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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
Matthias Hammond and Abner Linthicum, are hereby appointed
commissioners, to lay out, survey, mark, bound and open, a public
road in said county, at the expense of those willing to contribute
thereto, not exceeding twenty feet in width, beginning at a bounded
stone standing by William Merriken's gate, on the road leading
from the Priest's Bridge over the Patuxent river, to run in the most
convenient direction the nature of the ground will admit of, to pass
at or near Caleb Sappington's blacksmith shop, thence in the most
direct and convenient course to intersect the road leading from the
city of Annapolis to Hammond's or Cragg's ferry, on the Patapsco,
and they are hereby required to return a plot of the same to the
clerk's office of Anne-Arundel county, to be there recorded, and
when the said road shall be so opened, it shall be deemed and considered
a public road, and kept in repair as other public roads are
in said county. |
1810.
CHAP. 11. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
of them, be and they are hereby authorised and required to
assess the damages sustained by the individuals over whose land the
said road may run, taking into consideration the advantages, and
the same, when so assessed, shall be paid, or secured to be paid,
by the persons interested in opening the said road, to the person or
persons entitled to receive the same, before the said road, after it
is laid off, shall be opened or cleared. |
To assess damages. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons over
whose land the said road shall pass, or his, her or their guardian
or trustee, shall conceive himself, herself or themselves aggrieved
by such valuation or assessment of damages by the said commissioners,
it shall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace, on
his, her or their application, to issue a warrant, under his hand and
seal, directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon
twelve disinterested men, qualified to serve as jurors in the
county court, to meet upon the premises on a certain day, of which
ten days notice at least shall be given to the party or parties interested;
and the said jurors, when so met, and having each first
taken an oath before some justice of the peace of said county, that
he will, without favour, affection, prejudice or partiality, assess
the damages sustained by the person or persons at whose request
such inquisition shall be taken, by reason of opening the aforesaid
road through his, her or their land, shall thereupon proceed to assess
and value the damages accordingly, taking into consideration
the advantages and disadvantages, if any, and such inquisition and
valuation shall be final and conclusive between the parties respectively;
Provided, that the said road shall not be opened through the
buildings, yards, gardens, orchards or meadows, of any person
without his, her or their consent. |
Persons aggrieved
by such assessment
may have jury
summoned, &c.
Proviso. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
aforesaid
shall be and they are hereby entitled to receive two dollars each for
every day they shall respectively attend to the discharge of the
duties required by this act, to be paid by the persons interested in
opening and clearing the said road. |
Allowance to commissioners. |
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CHAP. XII.
An Act to make valid a Deed from Arthur Woolford to James Laird,
of Somerset County (a). Lib. TH. No. 2, fol.
440. A Private Act.
(a) For part of a tract of land
called Woolford, lying in the said county. |
Passed Dec. 23. |
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