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and containing about twenty acres, of which the said Charles Philpott died seized, and after such
sale to make a good and sufficient deed of conveyance to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, on pay-
ment of the purchase money, on such terms as to her the said Elizabeth Philpott may seem most con-
ducive and advantageous to the estate, provided that she give public notice, by causing the same to
be advertised in some public paper, of the time, place, manner and terms, of the sale, at least four
successive weeks before the day of sale, and that the proceeds thereof be accounted for with the or-
phans court of Frederick county, in the same manner as though it were returned in ah inventory,
and that the said Elizabeth Philpott, before she proceeds to the sale of the land aforesaid, shall en-
ter into bond to the state of Maryland, in such sum, and with such security, as the orphans court of
said county shall approve, conditioned that she shall well and truly apply the proceeds thereof to the
discharge of just debts due from her intestate aforesaid, which said bond shall be lodged with the re-
gister of the orphans court, and may be prosecuted, it necessary, by any person Interested, in the
same manner that administrators bonds now are.
CHAP. LV.
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CHAP.
LIV.
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An ACT to lay out and straighten a certain Rood in Harford County.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of
Harford county, that the convenience of the public would be greatly promoted by laying out
a new road from the fork of the road in Stephen Rigdon's lane to William Clark's ford on Deer creek,
and by straightening; and amending the old road from thence until it shall conveniently intersect the
road leading from Underhill's mill to Belle-Air; therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, fa the General Assembly of Maryland, That Parker Hall Lee, Joshua Rutledge
and Jacob Albert, be and they are hereby appointee commissioners, ami they, or a majority of them,
are hereby authorised to lay out a road from the fork of the road in Stephen Rigdon's lane to William
Clark's ford on Deer creek, on the straightest and best direction that the nature of the ground will
admit off so as to injure private property as little as may be to comport with the public good, and
the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised to lay out, straighten and
amend, the road now open from the aforesaid ford on Deer creek, until it shall conveniently inter-
sect the road leading from Underhill's mill to Belle-Air, on the nearest and best direction that shall
appear to them most conducive to the public good, so as to, injure private property as little as maybe,
so as the same shall not be laid out nor straightened to run through the yard, orchard or garden, of
any person or persons, without his, her or their consent; and the said commissioners, or a majority
of them, shall cause a survey of the road, so by them laid out, to be made, and a plot thereof to be
returned to the clerk's office of Harford county court, there to be recorded.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of said county be and it is hereby empowered, at
the next meeting thereof, or at any other meeting after the aforesaid plot shall be returned, to ap-
point an overseer to clear and open said road, and to levy such sum of money as, in the discretion of
said court, shall be considered reasonable, for the purpose of opening and clearing the aforesaid
road, and the same shall be deemed thereafter a public road, and kept in repair as other public roads
in said county are kept in repair.
IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners shall be entitled to receive as a compen-
sation the sum of two dollars for each and every day they shall attend in discharge of the duties
required of them by this act.
V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the damages, if any, sustained by the Individuals over whose land
the said road herein directed to be laid out ami straightened may run, shall be ascertained according
to the provisions contained in the eleventh -section of an act, entitled, An act to straighten and
amend the public roads in Harford county, and for other purposes, and the same, when ascertained
in manner aforesaid, shall be levied, collected and paid, as other county charges are levied, collected
and paid..
CHAP. LVI.
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Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.
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An ACT to empower the Inhabitants of the Town of Havre-de-Grace
to elect the Commissioners thereof.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all the inhabitants of the town of Ha-
vre-de-Grace, entitled by law to vote for delegates to the general assembly, shall meet in said,
town, at such place as may hereafter be appointed, and elect by ballot five sensible, wise and discreet
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Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810,
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