CHAP. 
LVIII.
 
Sections, &c.
repealed, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Duration.
 
 

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1800.

Preamble.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Commissioners
appointed, &c.
 
 
 
 

Commissioners
appointed, &c.
 
 
 
 
 

Plots to be re-
turned, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Roads, if not
reviewed, to be
public, &c.

Baltimore-town, in Baltimore county, into a city, and incorporate the inhabitants thereof, be and 
are hereby continued until the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and three. 

XIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and every part of the twenty-third, twenty-fourth and 
twenty-fifth sections of an act passed at November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-three, (a) 
entitled, An act respecting the punishment of criminals, and all and every part of an act passed at 
November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, (b) entitled, An act to separate the criminal 
business arising in the county and city of Baltimore, and all and eveyr part of an act passed at No- 
vember session, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, (c) entitled, An act respecting the criminal busi- 
ness of the city and county of Baltimore, be and the same is hereby declared to be repealed and made 
void from the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred. 

   (a) Chapter 57.        (b) Chapter 121.       (c) Chapter 65. 

XIV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall be in force and have continuance until the thir- 
tieth day of January, eighteen hundred and three. 

                            CHAP. LIX. 
An ACT to appoint commissioners to examine, survey and lay out, 
   the several roads therein mentioned.    Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 307. 

WHEREAS it appears, from the representation of the commissioners of review for Baltimore 
county, that the commissioners appointed by law to examine, survey and lay out, a road lead- 
ing from Rister's-town, in said county, to the Pennsylvania line, in a direction to Hanover-town, 
and likewise the commissioners appointed by law to examine, survey and lay out, a road leading from 
the city of Baltimore, in a direction towards Liberty-town, in Frederick county, to the Frederick 
line, at or near Philemon Barn's plantation, have not made such return as will enable the said com- 
missioners of review to confirm either of the aforesaid roads, and that some of the said commissioners 
have, since their appointment, departed this life, and others have moved out of the county, and they 
request that commissionres may be appointed to examine, survey, lay out and mark the same; there- 
fore, 
 
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Richard Johns, Henry Branwell and
Thomas Gorsage, or any two of them, sahll be and are hereby appointed commissioners, to examine,
survey, lay out and mark, a public road from Rister's-town aforesaid towards Hanover-town to the
line of Baltimore county, of the width of sixty-six feet, and on as streight a line as the nature of the
country will permit; and the said commissioners are to consider not only the distance, but the situa-
tion and goodness of the ground on which the said road is to pass.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Moses Brown, Beale Owings, of Richard, and James Hood, or
any two of them, shall be and are hereby appointed commissioners, to examine, survey, lay out and
mark, a public road from the city of Baltimore, in a direction towards Liberty-town, to the Frede-
rick county line at or near Philemon Barn's plantation, of the width of sixty-six feet, and on as
streight a line as the nature of the country will permit, agreeably to the calls in the original law that
directs the laying out of said road; and the said commissioners are to consider not only the distance, but
the situation and goodness of the ground on which the said road is to pass.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners appointed to examine, survey and lay out,
the roads aforesaid, after they shall lay out and mark the same, are hereby directed to return the
courses and plots thereof to the said commissioners of review, who are hereby authroised and re-
quired to view and examine the said roads, and thereafter to confirm, correct or alter, the saem;
and the said commissioners of review shall cause to be made out three fair plots and certificates of the
said roads, containing the courses thereof, and such other description thereof as they may think
necessary, and they shall sign their names to each plot and certificate, and teturn one plot and certi-
ficate to the clerk of Baltimore county, and another to the register of the city of Baltimore, to be
by them respectively recorded, and the third to be retained by the said commissioners of review;
and the said roads so laid out and confirmed, or corrected and returned as aforesaid, shall be for ever
afterwards held and adjudged in all courts of law or equity public roads and common highways.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the said commissioners of review shall not view and exa-
mine the said roads, and confirm, or correct and alter the same, so as finally to ascertain and fix the
location of the said roads within six months from the return of the courses and plots thereof, then
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