394 Assembly Proceedings, March 23-April 19, 1774.

Liber R. G.
1774

Year any former Law to the Contrary thereof in anywise Not-
withstanding

By the lower house of
Assembly April 18.^th 1774
Read and assented to
Signed by order
Jn.^o Duckett Cl. Up.r Ho .
2 1/2 sides

On Behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I Will this be a Law
Rob.^t Eden

the great seal
in wax appendant

By the Upper house of
Assembly April 18.^th 1774
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
James Brooks Cl up^r Ho

No. 21

p. 345

An Act relating to the Public Roads in Ann Arundle, Baltimore, and
Frederick Counties

[Preamble.]

Whereas an improvement of the Principal market roads in the
said counties will render the intercourse and carriage between the
Parts of this Province distant from Navigation and the Places
from whence the produce of those parts are and may be most
conveniently exported much easier and Cheaper whereby Trade will
be encreased and the settlement cultivation and Improvement of lands
will be encouraged and promoted

[Part of the
Bills of
Credit ap-
propriated
for Loan to
Anne-
Arundel,
Baltimore,
& Frederick
Counties, to
be laid out in
opening,
straighten-
ing, &c.
the Roads
in said
Counties.]

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
by and with the advice and consent of his Governor and the Upper
and lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same that
Part of the Bills of Credit to be Emitted by virtue of the Act entitled
an Act for emitting bills of Credit and applying part thereof and
by the same act appropriated for loan to the Inhabitants of Ann
Arundle County as such not exceeding two Thousand dollars shall
be and are hereby appropriated for loan to [Ann] Arundel County
That Part of the Bills of Credit to be emitted by virtue of the same
Act and by the said Act appropriated for loan to the Inhabitants of
Baltimore County as such not Exceeding Ten Thousand Six hun-
dred and sixty Dollars and two Third parts of a Dollar shall be
and are hereby Appropriated for loan to Baltimore County and that
Part of the Bills of Credit to be emitted by virtue of the said Act and
by the same act appropriated for loan to the Inhabitants of Frederick
County as such not exceeding eight Thousand Dollars shall be and
are hereby appropriated for loan to Frederick County and shall be
laid out and expended in opening Streightning widening repairing
and putting in good Order the roads herein after mentioned that is to
say the road leading from the Mouth of Conegochiage creek to
Frederick Town crossing the Southmountain, at the gapp commonly
called Turners Gap, the road from Haggars Town to intersect the
said Road at or near the Western side of the South mountain the
road from Frederick Town leading by Dowden's to Georgetown a
Road from the mouth of Watts's branch to George Town aforesaid
the road from Fredrick Town leading over Rue's ford on Monocasy
and crossing Patuxint river at Green's bridge to Annapolis the road
from Fredrick Town leading over the said ford on Monocasy and