as they
may thing just and proper, and an appeal may be taken by either
party from said verdict to the county court of such county where
such damages were assessed. |
| General powers. |
13. And be it enacted, That the said
company shall be, and
they are hereby vested and clothes with all the privileges,
rights, immunities and advantages which are held and possessed
by a company incorporated by an act passed at November session,
eighteen hundred and eight, entitled, an act to incorporate
a company for the purpose of building a bridge over the river
Susquehanna, and be governed by the same regulations as are
therein prescribed, and be entitled to the same tolls, and every
clause and provision of the said act, so far as the same are applicable
to, and not inconsistent with this act. |
United States
may subscribe. |
14. And be it enacted, That the government
of the United
States be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to
subscribe for any number of shares of stock in said company,
upon the same terms as other subscribers are authorized to take
and subscribed for the same. |
Former act
repealed. |
15. And be it enacted, That an act
passed at November session,
eighteen hundred and nine, entitled, an act to incorporate
a company for the purpose of building a bridge over the river
Susquehanna at Havre-de-Grace, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
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Passed March
8, 1826. |
CHAPTER 205.
An act relating to Insolvent Debtors. |
Security for
appearance
conditionally
dispensed
with. |
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, any judge of any
county court, justice of the orphan's court, or the commissioners
of insolvent debtors, for the city and county of Baltimore,
as the case may be, be, and they or any of them are hereby authorised
and empowered to receive and entertain the application |
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