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WORCESTER COUNTY.

New roads.

SEC. 16. And be if enacted, That the justices of the levy
court of Worcester county, be, and they are hereby autho-
rized and empowered, on application in writing, signed by the
majority of the inhabitants of any neighbourhood through
which any road so prayed for may pass, to appoint not more
than five nor less than three commissioners, who shall be
freeholders, and judicious men of said county, not related
to the party applying for such road, nor holding land through
which the said road shall be opened, and they, or a majority of
them, shall proceed to lay out the road so as aforesaid ordered
by the said levy court to be opened in the manner and width
that the levy court shall have directed, as well as the nature

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of the ground and other circumstances will admit ; Provided,
the levy court shall be satisfied that thirty days previous notice
has been given, by advertisement set up at the court-house
door in said county, also in the neighbourhood where the said
road is intended to run, describing the same.

Plot; court
to levy
cost.

Sec. 17. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
said commissioners so as aforesaid appointed by the levy court
of said county, or a majority of them, to cause a plot and certi-
ficate of said road, so opened, to be made and returned to the
levy court of said county, whereupon it shall be lawful for,
and the said levy court are hereby enjoined to levy upon the
assessable property of the said county, a sum of money such as
they may deem necessary for opening the said road, agreeably
to the plot and certificate aforesaid ; and the said road, when
so opened, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, for
ever thereafter a public road, and shall be kept in repair as
other public roads are.

Roads
leading to
navigable
water; lum-
ber-yards;
land to be
paid for;
public
landings;
plots;
appeal.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted. That on applications for any
public road granted under the provisions of this act, in Wor-
cester county, leading to navigable water, it shall be the duty
of the commissioners, when directed by the levy court, to lay
out a quantity of land for a lumber-yard, at the discretion of
the said levy court, not exceeding three acres, to be bounded
at the corners for the use of the county ; and valuation of
damages shall be made by said commissioners for said lot of
land ; and when levied and collected, shall be paid to the per-
sons entitled to receive the same ; and the levy court may, in
like manner, on petition as aforesaid for a public landing only,
direct the said quantity of land to be laid out, marked and
bounded, for a public landing or lumber-yard as aforesaid, and
damages to be ascertained, levied and paid as aforesaid ; and a
plot and certificate of all public roads and landings or lumber-
yards as aforesaid, shall be returned to the levy court, and by
them transmitted to the clerk of the county court, to be by
him recorded among the records of the county ; and all such