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CHAP. 53.
How vacancies are
to be filled. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of death
or resignation,
refusal or disqualification to act, of any of the persons chosen directors,
at any time hereafter, it shall and may be lawful for the
said other directors to meet as soon as conveniently may be thereafter,
at their place of meeting as aforesaid, and choose a person
in his stead to act as director till the next annual meeting of the said
proprietors, and if any two directors therein disagree in such choice,
they shall determine the same by drawing lots for the persons put in
nomination, and the person in whose favour the matter shall be so determined,
shall be and he is hereby declared a director, to all intents
and purposes, until the succeeding annual election. |
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Passed Jan. 25, 1806. |
CHAP. LIV.
A Further Additional Supplement to an act (a) entitled, An
act for
marking and bounding Lands.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 57.
(a) 1786, ch. 33. See 1808, ch. 46. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS by the accretion of lands bounding on the
water within
the limits of the city of Baltimore, it becomes difficult to ascertain
the original location, and many disputes originate and are promoted
thereby: And whereas it is doubtful whether there exists any
legal means by which the said accretion may be ascertained and
perpetuated; |
City commissioners
authorised to
hear testimony to
prove where water
extended at
any former period. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the
city commissioners of the city of Baltimore shall have the same
power and authority to receive and hear testimony to prove where
any of the water within the said city and precincts extended at
any former period, and also the ground that has been made by individuals,
or acquired by the natural alluvion of the said water, or
the washings of the streets, lanes and alleys, of said city, as the
said commissioners now have to establish the bounds of the said
streets, lots, lanes and alleys.
See 1817, ch. 148. |
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CHAP. LV.
An Act to lay out and straighten a certain Road in Baltimore County.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 58. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Baltimore county, that the convenience
of the public would be greatly promoted by straightening and
amending the road now opened and used, leading from George Beam's
tavern, on the Reister's-town turnpike road, to Albert Seacamp's
mill, and from thence to intersect the Liberty-town road; therefore, |
Commissioners
appointed to lay
out, straighten
and amend a road. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Thomas Gorsuch, of Loveless, Thomas Baysman and doctor John
Cromwell, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out,
straighten and amend, the road now open from George Beam's to
the mill of Albert Seacamp, and from thence to the Liberty-town
road, on the nearest and best direction that shall appear unto them
to be most conducive to the good of the petitioners, and the public
at large, the width of said road not exceeding thirty feet; and the
road when so laid out, straightened and amended, and the valuation
herein after directed to be made shall have taken place, shall
be recorded by the clerk of Baltimore county court, and shall for
ever be deemed and taken to be a public highway, and be kept in
repair as other public roads in said county. |
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