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

Liber R. G.
1774

Greist Zachariah M.^cCubbins senior and Benjamin Wells senior
shall be supervisors and whereon Sixteen hundred of the said
Dollars before appropriated for Loan for Baltimore County or such
Part thereof as may be necessary shall and may be expended That
such part of the said Road as leads from Baltimore Town to the
Province line in a Streight direction to York shall be in one other
district whereof Benjamin Griffith James Gittings and Nicholas
Merryman shall be supervisors and on the said Part of the same
road four Thousand of the said Dollars before appropriated for
loan to Baltimore County or such Part thereof as may be necessary
shall be expended the road leading from Baltimore Town to Roysters
shall be in one other district whereof Alexander Wells Samuel
Owengs junior and Jesse Hottingsworth shall be Supervisors and
on the said Part of the same road twenty four hundred of the said
Dollars before appropriated for loan to Baltimore County or such
part thereof as may be Necessary shall and may be expended the
Road leading from Roysters towards Hanover as far as the Pro-
vincial line shall be in One other district whereof Richard Richards
Samuel Worthington and Nathan Cromwell shall be supervisors and
on the said Part of the same Road sixteen hundred dollars before
appropriated for loan to Baltimore County or such part thereof as
may be necessary shall and may be expended That such part of the
road leading from Roysters through the Pipe Creek Settlement to
the Catoctin mountain as shall be in Baltimore County shall be in

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one other district whereof Doctor John Craddock Mordecai Ham-
mond and Christopher Owing shall be supervisors and on the said
part of the same road One Thousand Sixty six dollars and two
thirds Parts of a Dollar of the said dollars before appropriated for
loan to Baltimore County or such part thereof as may be necessary
shall and may be expended

[Super-
visors to
straighten or
change the
Roads, and
cause them
to be cleared,
&c.]

And be it further Enacted that the said Supervisors or any two
of them in their respective districts aforesaid are hereby empowered
to Streighten or otherwise change the said Roads in such places and
Manner as to them shall appear most convenient for carriage not
going in or through any Building Yard Garden or Orchard without
the License and consent of the Proprietor and Possessor thereof,
and the said Supervisors or any two of them in their respective
districts aforesaid may and shall cause all the said Roads so to be
made and continued Public Roads by virtue of this Act to be well
cleared grubbed and stoned forty feet wide except the said Road
leading to Annapolis which shall be cleared grubbed and stoned as
aforesaid thirty feet wide and shall cause necessary Bridges and
Causeys to be made and convenient Trenches and Ditches to be cut
for draining and heading off the Water from the said Roads and
shall also cause large posts to be well set up in the Middle of the
said Road from Watts's Branch to George town or untill it inter-