ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1804.

Belle-Air, and praying that commissioners may be appointed to layout the same from said shop to
intersect the road leading from the Stone House, near Belle-Air, to the lower cross roads at or near
the mouth of Harry Cough's lane; and the same being considered reasonable, therefore,

C H A P.
VIII.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland. That Parker Hall Lee, Abraham Jarrett,
William Wilson, of William, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a ma-
jority of them, are hereby authorised and empowered to review the private road now leading from
John Bull's blacksmith's shop, near. Thomas's run, to Belle- Air, through the lands of Henry Waters,
Henry Ruff, senior, Henry Ruff, junior, the heirs of James Gain, Henry Dorsey and John Moores,
to intersect the road leading from the Stone House, near Belle-Air, to the lower cross roads, at or
near the mouth of Harry Gough's lane, and to lay out, survey, mark and bound the same, not ex-
ceeding forty feet in width, except so far and such parts thereof as now run through the cleared
lands of the persons aforesaid, and to make a plot of the said road, when laid out, surveyed, mark-
ed and bounded, including the said parts which run through the cleared land aforesaid, and return
such plot, under their hands and seals, to the clerk of Harford county, to be by him recorded among
the land records of the county; and the levy court of said county, at any meeting after the said
plot shall have been recorded, are hereby authorised and empowered to appoint a supervisor to open
and clear, and repair the said road; and the said levy court are hereby further authorised and em-
powered to levy and assess upon the assessable property of said county, a sum of money in their
opinion sufficient to survey, open and clear said road; and the said road, when surveyed, opened
and cleared, shall be a public road, and shall thereafter be kept in repair as other public roads in
said county are kept in repair.

Commissioners
appointed, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners aforesaid shall be and they are hereby enti-
tled to receive two dollars each for every clay they shall respectively attend to the discharge of the
duties required by this act, and the levy court are hereby empowered to assess and levy the same as
other public monies are assessed and levied.

CHAP. IX.

Their allow-
ance.

A Further supplement to an act, entitled, An act relating to public
roads in this state, and to repeal the ads of assembly therein men-
tioned.

Passed Janua-
ry 5, 1805.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Montgomery county
be and they are hereby authorised, annually to levy, by equal assessment on the assessable pro-
perty within the said county, a sum of money, not exceeding three shillings and nine-pence on
every hundred pounds of assessable property in the said county, to be collected as other county taxes,
and paid to the justices of the levy court, or to their order, and shall be applied towards straighten-
ing and amending the public roads in said county in such manner as is directed by the act to which
this is a supplement.

Court to levy
money, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the original act, as far as the same relates to Mont-
gomery county, that is contrary to the tenor of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

C IT A P X

Part of an act
repealed.

AN ACT for the benefit of William Henry Lansdale and Thomas
Reeder Lansdale, children of Mary Lansdale, of Saint-Mary's
county.

Passed Janua-
ry 5, 1805

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Mary Lansdale, of
Saint-Mary's county, that her two children, William Henry Lansdale and Thomas Reeder
Lansdale, are entitled, under the will of their uncle Thomas Reeder, to two small tracts or parcels
of land lying in the county aforesaid, containing one hundred and fifty acres : And whereas, it is
also represented, that the annual value of the said land, clear of the payment of an annuity to which
it is subjeded by the will of the late doctor Henry Reeder, deceased, grandfather to the said children,
amounts but to the sum of three pounds ten shillings, and that great advantages would arise to the
said children, in their future maintenance and education, from the pass.age of a law authorising the
sale of the said two small tracts or parcels of land; therefore,

Preamble,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the orphans court of Saint-Mary's
county shall have full power and authority, upon application of the said Mary Lansdale, and on the

Court may or-
der a sale, &c