1827

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP, 33,

of said Dashiell, lying on said water, together with the land
covered by said water, be, and the same is hereby granted
to and vested in said Arthur Dashiell, provided that said
Dashiell, shall within two years from the passage of this act
et ect the mill aforesaid; and further provided, that the right
and title of the state in and to said water, and the land it co-
vers, shall revert to the state, should said mill though erected
within the time limited, be suffered at any time thereafter to

Remedy for grie-

vances

become useless.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in the event of said Da-
shiell's building the aforesaid mill, and any person or persons
being aggrieved in any shape or manner by said mill in their
real estate, the said person or persons so aggrieved, on appli-
cation to the levy court of Somerset county, it shall be the du-
ty of the said court to appoint five judicious landholders of
the neighborhood, to value the damages done said complai-
nant or complainants, which damage shall be paid by said
Dashiell, to the person or persons in whose favor the com-

Recovery

missioners shall award the same.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if said Dashiell shall refuse
to pay the damages so awarded by the commissioners, that
it may be recovered by the person or persons in whose favor
the award was made by the commissioners, in the same manner
as other debts are recovered, either before a justice of the
peace, or before the county court of Somerset, which ever may
have jurisdiction of the sum so awarded by the commission-
ers.

CHAPTER 34.

Passed February 1

1828.

An act for the preservation of the navigation of the Rivers
Transquakin and Chicknamacomico , in Dorchester County.

Weirs, &c. declar-
ed nuisances.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary"
land, that all weirs and hedges already made, or hereafter to
be made in the channel of the river Transquakin and Chick-
namacomico, or either of them, so as to stop the p ssage of
boats or vessels, or in any manner injure the navigation of
said rivers, or either of them, shall be deemed, and are here-
by declared nuisances, and may be by any person taken out of
said rivers or eith'er of them, and destroyed as such.

Penalty for plac-
ing

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That no free person or per-
sons, shall after the 1st day of may next, put, place, or make
any Weir or Hedge in the channel or mouth of either of the
said rivers, so as to stop the passage of boats or vessels, or
in any manner injure the navigation thereof, under the pe-
nalty of ten dollars for every such offence, to be recovered
before a justice of the peace, in the same manner as small
debts are recovered, and appropriated one half to the infor-
mer or person who will prosecute to effect for the recovery
thermal, the other half to the use of Dorchester county.