| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
person or persons may sustain through whose land the said road
may pass, by laying out, opening, and clearing the same; and shall
make and return to the levy court of said county a certificate of
such valuation, the amount of which shall be levied by said court
on the assessable property of said county, and paid to the person
or persons entitled thereto. |
1816.
CHAP. 40. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
be allowed
the sum of two dollars each per day as a compensation for their services. |
Commissioners' allowance. |
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CHAP. XLI.
An Act to straighten and make public a Road in Prince George's
County. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 177. |
Passed Jan. 3, 1817. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Prince-George's county, that it will
greatly conduce to the convenience of the people of that part of
said county, to straighten and make public the road leading from
the Piscataway road, near John Palmer's tavern, passing through
the land between the lands of the late Peter Savary and William
Bayne, senior, and intersecting the road from Upper Marlborough
to Thomas Berry's ferry, at Francis Perkins's; and the prayer of
the petitioners appearing reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
George H. Lanham, Thomas Berry and Edward C. Edlin, be,
and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority
of them, are hereby authorised and empowered to review
the private road now leading from the Piscataway road, near John
Palmer's tavern, passing through the land between the lands of the
late Peter Savary and William Bayne, senior, and intersecting the
road from Upper Marlborough to Thomas Berry's ferry, at Francis
Perkins's, and the same to straighten, lay out, survey, mark
and bound, not exceeding thirty feet in width, and to make a plot
of said road, when so straightened, laid out, surveyed, marked
and bounded, and return the same, under their hands and seals, to
the clerk of Prince George's county court, to be by him recorded
among the land records of said county; and the levy court of said
county, at any meeting after the said plot shall have been returned
and recorded as aforesaid, are hereby authorised and empowered
to appoint a supervisor or supervisors to keep said road in repair,
as other public roads are in said county; and the said levy court are
hereby further authorised and empowered to levy and assess, upon
the assessable property of said county, at the time of laying their
next county levy, a sum of money in their opinion sufficient to defray
the expense arising in the execution of this act. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
road. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a
majority of them, shall ascertain and value the damages which
any person or persons may sustain through whose land the said
road may pass, by straightening, laying, out, opening, and clearing
the same, and shall make and return to the levy court of said county,
a certificate of such valuation, the amount of which shall be
levied by said court on the assessable property of said county, and
paid to the person or persons entitled thereto. |
Damages to be ascertained. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
be allowed
the sum of two dollars each per day as a compensation for their
services. |
Commissioners allowance. |
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