The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1813-08-25

OF the cic,k of the said circuit court,
ana enrolled among the land records
OF the county OF Washington and the
sara commissioners, or any two of them,
being qualified as aforesaid, shall upon the
request OF the said president and directors,
cause 10 be surveyed, laid out, ascertaincd,
descrlSed and marked, by certain metes
ana bounds OF the aforesaid turnpike road,
described III the hrst section of this act, not
less than sixty feet in breath, i'm such
routes, tracts or courses, for the same res
PecuVciy, as, In the best OF their Judgment
VIII combine shortness Of distance with the
most convenient ground, and the smallest
expense OF money; and Tor this purpose it
shall be lawful for them, and such agents,
assistants, servants, or attendants, as thew
may think proper to employ, TO enter up.
on any oil tile lands through or near which
the SAID road may be laid out !; having first
given twenty days public notice, i'm some
pubic newspaper, printed in the district of
Columbia, ct tho time and place of their
entering on the saiu business of surveying.
and laying out such road respectively and
II any proprietor of any part OF the lands,
through which the said road NAV be laid
out, Shall require compensation for SO much
oi his or her said land, as may be occupied
by the said road, or shall claim DAMAGES
tor or on account Of the opening or LAYING
out OF said road through his or her land
and it tho said president and directors can.
not agree with such proprietors respect
ing the same, then the said commissioners.
at the request OF either party, shall appoint
day and place to hear and decide unop
such claim, and the amount OF compensa
tlon and damages which such proorie,or
shall be entitled to receive from the said
president, directors, and company thereof,
lirst giving twenty days notice TO the adj
verse party, his or her agent, or attorney
IN TACT, or other legal representative, if eli
Their Shall be within the district of Colum
bla ; and 1t the party so rotiGed Shall fail
to attend, or If the party shall be all infan,
uhder age, non compos mcntiS, fene Govern
or absent out Of the district of Columbia and
have no agent or legal representative there
In, then the said commissioners NAV nro.
coed ex parte to hear and decide the same
ana inc award OF Them or any two of them.
made in writing signed by them, or anv two
OF them, stall by them be returned tn the,
Office OF the clerk CT the said court for IN.
county oil Washington, within ten days af
ter such hearing, and copy thereof shall
within ten days after such return be served
upon such OF the parties as are residents IT.
the district OF Columbia; and if such A.
ward be not, at the session of the said cir
cut court III the county of WASHINGTON,
next alter such return OF the said award to
The Clerks oiilcc, be set aside on account
OF fraud or partiality in the said comm,s.
sloners, or other cause deemed sufficient
IN The opinion OF the court, the same shall
be hnal and conclusive between the OAR
ties' & shall be recorded by the said clerk
and The sum so awarded being paid TO
inc sad clerk Tor the use of the person en-.
tii'cd TO receive the same, the said land
mentioned and described in the said awara
snail and may be taken and occupied as n
turnpike road and public highway forever:
and the said commissioners, upon COM
pieting the said survey of the said road,
shall return plat and certificate of such
survey to the said clerk, and the same be-
ing accepted ty the said court shall be re
corded by the said clerk, and thereupon
the road so laid out shall be taken, used asd
occupied as turnpike road and public
highway forever: and the said president,
directors and company may thereupon pro.
coed to enter upon the same and shall
cause at least twenty-four feet IN breadth,
throughout the whole length thereof, 10 be
made an artificial road of stone, gravel or
o'nef hard substance, of sufficient depth or
thickness to secure a solid and firm road,
WIN the surface as smooth as the materials
VIII admit, and so nealy level that 1t shall
III no case rise or tall more than an angle
OF tour degrees with a horizontal line, and
the said ROAD shall thereafter be kept in
good and perfect repair and wheresoever
upon the said road any bridge shall be
deemed necessary the same shall be built