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CHAP. 16.
Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. XVI.
An Act for the relief of William Gibson, of Harford County.
Lib.
TH. No. 2, fol. 157. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS William Gibson, and sundry other inhabitants
of
Harford county, by their petition to this general assembly have
set forth, that a certain road in Harford county, authorised to be
opened by an act of the general assembly, passed at November
session, eighteen hundred and five (a), was laid out through a well
timbered piece of land, nearly one mile, which has been cut down,
and through one of his fields, in a very disadvantageous manner,
and that he is materially injured thereby, and no power having
been given by the said act to value and assess the damages sustained,
and praying relief in the premises; and the same appearing
reasonable, therefore,
(a) There are several acts passed
in 1805 respecting the roads in Harford county,
but it does not appear which is here referred to. |
Damages sustained
by him to be valued. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the commissioners in the said act named, or a majority of them,
be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to value the damages
sustained by the said William Gibson, by reason of said
road running over his land, taking into consideration all advantages
and disadvantages arising therefrom, and make report to the
next levy court thereafter of such valuation, and the same shall be
thereupon levied by the said court, and collected as other county
charges, and paid to the said William Gibson, or order. |
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Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
CHAP. XVII.
An Act to alter and change a part of a Road in Anne-Arundel County.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 158. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to the general assembly,
by the petition
of John Dorsey, of Anne-Arundel county, that the altering
and changing of the road therein mentioned would tend much to
the convenience of the public; therefore, |
John Dorsey authorised
to change
part of a road.
Proviso. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the said John Dorsey be and is hereby authorised and permitted to
alter and change so much of the present road that leads from,
Richard Owing's mills to Elk-Ridge Landing, beginning for the
said alteration on the south side of Elk-Horn Branch, and near
thereunto, and at the place where the new road leave the old road,
and following the tract of the new road, as now laid out and used,
until it intersects the old road; Provided nevertheless, that the
said
John Dorsey shall, at his own proper expense, open and widen the
said road to the width of the old road, and make good all and
every part of the said new road, and when so opened and amended
shall be a public road, and kept in repair in such manner as other
public roads of said county are. |
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Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
CHAP. XVIII.
An Act authorising the Levy Court of Washington County to open a
Road in said County. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 159. |
Levy court may
appoint commissioners
to lay off a
road, &c. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the levy court of Washington county, if they, or a majority of
them, should think that a road leading from the south termination
of Jonathan-street, in Hager's-town, to intersect the road leading |
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