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WASHINGTON COUNTY,

	costs and charges incurred in giving notice as aforesaid, and by allowance to the examiners, to the surveyor and chain-carriers, and otherwise, shall be paid by the petitioners, each one of whom shall be answerable for the same ; and if the commis- sioners shall confirm the return of said examiners, then all of the said expenses, together with the whole amount of the damages as assessed and allowed, shall be paid by the commis- sioners aforesaid to the persons entitled to receive the same, before the road, or any part thereof, shall be opened.
Decree to be recorded	SEC. 9. And be it enacted. That whenever the said commis- sioners shall as aforesaid order and decree that any road shall be opened, straightened, or altered, and shall cause a copy of their decree, together with the plot and return, to be delivered to the clerk of the county court to be recorded, it shall be his duty to record the same among the land records of the county; and the said road, when cleared and opened, shall thereafter be a public highway, and kept in repair as other public roads are.
Allowance to exami- ners, &c.	SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the commissioners afore- said shall have power to fix and allow a reasonable compensa- tion to the examiners appointed as aforesaid, to the surveyor and chain-carriers, to be paid as aforesaid ; and that they shall have power from time to time to levy upon the assessable pro- perty of the county aforesaid, such sum or sums of money as may be a charge upon the county, under and by virtue of this act.
Repeal.	SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the act, entitled, an act to authorize and empower the levy courts of the several counties therein mentioned, to alter, open, and shut up roads in their respective counties, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, as relate to Wash- ington county, shall be and the same are hereby repealed.
Cases pending.	SEC. 12. And be it enacted. That all cases which at the time of the passage of said last mentioned act were pending in Washington county court, under the act, entitled, an act to regulate the manner of obtaining and altering public roads in this state, shall, on application of either of the parties inte- rested, be reinstated on the docket, heard and decided agree- ably to the provisions of the act of assembly last aforesaid, but the said county court shall not take cognizance of any new application to open, straighten or shut up, a public road, other- wise than upon appeal under the provisions of this act. AN ACT to authorize the Commissioners of Washington County, to levy upon the assessable property of said County, a sum or sums of money, in cases of Epidemics. — 1832, ch. 64.
Authority to levy, &c.	Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the commissioners of Washington county be, and they are