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CHAPTER 227.
AN ACT for the better protection of Slaveholders in the several counties
therein mentioned.
Distributed under /Public Local Law,' and will be arranged to the
several counties which are embraced by the law.
DECEMBER, 1818.— CHAPTER 88.
AN ACT to authorize the Judges of the Court of Appeals to extend the
time of their Sessions on the Eastern Shore.
Repealed by 1828, ch. 182.
CHAPTER 89.
AN ACT to regulate the manner of obtaining and altering Public Roads
in this State.
Other laws are, 1823, ch. 120 ; 1829, ch. 234, 238.
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SEC. 1. Be it enacted ', by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall and may be lawful for the several county courts in
this state, upon petition to them, by any person or persons inte-
rested in opening, straightening or shutting up, a public road in
such county, and sufficiently describing in the said petition the
road proposed to be opened, straightened or shut up, to issue a
commission to three commissioners, freeholders in such county,
and not related to any of the parties interested, nor holding
lands through which the said road is proposed to be opened,
straightened or shut up, authorizing and requiring the said com-
missioners, or any two of them, to meet on the premises, and
examine and determine whether the public convenience requires
that the said road should be opened, straightened or shut up;
and if in the judgment of the said commissioners the public
convenience does require the said road to be opened, straight-
ened or shut up, the said commissioners, or a majority of them,
shall, in case the application shall be for opening or straighten-
ing a road, proceed to locate the same, in such manner as will
in their judgment best promote the public convenience, and
they shall cause a plot of the same, and also of the old road,
where the application shall be to straighten or shut up a road,
to be made out, and shall return the same, together with a full
report of their proceedings, under their hands, to the county
court from which the commission issued, and of the reasons on
which their opinion is founded ; and if the said commissioners
shall be of opinion that the said road ought not to be opened,
or straightened, or shut up, they shall report their opinion to
the county court aforesaid, together with the reasons on which
the same is founded.
By 1823, ch. 120, authority is vested in the court to establish a public
landing, and this power is also vested in the levy courts, where they are
clothed with the power to open public roads.
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County
courts, on
petition, to
appoint
three com-
missioners
to deter*
mine
whether
road should
be opened,
&c.
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