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which is hereby directed to be levied, collected and paid as oth-
er county charges are levied collected and paid.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commission-
ers or a majority of them, shall value and ascertain the dama-
ges that may be sustained by each and every of the persons
through or on whose lands the said road may pass, (petitioners
to the General Assembly for this road only excepted,) by open-
ing the same, and the damages so ascertained shall be levied
and assessed as other county charges are, and shall be paid
over to the said persons respectively over whose land said road
may pass.
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Dec Sess.
1815
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CHAPTER 147.
An act for the relief of the Baltimore Company.
Sec 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the legal title in fee simple of and in all the
lands heretofore held in partnership by the late Baltimore
Company in iron works, commonly called and known by the
name and firm of The Baltimore Company, which have been
sold by said company, but not conveyed to the purchasers, and
of and in all the lands of the said company which now remain
unsold and undivided, shall be and hereby is vested absolutely
in Henry W. Rogers, Samuel Johnson Donaldson and Tho-
mas L. Emory, Junr. their heirs and assigns in trust that they
or any two of them, or the survivor of them, shall make and
execute conveyances in due form of law, to such person or
persons as may be entitled thereto, of all such lands as have
heretofore been sold by the said company and not conveyed,
(on said trustees being satisfied that the purchase money has
been fully paid to the person entitled to receive the same) and
to lay off into lots such of said lands as may now remain un-
sold and undivided, and sell the same at public auction after
reasonable public notice of the time, place and terms of sale;
md on receipt of the purchase money therefor to make convey-
ances to the purchasers thereof in fee; and the said trustees for
their trouble and expenses in making sad sales, shall be allow-
ed out of the proceeds thereof, ten per cent on the same; after
executing which they or the survivor as the case may be, shall
distribute the nett balance to and amongst the proprietors of the
said lands in their due proportions; Provided, that before the
said trustees or any of them shall proceed to sell any of said
lands they or any two of them, or the survivor as the case
may be, shall give their or his bond with security to the State
of Maryland, in the penalty of one hundred thousand dollars,
conditioned for his or their faithful performance of said trust,
which bond shall be filed in the chancery office, and may be su-
ed on if necessary as other bonds taken from trustees by au-
thority of that court, and also provided that if any of the said
trustees shall decline acting as such, or shall die before the
trust is completed, the chancellor of the state shall and may on
application substitute another or others in the room or place
of such trustee or trustees, which person or persons so substi-
tuted shall have all the powers and authority vested in those in
whose place they are so substituted.
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Passed Jan.
23, 1816.
In whom vest-
ed--lots--may
sell.
Proviso.
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