tice of the peace; and the damages so assessed and returned shall be conclusive, and the party or par-
ties in whose favour the valuation ascertained by the said commissioners, or the damages assessed by
the said freeholders, shall be made, shall be entitled to receive the same from the said commissioners,
and the said commissioners shall pay, or secure to be paid, the amount of the said valuation or damages
to the respective parties entitled to receive the same, out of the monies to be raised and collected
from the subscriptions to the said road, within the space of six months after the ascertainment of
such valuation or damages, and before they shall proceed to affect the lands and tenements of the per-
son or persons concerned; provided, that the said road shall not go through any houses, gardens,
meadows or orchards, unnless with the consent of the owner thereof.

                                               CHAP. LV.
An ACT to make permanent and to continue the acts of assembly 
  therein mentioned.   Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 299.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That an act, entitled, An act to oblige in-
fected ships and otehr vessels coming into this province to perform quarantine, passed at Novem-
ber session, seventeen hundred and sixty-six, (a) be and the same is hereby continued to the thirtieth
day of October, eighteen hundred and five, and to the end of the next session of assembly which shall
happen thereafter; that an act of assembly, entitled, A supplementary act to thea ct, entitled, An
act ascertaining the height of fences, to prevent the evils occasioned by the multitude of horses, and 
restraining horse-rangers within this province, and to redreess the great evil accruing to this province
by the multiplicity of useless horses, mares and colts, that run in the woods, passed at November
session, seventeen hundred and sixty-nine, (b) be and the same is hereby continued to the thirtieth
day of October, eighteen hundred and five, and to the end of the next session of assembly which shall
happen thereafter; that an act of assembly, entitled, An act for amending and declaring the law in
the cases therein mentioned, passed at October session, seventeen hundred and seventy-eight, (c) be
and the same is hereby continued to the thirtieth day of October, eighteen hundred and five, and to
the end of the next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter; that an act, entitled, An act
relating to costs in criminal cases, passed at November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-one, (d)
be and the same is hereby continued to the thirtieth day of October, eighteen hundred and five, and
to the end of the next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter; that an act, entitled, An
act relating to the fines to be imposed on jurymen, witnesses and constables, passed at April session,
seventeen hundred and eighty-two, (e) be and the same is hereby enacted into a permanent law; that
an act, entitled, An act to encourage the destruction of wolves in Baltimore county, passed at Novem-
ber session, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, (f) be and the same is hereby continued to the thir-
tieth day of October, eighteen hundred and two, and to the end of the next session of assembly that
shall happen thereafter; that an act, entitled, An act to increase the fees of the examiner-general of
the western shore, and the examiner-general of the easter shore, passed at November session, seven-
teen hundred and ninety-eight, (g) be and the same is hereby continued to the thirtieth day of Octo-
ber, eighteen hundred and five, and to the end of the next session of assembly that shall happen
thereafter.

(a) November, 1766, ch. 25. (b) 1769, ch. 18. (c) October, 1778, ch. 21. (d) November, 1781, ch. 11.
(e) April, 1782, ch. 40. (f) 1797, ch. 6. (g) 1798, ch. 114.

                                                   CHAP. LVI.
An ACT to establish an academy at Easton, in Talbot county.
   Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 300.

WHEREAS the legislature, from a conviction that the establishment and promotion of literary
institutions for the liberal education of youth in different parts of this state would have be-
neficial effects, in training up and continuing a succession of able and virtuous characters for dis-
charging the various offices and duties of public and private life, were pleased, at the last session of
assembly, to grant an annual donation of eight hundred dollars for the use of an academy to be esta-
blished in Talbot county; and in order to promote the benevolent designs of the legislature, it is ne-
cessary to establish the academy, and to incorporate the trustees thereof, with sufficient powers to
apply the donation to the purposes intended, and to direct, manage and perpetuate the institution;
therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That there be erected, and hereby is
erected and established, in the town of Easton, in Talbot county, in this state, an academy for the
liberal education of youth in the vernacular and learned languages, and such sciences and branches
                                           Z z z z z                                                                                  of

CHAP.
LIV.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1800.

Several acts
continued.

Preamble.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

An academy
erected, &c.