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LAWS of MARYLAND.
At a SESSION of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY
of MARYLAND, begun and held at the
city of
ANNAPOLIS, on Thursday the twenty-fifth of April,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred
and eighty-two, and ended the 15th
day of June:
The following laws were enacted.
THOMAS SIM LEE, Esq; Governor. |
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CHAP. I.
An ACT for the adjournment of civil causes ruled for trial at the next
general
court for the western shore.
The said causes are to stand for trial
on the same days in the 1st, 2d, and 3d weeks in June next,
as they are marked for in the 2d, 3d, and 4th weeks in May; but the court
may appoint other days at
discretion, or they may continue the causes. Summonses for witnesses
in these causes shall be returnable
three weeks later than the days which they express; and the petit jurors
shall attend on the 1st Tuesday
in June, instead of the 1st Tuesday in May, or be liable to a fine, not
exceeding £. 35. In case a sufficient
number of them shall not attend, a venire de circumstantibus may
issue to the sheriff of Anne-Arundel
to summon the number requisite for the trial of any particular cause; but
no person thus summoned shall
be compelled to serve on more than one trial. And for the trial of
criminals, at the court in course, a
similar venire may issue. |
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CHAP. II.
A Bill, entitled, An ACT
for an addition to Baltimore-town, in
Baltimore county. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS John Eager Howard, of Baltimore-town, by
his humble
petition to this general assembly, hath set forth, that he is seized and
possessed of great part of a tract of land called Lun's Lot, part of which
hath been heretofore laid out into lots, and annexed to Baltimore-town,
which
said lots have been built upon and considerably improved; and that it would
tend
greatly to the advantage of the said town, in case other parts of the said
tract of
land were laid out into convenient streets, lanes and alleys, and therefore
prayed a
law might pass for that purpose; and it appearing to this general assembly,
that
to extend the limits of the said town would contribute to promote the trade
and
commerce thereof; |
Commissioners
to cause
land to be surveyed,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the commissioners
of Baltimore-town, or the major part of them, be authorised and required,
at
any time before the first day of September next, to cause the aforesaid
tract of
land, or such part thereof as they may think necessary (not already incorporated
and made part of the town aforesaid) to be surveyed and laid out into lots,
streets,
lanes and alleys, at the proper cost and expence of the said John Eager
Howard,
in such manner as to the said commissioners, or a major part of them, shall
seem
convenient. |
A plot to be
made, &c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid, or a major part of
them, shall, on or before the said first day of September, cause a correct
and accurate
survey and plot to be made of the said land, and of all the lots, streets,
lanes and alleys, which shall be laid out in virtue of this act; and the
said plot
shall be recorded amongst the records of the said town, as soon as conveniently
may be thereafter, thereto remain as evidence of the boundaries, situation
and
location, of the said lots, and of the streets, lanes and alleys; which
said streets,
lanes and alleys, hereafter to be laid out in pursuance of this act, shall
be highways,
and be so deemed and taken to all intents and purposes whatever; and
when the same shall be done, the said land, so surveyed and laid out, shall
be,
and is hereby declared to be, part of Baltimore-town, as fully and amply
as if
included originally therein, and shall have the same immunities and privileges
as
the rest of the said town has, or by former laws ought to have; saving
to the
state of Maryland, and all bodies politic and corporate, and all persons
not mentioned
in this act, their several and respective rights. |
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