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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
that they will, without favour, affection, prejudice or partiality,
assess the damages sustained by the person or persons at whose request
such inquisition shall be taken, by reason of opening the
aforesaid road through his land, shall thereupon proceed to assess
and value the damages accordingly, of which the said commissioners
shall have had at least five days previous notice, and shall return
the damages so assessed to the said justice of the peace, and such
inquisition and valuation shall be final and conclusive; and the party
or parties in whose favour the valuation ascertained by the said
commissioners, or the damages assessed by the said freeholders,
shall be made, shall be entitled to receive the same from the said
commissioners, and the said commissioners shall pay, or secure to
be paid, the amount of said valuation or damages to the respective
parties entitled to the same, before they shall proceed to affect the
lands of the person or persons concerned. |
1805.
CHAP. 52. |
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CHAP. LIII.
An Act for draining part of a Branch of Tuckahoe, known by the
name of Beaver Dam Branch, lying in Queen Anne's County.
Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 53. |
Passed Jan. 25, 1806. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants, that they are possessed of part of a valuable
branch in Tuckahoe, called Beaver Dam Branch, lying in
Queen Anne's county, and as there is good reason to believe that
very great advantage might be derived, as well to the public as the
proprietors of said branch, if the same should be effectually chained,
and as it cannot be well accomplished without the aid of the legislature,
by passing an act to secure the joint exertions of all the
said proprietors: And whereas it appears to this general assembly,
that it will be of public utility to extend the aid of the legislature
in order to accomplish so good an object; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the proprietors of the lands lying on
a branch of Tuckahoe, known by the name of the Beaver Dam
Branch, extending from the road crossing the said branch at the
Beaver Dam causeway until it shall intersect the main ditch of Long
Marsh, to meet on the first Monday of April in each and every year
herein after, at a village known by the name of Beaver Dam, or at
any other place which a majority of the proprietors may appoint,
in Queen Anne's county, and for such proprietors, or a majority
of those who shall attend at the said meeting, then and there annually
to elect, by ballot, three of the said proprietors for directors,
who, when so elected and chosen, are hereby authorised and empowered,
or any two of them, to make and open a drain or ditch
down said branch, from the said road, until it shall intersect the
main ditch of Long Marsh aforesaid, in such direction, and of such
width and depth, as they, or a majority of them, may judge most
proper to carry off the water from said branch, (provided the width
does not exceed sixteen feet, or depth three feet,) and reduce the
same to dry land; and the power and authority of said directors, so
to be chosen, shall continue and be in force until the next annual
election of directors. |
Proprietors of
lands to meet and
appoint three directors,
who are
authorised to open
a drain. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the cost, charges,
and expenses,
of cutting and opening said ditch or drain, shall be paid by |
Expenses to be
paid by proprietors. |
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