the roads so surveyed and laid out by the commissioners appointed by this act shall be taken, held and
adjudged, in all courts of law and equity, public roads and common highways, and shall as such be
recorded, made, amended and repaired, in the same manner as if the said commissioners of review
had approved and confirmed the same.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of the death, resignation, disqualification or refusal to
act of any of the commissioners aforesaid, the commissioners of rewview are hereby authorised and em-
powered to make other appointments to fill up such vacancy or vacancies, and re-appointments, if
necessary, from time to time, as often as occasion shall require, until each of the said roads shall be
surveyed, plotted, returned and recorded, as aforesaid.

VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners of review are hereby authorised and empow-
ered to allow such reasonable compensation, not exceeding two dollars per day, to the said commis-
sioners, and all others who may be employed in executing and carrying into effect the directions of
this act, except the surveyor, to whom the said commissioners may, in their discretion, allow a com-
pensation not exceeding four dollars per day.

VIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing in this act contained shall change, alter or repeal, any
part of the act, (a) entitled, An act to lay out several turnpike roads in Baltimore county, or one
other act, (b) entitled, An act to streighten and amend the several public roads in the several coun-
ties, and for other purposes therein mentioned, except the provision confirming the surveys and plots 
returned by the commissioners hereby appointed, in case the commissioners of review shall neglect to
view, examine, and confirm or correct, and alter the same, and finally ascertain and fix the location
thereof, within the time therein mentioned.

                   (a) April, 1787, ch.23.               (b) 1790, ch. 32.

IX. AND, whereas it appears from the plot of the turnpike road leading from the city of Balti-
more towards York-town, in the state of Pennsylvania, recorded in the clerk's office of Baltimore 
county, that there are two courses with calls, without expressing distances; wherefore, BE IT
ENACTED, That the commissioners of review shall, on or before the first Monday in April next, ap-
point a surveyor to survey the said road, and ascertain the distances of the courses in all cases where
no distances are expressed in the aforesaid plot, and return the said plot, when amended, to the clerk's
office of Baltimore county, to be recorded as evidence of the true location of said road.

                       CHAP. LX.
An ACT for the benefit of John Shewman, of Washington county.
   Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 309.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that a negro man named Aleck, the pro-
perty of a certain John Shewman, of Washington county, was, in the year seventeen hun-
dred and ninety-seven, committed to the gaol of Washington county, (on suspicion of having com-
mitted a rape,) that he made his escape therefrom, was retaken, and at the January term, in the
year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, was indicted for the said supposed offence, tried
and acquitted, but died within two days after his trial, in consequence of having been frostbitten
during his escape; and as it is reasonable and proper that the said John Shewman should receive some
compensation for the loss of his said slave,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of
Washington county shall be and they are hereby empowered and directed to assess and levy on the
assessable property of Washington county such sum of money, not exceeding two hundred dollars, as
the said justices in their judgment may suppose the said slave to have been worth, to be collected in 
the manner that other county charges are collected, and when collected, to cause the same to be paid
to the said John Shewman, his executors, administrators or assigns, as the case may require.

               CHAP. LXI.
An ACT for the punishment of horse-stealers, and other offenders.
   Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 309.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all and every person and persons who
shall hereafter feloniously take or steal any horse, mare, gelding, colt, jack, jenny or mule,
within this state, and all aiders, abettors and accessories, either before or after the fact of any such
                                                                                                                              takers

CHAP.
LIX.
 
 
 
How vacancies
are to be filled.
 
 
 

Allowance to
be made, &c.
 
 
 

Not to change
former acts, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A surveyor to
be appointed,
&c.
 
 

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1800.

Preamble.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Money to be
levied, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Penalty for
stealing horses,
&c.