FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

ed, they are hereby authorized and required to appoint five
commissioners, and the proprietor or proprietors shall ap-
point five commissioners, citizens and landholders of Anne
Arundel county, who or a majority of whom shall have
power and authority to meet on the said land, and ascertain
and determine the amount of damages which the proprietor
or proprietors of the land condemned shall be entitled to
receive, and in doing so, the said commissioners shall take
into consideration its present value as a private landing, and
every other circumstance which may affect the value of said
land, and also the damages to the proprietor or proprietors
consequent upon the condemnation thereof, and shall certify
and return to the said levy court under their hands and seals,
their valuation of the said land, and damages consequent
upon said condemnation, and shall cause a plat thereof to be
made by the surveyor of the county, and the same when
returned by said commissioners shall be filed and preserved
among the land records of the said county, and said con-
demnation and return, and the damages assessed, shall be
binding on the said county, and the proprietors of the said
land.

CHAP. 218.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
said levy court, at the annual levy after the said return, to
cause a sum of money to be levied upon the assessable pro-
perty of Prince George's county, to an amount equal to the
sum which shall have been ascertained as aforesaid, for the
use and benefit of the proprietor or proprietors of the said
land condemned as aforesaid, which shall be collected and
paid over to such person or persons, or to his, her or their
guardian, in case of minority, and that upon the payment of
said money and not before, the said land so condemned shall
be taken and deemed a public landing and used and enjoyed
as such, and the levy court of said county shall have autho-
rity to construct over and upon said, a suitable and conve-
nient wharf for the public use.

Levy court to
make annual
levy.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful
for the said levy court to use, or to authorize to be used,
the said land so condemned, for any other purpose than
that mentioned in the preceding sections, and for the con-
struction of warehouses thereon for tin: use of the public.

To be used

for warehous-
es.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners
shall, before they proceed to act, lake an oath, truly and
faithfully to discharge the trust confided to them by this
act.

Oath.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the said levy court
shall also at the same lime make a levy for the payment of
all the expenses attending the execution of this act, includ-
ing the surveyors fees, and two dollars a day to each of the
commissioners.
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Levy.