THOMAS SWANN, ENQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 156.

AN ACT for the repair and perservation of the
present County Road along the valley of Will's
Creek, from the Pennsylvania line to the resi-
dence of John P. Krigbaum, on the Cumberland
and Somerset Turnpike Road, or for the laying
out of a new road in the valley of said Will's
Creek and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to the Gene-
eral Assembly of Maryland that the County Road
along the valley of Will's Creek is at many sea-
sons of the year impassible on account of the
Creek overflowing its banks and inundating said
road at several places with water, and frequently
blockading the same with ice so as to impede and
stop, at those times, all travel and trade on said
road. And it is also represented to this General
Assembly that the annual levies made by the
Commissioners of Allegany County are entirely
inadequate to place said road in good traveling
condition. Now therefore to remedy the evils com-
plied of,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John Humbird, James Rey-
nolds and Joseph Dilley, be and they are hereby
appointed Commissioners with full power and au-
thority to pass over and examine said road along
the valley of Will's Creek, and ascertain, whether,
in their judgment, the present road, in said val-
ley, can be so filled up and otherwise repaired and
improved as to render traveling on horse back and
in wagons practicable, and convenient at all ordi-
nary seasons of the year, and if so to make an ap-
proximate estimate of the cost of making such re-
pairs and alterations as they, in their judgment,
may consider necessary.

Commission-
ers.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the said
Commissioners, appointed in the first Section of this
Act, shall determine that the filling up and im-
provement of the present road along Will's Creek
is impracticable and inexpedient, then, and in that
event, the said Commissioners, named in this Act,
shall have full power and authority to lay out and

Improve road.