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CHAP. 91. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
purchase money as above, before conveyance shall be made, and
the value of which improvements shall be ascertained and determined
by three disinterested persons chosen by the parties, or by the
bills and receipts of the workmen. |
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Passed Jan. 4, 1807. |
CHAP. XCII.
An Act to provide for the making an alteration in the Road therein
mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 290. |
Justices of levy
court may examine
and alter
certain road. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the
justices of the levy court of Baltimore county, or a majority of
them, are hereby authorised to examine that part of the road leading
from Baltimore to Belle-Air which runs from Thomas Kell's
house, in Baltimore county, northward, to the next turn or course
of said road, as last run out by the commissioners appointed for that
purpose, and if in the opinion of the said justices, or a majority of
them, that part of said road can be altered with little inconvenience
to the public, they are hereby authorised to make an alteration
therein, so as to cause the said road to intersect the one first opened,
and now in use, northward of the branch running near said
Kell's house, and the said justices shall cause a plot of the said
alteration of said road to be made and filed with the original plot
thereof, and the part of said road, so to be laid out, shall be, when
opened by the said Kell, a public highway, as other parts of it
are, and the former course of said road, which may be departed
from in pursuance of this act, shall not be considered or opened as
a part of the said road. |
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Passed Jan. 4, 1807. |
CHAP. XCIII.
An Act to prevent Swine and Geese from going at large in Frederick-Town,
in Cecil County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 291. |
Geese and swine
going at large may
be impounded. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the first day of June next, no swine or geese belonging
to the inhabitants of Frederick-town, or to the inhabitants
of Cecil county living within one quarter of a mile of said town,
shall be suffered to go and remain at large in said town, or within
one quarter of a mile of said town, in said county; and if any swine
or geese belonging to the inhabitants as aforesaid shall be found
going and remaining at large within the said town, or within one
quarter of a mile of said town, in said county, it shall and may be
lawful for any person or persons to impound the same, and if impounded,
such person or persons shall immediately give notice, by
advertisements set up at the most public places in said town, describing
the swine or geese so impounded, and if the owner or
owners shall not, within five days after the setting up of said advertisements,
prove his or her property therein, and make compensation
for the injury, if any, which may have been sustained
by any inhabitant of said town or county, to be ascertained by
any two disinterested persons, inhabitants of said town, and shall
not pay for every such swine the sum of twenty-five cents for every
day it shall have been impounded, and for every such goose the
sum of six and an half cents for every day it shall have been confined,
it shall and may be lawful for the person or persons, so impounding
or confining as aforesaid, to sell, or kill the same for his
or her benefit. |
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