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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Passed May
24, 1853.
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CHAPTER 276.
AN ACT to lay out and locate a Public Road in
Worcester county.
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Commissioners
appointed.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That James Whaley, William D. Hudson
and Eli Dale, of Worcester county, be, and they
are hereby appointed commissioners, for the purpose of
laying out and locating a public road in Worcester
county; and they, or any two of them, after taking an
oath before some justice of the peace, that they will
faithfully execute the provisions of this act without
partiality or prejudice, and giving at least ten days
notice, by advertisement set up at some public place in
the third election district of said county, shall have
power to enter upon, survey, lay off and locate a public
road from Whaleysville to Libertytown, to begin at or
near a point one mile and a half to the eastward, on
the road leading from Whaleysville to Saint Martin's;
thence running through the lands and upon the division
lines of the lands of Thomas G. Lane, John S.
Purnell, guardian of Nancy Purnell, Eli Dale, John
M. Taylor, William D. Hudson, and the heirs of James
McGregor, to intersect the county road leading from the
town of Berlin to Libertytown, and the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, shall have power to
value and assess the damages, if any, sustained by the
owners of the lands over which they may locate said
road, taking into consideration the advantages as well
as disadvantages, that may result to the said owners of
lands, and to cause the same to be surveyed, and a
plat thereof, together with the valuation of the damages,
if any, to the landholders as aforesaid, and the
expense attending the execution of this act, to be returned
to the commissioners of Worcester county, and
any persons considering themselves aggrieved by the
proceedings, and return to the said commissioners, may
object to the ratification thereof, before the said board
of commissioners, and when ratified and confirmed by
the said commissioners, and not until then, it shall be
filed and recorded among the public records of the
county.
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Authority to
levy.
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SEC. 2. And
be it enacted, That said board of commissioners
of Worcester county shall, after ratification,
levy a sum of money, not exceeding two hundred and
fifty dollars, to defray the expense of opening and locating
said road; and when said road shall be located as
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