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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. III.
A Supplement to the act*, entitled An act to authorise the Levy
Court
of Washington County to appoint Commissioners
to alter, straighten,
open and amend, a Road therein mentioned.
Lib. TH. No. 3,
fol. 349. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 3.
Passed Nov. 9.
* 1811, ch. 12. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the width of the road as directed to be opened by the act to which
this is a supplement, passed at November session, eighteen hundred
and eleven, shall be fifty feet in width, instead of thirty, as
directed by the original act to which this is a supplement. |
Width of road. |
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CHAP. IV.
An Act authorising the Levy Court of Washington County to open a
Road in said County. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 349. |
Passed Nov. 11. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the levy court of Washington county, if they, or a majority of
them, shall think that a road leading from John Shairk's mill,
through the lands of Thomas McCardle, to meet and go with a
lane that separates the plantation of Henry Lewis, and the plantation
late the property of Doctor Richard Pindell, and thence to
intersect the main road leading from Hager's-town to Hancock
Town, is necessary or beneficial to the inhabitants of said county,
shall have power and authority to appoint three commissioners to
lay off a road not exceeding twenty feet wide, and have the same
surveyed, and plain plots made of the same, and return said plots
to the levy court of the county aforesaid under their hands; and
said commissioners shall have full power to bargain and contract
with any person or persons over whose land the said road may
pass, or adjudge the damage any person or persons may sustain
by the said road, and make a return of all contracts for land or
damages adjudged by them, by reason of opening said road, to the
levy court, under their hands, and the said court may order the
same to be recorded, or reject the same or any part thereof; and
the levy court shall levy on the assessable property of Washington
county, the expense of the commissioners for viewing and surveying
the said road; and if the levy court shall confirm the said road
agreeably to the return of the commissioners, and cause the same
to be recorded, they shall then appoint a supervisor or supervisors
to clear and open the said road, not exceeding twenty feet in width,
and may levy the expense of said road upon the assessable property
of Washington county. |
Commissioners
may be appointed
to lay out road, &c. |
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CHAP. V.
A Supplement to an act to lay out and open a Road in Frederick
County, passed November session eighteen hundred
and nine †.
Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 350. |
Passed Nov. 13.
† Ch. 40. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
Thomas Jones, James Mark, Samuel Reynolds, George L. Kesselving
and John Bower, appointed commissioners to survey, lay out
and open, the road mentioned in the act to which this is a supplement,
or a majority of them, are hereby empowered to locate a
road from George Mouse's mill, in the nearest and best direction,
to intersect Groff's mill road, at or near McFarlin's new house on
said road, instead of the location directed in the original act, if in |
Commissioners appointed
to survey
and lay out road. |
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