2.  BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Philip J. Ford, Walter Dyson, John Haw, William Wood and
William Dent, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners,
and they, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised and empowered
to review, lay out and open, a road, beginning on the public
road leading from Bryan-town to Piscataway, at the mouth of a
lane running betwixt Benjamin Watson's land, (now occupied by
Joshua Montgomery,) and James Middleton's land to Ignatius
Middleton's mill, as it did run until lately shut up by the said Ignatius
Middleton, thence across the said Middleton's land to Jeremiah Dyer's
land, thence through the said Dyer's land, as the road now
runneth, and up the lane betwixt Matthew Moore's and Thomas
Courtney Reeves's land, to the upper Zachia Church; Provided,
that if the said commissioners shall deem it more convenient and
advantageous to locate the said road otherwise than is herein designated,
they shall have full power and authority to vary the
courses of the same at their discretion; and also to lay out and open
a road, beginning on the public road leading from Bean-town to
Nottingham, at the mouth of a lane near Thomas C. Reeves's, and
thence running, as the road now runs, through the said Reeves's
land the upper Zachia church, where it intersects the road above
described, and thence on through Elizabeth Smith's land to Zachia
Swamp, thence across the said swamp through Ignatius Gardiner's,
John Gardiner's and Alloisia Gardiner's lands, as the road now
runneth, till it intersects the road at Caleb Thomas's gate, leading
from Bryan-town to Magruder's warehouse and ferry; and to survey,
mark and bound the said roads, not exceeding twenty feet in
width, and to make a plot of said roads when so laid out, surveyed,
marked and bounded, and return the same, under their hands and
seals, to the clerk of Charles county, to be by him recorded among
the land records of the county; and the levy court of said county,
at any meeting after the said plot shall have been recorded, are hereby
authorised and empowered to appoint an overseer or overseers
to keep said roads in repair, as other public roads are kept in repair
in said county; and the said levy court are hereby further authorised
and empowered to levy and assess upon the assessable property
of said county, at the time of laying the next county levy, a
sum of money in their opinion sufficient to pay the expense of opening
the said roads.

CHAP. 92.

Commissioners
appointed to lay
out and open a
road.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Proviso.