CHAP.
LXIV.
Not to go thro'
buildings, &c.
Passed 3d of
Jan. 1800.
 
Trustees may
keep out-pen-
sioners, &c.
 
 
 
 

Duration.
 
 
 
 
 

Preamble.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Commissioners
appointed, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Lots to be
bounded, &c.
 

How vacancies
are to be filled.
 

Commissioners
to employ a
clerk, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners shall not lay out or open the said roads
through the buildings, gardens or orchards, of any person without his or her consent.

                                         CHAP. LXV.
An ACT to enlarge the powers of the trustees of the poor in the
   several counties therein designated.     Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 313.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the trus-
tees of the poor in the several counties of this state in whcih poor-houses have been established,
and they are hereby authorised and empowered, in their discretion, to keep any number of out-
pensioners, not exceeding ten in any one county at one time, and to allow each of such pensioners an
annual pension, not exceeding thirty dollars, to be paid at such time or times as they shall direct;
provided, that no person shall be supported as out-pensioners except those whose peculiar circum-
stances may render a situation in the poor-house particularly unsiutable for them.

II. This act to continue and be in force for three years, and no longer.

                                   CHAP. LXVI.
An ACT to authorise certain commissioners to lay off a town in
   Prince-George's county, by the name of Van's-Ville.  Lib. JG.
   No. 3. fol. 313.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that Gabriel Peterson Van-Horn has
laid off a parcel of his lands in Prince-George's county for a town, and called the same by
the name of Van's-Ville, and that certain persons are disposed to purchase lots, and make considera-
ble improvements thereon; that it would greatly conduce to the prosperity and advantage of the 
said town, and secure the title of purhcasers to lots in the same, if commissioners were appointed to
survey, lay out and perpetuate the boundaries of lots throughout the said town, and invested with
powers to superintend and regulate the same.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Thomas Snowden, junior, Samuel
Lukins, Richard Walker, John Macgill and Archibald Van-Horn, or any three of them, be and
are hereby appointed commissioners, to survey, and lay out into lots, all that parcel of land hereto-
fore surveyed by the said Gabriel Peterson Van-Horn, and the same, when surveyed, to lay out into
lots, streets, lanes and alleys; and the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby required
within the space of twelve months after completing the said survey, and locating the same into lots,
streets, lanes and alleys, as aforesaid, under the penalty of one hundred dollars on each of the said
commissioners for neglecting this duty, to make, or cause to be made, a correct certificate and plot
of the said survey, and of the respective lots, streets, lanes and alleys, located thereon, describing
and arranging the said lots in numerical order, and the said streets, lanes and alleys, by their re-
spective names, and certifying the metes and bounds of each of the said lots, streets, lanes and alleys
respectively, and to return the same into the office of the clerk of the said county, to be by him
recorded among the land records of the said county, at the proper cost of the said Gabriel Peterson
Van-Horn, and to be securely kept therein; and the said certificate and plot, or an official copy
thereof, or of any part thereof, shall at all times hereafter be sufficient evidence of the said lots,
streets, lanes and alleys, and of the respective metes and bounds thereof.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners, or a major part of them, shall cause all
the lots in the said town to be substantially and fairly bounded and numbered, and from time to time
hereafter see that the said boundaries be kept up and preserved.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That on the death, removal or resignation, of any of the said commis-
sioners, the major part of the remaining commissioners shall appoint another to serve in the stead of
such commissioner so dying, removing or resigning.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners of the said town, or a major part of them, shall
have full power to employ a clerk, who shall be under oath fairly and honestly to enter into a book
to be kept for that purpose, of the said commissioners relating to said town, in which book, among
other things, shll be kept a fair plot of the said town, describing every lot by its number, and who
the taker up or purchaser was or shall be; and the said books shall always be open to the inspection
and examination of the said commissioners.
      
                                                                                                                                   VI. AND