ART. 28.] COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 179

PRIVATE ROADS.

29. Any owner of any lands in this State has a right to a
road and way to and from his land to places of public worship
and mills, market towns, public ferries and court houses, and
may obtain a private road or way by application to the county
commissioners.

30. The county commissioners, on application of any person
for a private road, shall appoint three discreet and sensible per-
sons of the county, not related to either of the parties, who shall
act as commissioners to Jay out such private road, not exceeding
sixteen feet clear of ditches in breadth, and shall direct the said
commissioners to lay out the same, taking into consideration the
convenience of the party petitioning for such private road, as
well as the convenience and interest of the persons through
whose lands said road may be located, and the said commis-
sioners shall assess the damages to be paid to the owners of the
lands through which the said road may pass.

31. If any person through whose lands such road may pass, or
if the person applying therefor shall object to its running in
the manner returned by the commissioners, the said county com-
missioners may make such order as to the course of said road as
they may think proper.

32. After any road shall be surveyed and laid out under the
two preceding sections, the county commissioners shall direct
the application for such road, and the return thereof, to be re-
corded.

33. After the damage assessed, and the costs of laying out such
road shall be paid by the person applying for the same, such road
shall be considered as the private way of such person, who shall
keep open and repair the same at his own expense.

34. No person shall stop, or change, or in any manner obstruct
such private road, under the penalty of ten dollars for every such
offence.

35. Where a person owns lands adjoining another county, and
desires a private road through lands in such adjoining county, he
may apply to the county commissioners of the county where the
lands lie, through which he desires to pass; and the said county