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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

locate the ground for a new road along the said val-
ley of Will's Creek with the same limits and boun-
daries that are allowed for other county roads. And
the said Commissioners are hereby fully empowered
to contract and bargain with the owners of the
lands on which the new road shall be located for
the purchase and conveyance of said land to Al-
legany County for said road.

Report cost.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That said Commis-
sioners as aforesaid shall report all of their pro-
ceeding with their estimates of the probable cost of
repairing the old road, and if they should deem a
new road preferable, they shall also report to the
Commissioners of Allegany County the probable
cost of said new road.

Levy.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the Commission-
ers of Allegany County are hereby authorized, if
in their judgment deemed expedient, to levy at
their regular levy term for making levies to meet
the county expenses, such sum or sums of money
as the said Commissioners, named in the first Sec-
tion of this Act, shall report to them as being ne-
cessary, either to repair the present road or to lay
out and make a new road, provided, nevertheless,
that the Commissioners of Allegany County shall
not be authorized to levy any part of the money
deemed necessary to improve and repair the old
road or to make a new road, until said County
Commissioners shall first be made satisfied that
one-sixth part of the amount deemed necessary to

Make new
or repair old
road.

repair the old road or make a new road has been
subscribed by private individuals, the same to be
paid by said private individuals either in money,
labor or materials ; it is hereby distinctly under-
stood that all of these private subscriptions are to be
applied solely to the filling up of the present road
or to the making of a new road, and are not to be
required by the said Commissioners of Allegany
County for any future repairs of the road after the
first year.

Superinten-
dent.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the Judges of
the Orphan's Court of Allegany County are hereby
authorized and it shall be their duty annually, in
the month of April in each and every year, to ap-
point a suitable person who shall be a resident of
the northwest side of Will's Creek and shall live