ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1807.

CHAP. CXLVI.

An ACT to alter the time for holding the county court of Montgo-
mery county.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That in future the fall session of the county
court for the county of Montgomery shall be held on the second Monday in the month of No-
vember yearly, and every year.

CHAP. CXLVII.

Court, when to
be held.

A Further supplement to the act, entitled, An ad: to incorporate
companies to make several turnpike roads through Baltimore county,
and for other purposes.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assem-bly, that the Baltimore and York turnpike
road, as laid out by the commissioners of review in 'Baltimore county, between the Western
run and the Pennsylvania line, have laid out the said road on a straight line, although it passes over
extreme high rocky hills and precipices, and by varying or altering the course from one to eight
perches in a few places, would lay it out on better ground, not lengthen the course, and save con-
siderable sums of money to the corporation; therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the president and managers of said
corporation shall and they are hereby authorised and directed, to make any alteration in the York
turnpike road, as confirmed by the commissioners of review, from the Western run aforesaid to the
Pennsylvania line, so as the said turnpike road shall not vary from the bed or course of the road,
as laid out by the commissioners of review more than eight perches, and shall again return into the
bed or course of the said road as soon as convenient; and when the said road shall be so altered and
laid out, two correct plots thereof shall be made out, one to be returned to the clerk of Baltimore
county, and one to the register of the city of Baltimore, to be by them recorded amongst their
records.
CHAP. CXLVIII.

President, &c.
may make any
alteration, &c.

An ACT to provide for the making passable through Baltimore
county the public road laid out from the city of Baltimore to the
town of Belle-Air, in Harford county, and the public road laid
out from Gravelly hill, on the Reister's-town turnpike road, to
Philemon Barnes's plantation on the Frederick county line.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of Balti-
more county, after the first, day of February next, shall employ not exceeding one third part of
the number of the criminals labouring on the public roads of Baltimore county, in opening, repair-
ing, and making passable for carriages of burthen through Baltimore county, the aforesaid public
road now laid out from the city of Baltimore to the town of Belle-Air, in Harford county, and shall
employ the remaining part of said criminals in opening, repairing, and making passable for carriages
of burthen through Baltimore county, the aforesaid public road leading from Gravelly hill, on the
Reister's-town turnpike road, to Philemon Barnes's plantation on the Frederick county line.

Justices to em-
ploy only one
third of the cri-
minals, &c.

LL AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said justices of the levy court, or a majority of them, shall
and they are hereby directed to view and inspect that part of said road leading from Baltimore-town
to Belle-Air which crosses two large hills at the White Marsh run, and that part thereof passing
from the south side of the Great Falls of Gunpowder to or near the mouth of Mr. Gough's lane on
said road, and to change the location, course and direction, of the said road thereat, in such mam
ner as to them shall seem right and proper for the promotion of the public convenience, which said
changes and alterations, when made as aforesaid, shall be deemed and considered, to all intents and
purposes, as the original location or course of said road; and the said justices of the levy court shall
cause a plot of said alterations and changes to be returned to the office of the clerk of Baltimore-
county, to be recorded as the plots of other public roads are; and the said justices of the levy court
of Baltimore county are hereby authorised and empowered to shut up such parts of the said last
mentioned public road as may be rendered useless by the said alterations and changes.

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And view part
of the road, &c.