PUBLIC ROADS.

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account of the same before the justices of the next succeeding

levy court.

SEC. 21 . Suspends the operation of this act as to Allegany county, to 1796.

SEC. 22. This act to commence on the first Monday of March

Commence*

next, and continue in force three years, and until the end of the

ment, &c.

next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter ; and

from and after the first Monday of August next, the act, enti-

tled, an act for marking of highways, and making the heads of

rivers, creeks, branches and swamps, passable, passed at Sep-

tember session, seventeen hundred and four,* and the several

* Ch. 21.

supplements thereto, and also an act, entitled, an act for repair-

ing public roads in this province,! shall cease and be void, so

1753, ch.

far as they relate to the counties within this act mentioned ; and

16.

the act to empower the justices of Cecil county to straighten

and amend the public roads in said county, and to levy the ex-

penses attending the same on the assessable property of said

county, passed November session, seventeen hundred and

ninety-one, except so far as relates to the roads already laid

Ch.66.

out by the commissioners of said county, shall cease to be in

force, and are hereby repealed ; Provided always, that no new

road already laid out by the justices of the levy court of Cecil

county, shall be opened through any buildings, enclosed yard,

garden or orchard, against the consent of the owner or owners

thereof.

SEC. 23. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act con-

Not to alter

tained, shall extend to alter, or in any manner be construed to

former
laws, &c.

alter, change or repeal, an act,* entitled, an act for laying out

1787, ch.

sundry turnpike roads in Baltimore county, and the supplemen-

23.

tary acts thereto, and so much of an act,f entitled, an act to

1790, ch.

straighten and amend the several public roads in several coun-

32.

ties, as relates to Baltimore county, or any part thereof, or to

destroy, divert or withdraw, the funds, or any part thereof, ap-

propriated by law to the purposes in the said acts mentioned

and expressed, or in any manner to alter the roads therein men-

tioned to be straightened or laid out.

SEC. 24. And be it enacted. That all moneys arising on the

How cer-

assessable property in the town of Frederick, and its addition,

tain moneys
are to he

in Fredeiick county, in virtue of this act, shall be disposed oi

* disposed of.

as follow: One-third thereof to the public roads of the county,

the other two-thirds to be applied to the repairs of the streets

and alleys of said town, agreeably to an act,* entitled, an act to

*1786,ch.

repair and amend the streets and alleys in Fredericktown, and

36.

for other purposes therein mentioned.

SEC. 25. And be it enacted. That an act, entitled, an act to

An act

repair the public roads in Queen Anne's county, passed Novem-

repealed.

ber session, seventeen hundred and ninety-three,* shall be, and

*Ch.65.

hereby is repealed.