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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XLIV.
A Supplement to an act, * entitled, An act for introducing a copious
supply of wholesome Water in the city of Baltimore.
Lib. TH.
No. 1, fol. 43.
This act repealed by 1808, ch. 79. |
1805.
CHAP. 44.
Passed Jan. 25, 1806.
* 1804, ch. 86. |
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CHAP. XLV.
An Act for the support of Solomon Jones and Wife. Lib.
TH. No. 1,
fol. 45. |
Passed Jan. 25, 1806. |
WHEREAS Solomon Jones, of Dorchester county, by
his petition
to this general assembly hath set forth, that he has spent many of
his younger years in the military service of his country, and is
now upwards of seventy-three years of age, having a wife nearly
the same, and both of them very infirm, so as not to be able to obtain
a livelihood by their labour, he therefore prays that an act
may pass to provide for the support of said Solomon Jones and
wife out of the poor-house; and the facts stated in said petition appearing
true, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court of Dorchester county shall and they
are hereby empowered, at their levy court annually, so long as
they may see cause, to assess and levy on said county a sum of money,
not exceeding the sum of thirty dollars to each of them, for the
support and maintenance of the said Solomon Jones and wife. |
Levy for support
of Solomon Jones
and wife. |
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CHAP. XLVI.
An Act to lay out and open a Road from the Pennsylvania line to
the
Susquehanna Canal, in Cecil County. Lib. TH.
No. 1, fol. 46.
A Supplement, 1806, ch. 89. |
Passed Jan. 25, 1806. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Lancaster county, in Pennsylvania,
and of Cecil county, Maryland, that a road leading from the warehouse
at the north end of the Susquehanna canal to the Pennsylvania
line, where the lands late of Alexander Ewing deceased, are
situated on said line, would be of great public utility and advantage;
therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Robert love, Jacob Conrad, junior, and Andrew Dunbar, or a majority
of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to
survey, lay out and open, at the expense of such persons as may
think proper to contribute thereto, a road, not exceeding thirty feet
in width, in the straightest and best direction that the nature of the
ground will admit of, from the warehouse aforesaid to that part of
Alexander Ewing's land aforesaid where a public road from Lancaster
passes through said land, and return the certificate of survey
thereof to the clerk of Cecil county court, to be by him recorded;
and the said road, when so opened, and the survey recorded as
aforesaid, and the valuation herein after directed shall have been
paid, or secured to be paid, shall for ever thereafter be deemed a
public highway, and kept in repair in the same manner as other
public roads in said county are kept in repair. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
and open a road. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or a
majority of them, shall ascertain and value the damages that may
be sustained by each and every person or persons through whose
land the said road may pass, by opening the same, and the valuation |
Damages to be ascertained. |
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