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"By the Upper House of Assembly, December 11, 1773: Read the
First Time and ordered to lie on the Table.
Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho.
By the Upper House of Assembly, December 13, 1773: Read the
Second Time and will pass with the annexed Amendments.
Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho."
"Provided always, That before the said Road shall be opened and
established, the Inhabitants of the aforesaid Hundred shall by Peti-
tion apply to the Justices of Baltimore County Court, to appoint
Three disinterested and substantial Freeholders of the said County
for laying out the said Road, and ascertaining and allowing to the
Owner or Owners of the Soil through which the said Road shall be
opened and established, such a Sum of Current Money as shall be a
full Recompence to such Owner or Owners, for the Damage and
Inconvenience which shall happen to him, her, or them, from the
opening and establishing such Road, and the said Freeholders who
shall be appointed by the said Justices, shall before they proceed to
open and lay out such Road, and ascertain and allow such Recom-
pence to the Owner or Owners as aforesaid, take an Oath to do their
Duty in this Behalf without Favour or Prejudice to the best of their
Skill and Judgment: And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That after opening and laying out the Road aforesaid, and ascer-
taining and allowing a Sum of Money for the Purpose of such
Recompence as aforesaid to the Owner or Owners of the said Soil,
the said Freeholders shall return a full Certificate thereof to the
next County Court of the said County, and the Justices of the
said County Court shall at the next November Court after the Re-
turn of such Certificate, assess rateably on the taxable Inhabitants
of the said Hundred, the Sum ascertained and allowed as aforesaid
to the Owner or Owners of the Soil aforesaid by the Freeholders
aforesaid, with the Public and County Levies, together with Five
per Cent to the Sheriff for Collection, which said Sum shall be col-
lected by the Sheriff of Baltimore County of the taxable Inhabitants
of the said Hundred, in like Manner as other Levies are by Law
collected, and paid to the Owner or Owners of the Soil aforesaid
without Deduction."
And a Petition of sundry of the Inhabitants of George-Town, on
Potowmack, setting forth that since the Expiration of the late In-
spection Law, the old Houses being insufficient for storing all the
Tobacco which came to Rock-Creek Warehouse, a new House for
holding Tobacco was built last Year by the Subscribers at their own
Cost and Expence, on a Lot of Mr. Normand Bruce's in a very con-
venient and safe Part of the Town, sufficient to hold about Seven
Hundred Hogsheads of Tobacco, greatly preferable in Situation to
the old Houses, and therefore praying that an Act may pass ap-
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Votes and
Proceedings
of the Lower
House,
printed by
A. C. Green
Dec. 14
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