CHAP.
XXXI.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

In case of death,
&c. others to be
summoned, &c.
 
 
 
 
 

Jury to make a 
return, &c.
 
 

Sums assessed to
be a lien, &c.
 
 

Persons to have
certain rights, 
&c.
 
 
 
 

Passed 3d of 
Jan. 1800.

Court to ap-
point commis-
sioners, &c.

* Chapter 32.

the act to which this is a supplement, already ascertained and estimated the damage which must
accrue to all and any person or persons by the opening of said street, and the said jury when so met,
(and having individually taken an oath, or affirmation, as the case may require, faithfully and impar-
tially to do and perform all the duties imposed upon them by this act to the best of their skill and
knowledge,) proceed to assess and impose the price of the damage aforesaid which must accrue to any
person or persons from the opening of said Second-street, (as ascertained by the proceedings of said
jury, had and done under the act to which this is a supplement, and recorded in the register's office
of the city of Baltimore,) upon all and every person or persons holding houses or lots in and upon 
Second-street, between South-street and Frederick-street, and upon all and every other person or 
persons holding houses or lots on South-street, who in their judgment and conscience will or may
derive any particular benefit by the opening of said Second-street.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the persons composing the said jury, or any of them, shall be
dead, sick, or absent from the city of Baltimore, at the time which may in virtue of this act be ap-
pointed by the sheriff aforesaid for the meeting of the said jury, then and in such case the said sheriff
is hereby authorised and required to summon other persons, qualified according to the act to which
this is a supplement, to make up the jury to the number of twelve, and the said jury, when thus made
up, and being qualified, sworn, or having affirmed as aforesaid, shall have full power and authority to
perform all the acts and duties imposed upon the said jury by this act, in case the same was composed
of all the persons who originally acted under the act to which this is a supplement.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the jury aforesaid shall make a return of their proceedings had
in virtue of this act, under their hands and seals, into the register's office of the city of Baltimore,
and the same, or a copy thereof duly attested under the hand of said register and the corporate seal
of the city, shall be received as evidence in any court of law or equity.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sum or sums of money imposed and assessed upon any person
or persons in virtue of this act, shall be a lien upon and bind the property of such person or persons
which shall, by the jury aforesaid, be deemed and declared to be benefitted by the opening of
said Second-street.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every person or persons whose property the jury under the act
to which this is a supplement have delcared will sustain an injury by the opening of Second-street,
shall have respectively all the rights, remedies and means of recovery, in relation to the person or 
persons upon whom the price of such injury shall be imposed and assented in virtue of this act, and
be subjected to all the inconveniencies and obligations to which they were respectively entitled and
subjected in virtue of the act to which this is a supplement.

                                              CHAP. XXXII.
An ACT respecting the public roads in Washington county.   Lib.
   JG. No. 3. fol. 275.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Washington county
shall have power and authority to appoint three discreet persons, freeholders in said county,
commissioners to examine and review that part of the main road leading from Turner's gap, in the
South mountain, to William's Port, as laid out by the commissioners under the act of seventeen hun-
dred and ninety, * as far as the run crossing said road, between John Summer's land and Boonsburg,
as also the old road as now used from Turner's gap to the aforesaid run, and the lands between the
road laid out under the act of seventeen hundred and ninety and the old road aforesaid, and if in
the opinion of said commissioners the direction of the road can be altered in the part above recited,
to the advantage of the county, that then the said commissioners shall cause to be surveyed and laid
out the grounds between the old road and the new road, on which, in their opinion, the road may
be run with greater convenience to the public at large, and without delay execute, sign and seal,
plain plots of the same, with explicit explanations thereof, and make return of such plots to the said
court, who on receiving such plots and explanations, shall examine the same, and all the evidence
that shall or may be offered for or against said road, as returned, and upon consideration of cir-
cumstances, may reject or confirm the same as part of the public road leading from Turner's gap to
William's Port, and shall cause the same, if confirmed, to be recorded among the land records of 
Washington county, in testimony of the same being established by law, and shall direct the said
commissioners to mark and bound the said road sixty feet in widty, and direct a supervisor or super-
visors to clear and improve the same, in the same manner, and on the same term, as directed by the
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