thereof, and such condemned property, with the improvements thereon, shall revert to and become
again the property of such person as fully as the same would have been if such condemnation had
never taken place.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the third section of the act passed at November session, in the
year one thousand seven hundred and eight-one, *entitled, An act to regulate public ferries, be
and the same is hereby repealed.

VII. This act to continue and be in force during the continuance of the act to which this is an
additional supplement.
                                             Viz. to the 30th of October, 1805, &c.

                                                    CHAP. LXXXIV.
An ACT relating to certain public roads in Anne-Arundel county.
   Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 350.

WHEREAS it has been represented to this general assembly, by sundry inhabitants of Anne-
Arundel county, that they labour under great inconveniencies for want of a road from the
widow Robinson's, to lead through the lands of Thomas Chaney, Randall and Dobbin, and of Mrs.
Pumphrey, till it intersects the public road leading from Baltimore-town to the Magothey mountains,
and also for want of one other road from the said widow Robinson's, running by Waters's mill, and
through the lands of Benjamin Gambrill, till it intersects the mountain road leading to Patapsco
ferry; and this general assembly thinking the prayer therof reasonable, therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Richard Cromwell, Dorsey Jacob
and Richard Merriken, or any two of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to
survey, lay out and open, a road, not exceeding thrity feet wide, in such direction as the situation
of the ground will admit, from the widow Robinson's, leading through the lands of Thomas Chaney,
Randall and Dobbin, and Mrs. Pumphrey, till it intersects the public road leading from Baltmore-
town to the Magothy mountains, and to lay out and open a road from the said widow Robinsons,
leading by Waters's mill, and so through Benjamin Gambrill's land, till it intersects the mountain
road leading to Patapsco ferry; and the said roads, so surveyed, laid out an dopened, and the valua-
tion herein after directed to be made shall have taken place, and the expences of surveying, laying
out and opening, said roads, and the amount of valuation, shall have been paid by the parties therein
interested, shall be recorded in Anne-Arundel county land records, and shall be deemed and taken
to be public roads for ever thereafter, and kept up, amended and repaired, as all other public roads
in said county are kept in repair.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners shall ascertain and value what damages
may be sustained by any person or persons through whose lands the said roads shall pass, or his, her or
their guardians or trustee, shall conceive themselves aggrieved by such valuation and assessment of
damages by the said commissioners, it shall and may be lawful for said commissioners, or any two of
them, to issue their warrant to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon twelve good
and lawful men of the county, not interested in the premises, and qualified to serve as jurors in the 
county court, to appear on a day by them to be appointed on the premises; and the said commissi-
oners are hereby authroised to administer an oath to every person so summoned, that he will, with-
out favour, affection, prejudice or partiality, assess the damages at whose request such inquisition
shall be taken, by reason of opening the aforesaid roads through his, her or their land; and the per-
sons so summoned and sworn shall thereupon proceed to assess and value the damages accordingly,
and such inquisition shall be final and conclusive between the parties.

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

                                     CHAP. LXXXV.
An ACT to vest certain powers in the corporation of George-town,
   in Montgomery county.   Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 352.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the mayor, recorder, alderman and
common council-men of the corporation of George-town, be and they are hereby fully autho-
rised and empowered, by a by-law or by-laws for that purpose ordained, to oblige all persons licensed
                                    D d d d d d                                                                                           as

CHAP.
LXXXIII.
 

A section re-
pealed.
* Chapter 22.

Duration.
 
 
 

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1800.

Preamble.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Commissioners
appointed, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Damages to be
ascertained, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Not to go thro'
buildings, &c.
 
 
 
 

Mayor, &c.
may oblige per-
sons to pay, &c.