470 Assembly Proceedings, May 8-June 2, 1750.

Liber B. L. C.

at the clearing of the Highways; any Law, Usage, or Custom, here-
tofore to the contrary notwithstanding.

26^th May 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M Macnemara Q lo ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this Be a Law.
Sam Ogle

the great Seal in
Wax appendant

1^st June 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly.
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl Up. Ho.

No. 15

An Act to impower the Justices of Prince George's County Court,
for the Time being, to treat and agree with an Undertaker or
Undertakers to stop a Breach now made from the North- West
Branch of Patuxent River in said County, across the main Road
in Queen Anne Town in said County; and to levy on the taxable
Inhabitants thereof a Sum of Money, for the Purposes therein
mentioned.

[Justices to
agree with
the Under-
taker, &c.]

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the
same, That the Justices of Prince George's County Court, for the
Time being, or the major Part of them, at their Court to be held in

p. 498

the Months of June or August next, shall and may, if they judge
necessary and convenient, treat and agree with an Undertaker or
Undertakers to stop a Breach now made from the North- West
Branch of Patuxent River in the said County, across the main Road
in Queen Anne Town in the said County: And that when the said
Breach is compleatly stopped and finished, according to the Agree-
ment so as aforesaid to be made between the Justices aforesaid, or
the major Part of them, and the Undertaker or Undertakers so to be
agreed with to the Purpose aforesaid; it shall and may be lawful for
the Justices of the said County Court for the Time being, and they
are by this Act authorized, impowered, and directed, at their next
November County Court after compleating the same Work, to assess

[And to levy
50 l. for that
Purpose.]

and levy on the taxable Inhabitants of the said County, a Sum not
exceeding fifty Pounds Current Money, together with the Sheriff's
Salary of five per Cent for Collection; and when the same is so as-
sessed and levied, to pay the same to the Order or Orders of the Jus-
tices aforesaid, or the major Part of them, who are hereby im-
powered and directed to give such Order or Orders accordingly.

26^th May 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M Macnemara Q lo. ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this Be a Law
Sam. Ogle

the great Seal in
Wax appendant

1 June 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Ci Up Ho.