LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 94.

An act to open a road from John Cains tavern, to Berlin,
in Frederick county.
Section 1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That Patrick Magill, Grafton Du-
vall, Benjamin West, James S. Hook and Theodore
Beall be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners,
and they or a majority of them are hereby authorised
as commissioners to lay out and open at the expense of
the petitioners for said road or such of them as may be
willing to contribute thereto, a road not exceeding thirty
feet in width, beginning at or opposite the tavern of John
Cain, on the main Harper's Ferry Road, from thence
passing between the lands of Abraham Easterday and
Perry Hilleary, thence along the lane dividing the lands
of George Dutterow and Theodore Mitchell to Benjamin
Rice's merchant and saw mills, thence through the
lands of Thorn as Hawkins, by the widow Nyswongers
to Thomas Frazier's and along his land as now establish-
ed to James Fenley's spring, thence to the mouth of the
lane dividing the land of Roger Nelson and Tobias Belt,
thence as the road now runs to Berlin on the river Poto-
mac: Provided, that the said road shall not be laid out
through any building, orchard, garden, yard or meadow
of any person without his or her consent in writing first
had and obtained.

Dec. Sess.
1813.

Passed Jan.

20, 1814.

Commission-
ers to lay out
said road.
Width and di-
rection.

Proviso.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said
commissioners or a majority of them shall and they are
hereby directed and required to make or cause to be
made, a plot of the said road when surveyed as afore-
said, and shall make return of the said plat, together with
a certificate of the courses of the said road to the clerk
of Frederick county, to be recorded among the records
of said county, and when the same shall have been laid
out, surveyed, marked and bounded as directed by this
act, the said road shall forever thereafter be deemed a
public highway, and shall be kept in repair at the public
expense as other public roads of Frederick county are.

CHAPTER 95.

Plat.

An act for the relief of Benjamin Murrow, of Allegany
county.
WHEREAS, it appears by the petition of Benjamin
Murrow, of Allegany county, that a certain James Glen
purchased of Thomas Beall, of Samuel) a certain piece
of land in the town of Cumberland, distinguished by lot
number two hundred and forty four, and received a deed
for the same from the said Beall: And whereas, the said
Glen deeded the said piece of land, lot number two hun-
dred and fourty four, to Benjamin Murrow, on the thir-
teenth day of November, eighteen hundred and thirteen :
And whereas, the said Glen was an alien when he receiv-
ed the deed from Beall, but was naturalized agreeably

Passed Jan.

1814.

Preamble.