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Description and Holding Information
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Joint Standing Comm. on Roads and Bridges. Act relating to the duties of County Commissioners, 1841
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Senate No. 18 On February 4, 1841, the Joint Standing Committee on Roads and Bridges presented a bill: An Act relating to the duties of County
Commissioners, 1841. When County Commissioners estimated an amount to be paid for a right of way, no money could be paid until possession was taken and
work begun. That way, if plans suddenly changed, no money had changed hands. A land owner could still appeal any estimate. (Digitized from a
microfilm copy of title originally held by the Massachusetts State Library).
Senate No. 26 In this version, the same reasoning is applied to highway
repairs. If a repair will likely damage someone's property, there would be no payment until the repair was actually completed. (Digitized from a
microfilm copy of title originally held by the Library of Congress).
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Title:
Ordered, that the Committee on Roads and Bridges be instructed to inquire into the expediency and necessity of providing by law, that damages awarded on the location or alteration of highways, shall not be paid or liable to be demanded, until the land over which the way is laid is actually taken and used, by the working of the way ...
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