Acts. 409

Dollars for their Service and trouble to M.^r John Clapham two
Hundred Dollars and to M.^r William Eddis One Hundred Dollars
and the Clerk of the said Commissioners shall be allowed two Hun-
dred Dollars out of the said Eighty Thousand Dollars for his Service
and trouble and for the service and trouble of M.^r Robert Couden
one of the late Commissioners there shall be allowed and payed to
him out of the Same Eighty Thousand Dollars the Number of One
Hundred Dollars

Liber R. G.
1774

By the Lower house of
Assembly April 19.^th 1774
Read and Assented to
Signed by order
Jn.^o Duckett Cl. Lo Ho .
4 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 19.^th 1774
Read and Assented to
Signed by order
James Brooks Cl Up.^r Ho

No. 25 An Act requiring the Justices of Somerset County to appoint Persons
to lay out a Road in said County

p. 357

Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly that the Road
leading to the Free School in Somerset County is very inconvenient
to the Visitors Scholars and others to go to Said School from
Worcester County therefore Pray an Act may pass for a Road to
be laid out from said School to Denstons Dams through the forest
which will make said Road much more convenient to the Visitors
Scholars &c.

[Preamble.]

Be it therefore 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 the Justices of Somerset County shall and they
are hereby required at their next Court to appoint an overseer for
(and cause to be laid out well grubed and Cleared) a Publick Road
through the Forrest to intersect the main Road Leading from
Princess Ann to Snow Hill at or near a Place called Denstons Dams
not runing the same Road through any Improved or Cultivated
land without the Consent of the owner or owners thereof the said
Road to be cleared repaired and kept in the same manner as other
Publick Roads are or have been Cleared repaired or kept in Order.

[Justices of
Somerset
County to
appoint an
Overseer to
lay out a
Road, &c.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly April 19.^th 1774
Read and Assented to,
Signed by Order
Jn.^o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho
3 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 19.^th 1774
Read and Assented to
Signed by order
James Brooks Cl. Upr Ho