| 1774.
CHAP.
XXI. |
3 HENRY HARFORD, Esq;
the produce of those parts are and may be most conveniently exported,
much easier
and cheaper, whereby trade will be increased, and the settlement, cultivation
and improvement, of lands, will be encouraged and promoted; |
Bills of credit
appropriated
for loan to
certain counties,
to be
laid out in repairing
the
roads. |
II. Be it therefore
enacted,
by the right honourable the lord proprietary, by and
with the advice and consent of his governor, and the upper and lower
houses of assembly,
and the authority of the same, That part of the bills of credit
to be emitted by
virtue of the act, entitled, An act for emitting bills of credit, and applying
part
thereof, and by the same act appropriated for loan to the inhabitants of
Anne-Arundel
county as such, not exceeding two thousand dollars, shall be and are
hereby appropriated for loan to Anne-Arundel county; that part of the bills
of credit
to be emitted by virtue of the same act, and by the said act appropriated
for loan
to the inhabitants of Baltimore county as such, not exceeding ten thousand
six
hundred and sixty-six dollars and two third parts of a dollar, shall be
and are
hereby appropriated for loan to Baltimore county; and that part of the
bills of
credit to be emitted by virtue of the said act, and by the same act appropriated
for
loan to the inhabitants of Frederick county as such, not exceeding eight
thousand
dollars, shall be and are hereby appropriated for loan to Frederick county,
and
shall be laid out and expended in opening, streightening, widening, repairing,
and
putting in good order, the roads herein after mentioned, that is to say,
the road
leading from the mouth of Conococheague creek to Frederick-town, crossing
the
South mountain at the gap commonly called Turner's gap; the road from Hagar's-town
to intersect the said road at or near the western side of the South mountain;
the road from Frederick-town leading by Dowden's to George-town; a road
from
the mouth of Watts's branch to George-town aforesaid; the road from Frederick-town
leading over Rue's ford on Monocacy, and crossing Patuxent river at Green's
bridge, to Annapolis; the road from Frederick-town leading over the said
road on
Monocacy, and crossing Patapsco at or near Hood's mill to Baltimore-town;
a
road leading from the Catoctin mountain through the Pipe creek settlement
by
Royster's to Baltimore-town aforesaid; the road from Baltimore-town to
the province
line in a streight direction to York; the road from Royster's Hanover,
as far
as the province line. |
The different
districts ascertained,
and
supervisors
appointed. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the said roads above Frederick-town shall be in
one district, whereof Andrew Rench, Jacob Sharah, and George Swingle, shall
be
supervisors, and on the same roads two thousand of the said dollars before
appropriated
for loan to Frederick county, or such part thereof as may be necessary,
shall
and may be expended; that part of the said road from Frederick-town to
George-town,
lying between Frederick-town and Seneca, shall be in one district, whereof
Charles Griffith, John Beall, and Henry Fout, shall be supervisors, and
whereon
twelve hundred of the said dollars before appropriated for loan to Frederick
county,
or such part thereof as may be necessary, shall and may be expended; and
that
the residue of the same road, and also that leading from the mouth of Watts's
branch to George-town, shall be in one other district, whereof Jacob Funk,
Thomas
Johns, and Joseph West, shall and may be expended; that such parts of the
said roads leading from Frederick-town to Annapolis, and from Frederick-town
to Baltimore-town, as are or shall be in Frederick county, shall be in
one other
district, whereof Peter Hoffman, Thomas Beatty, and Henry Griffith, jun.
shall
be supervisors, and on the said parts of the same roads one thousand eight
hundred
of the said dollars before appropriated for loan to Frederick county, or
such
part thereof as may be necessary, shall and may be expended; that such
part of
the said road leading from the Catoctin mountain through the Pipe creek
settlement
to Baltimore-town, as is or shall be in Frederick county, shall be in one
district,
whereof Normand Bruce, David Shriver, and Benjamin Ogle, shall be supervisors,
and whereon one thousand of the said dollars before appropriated for
loan to Frederick county, or such part thereof as may be necessary, shall
and may
be expended; that such part of the said road leading from Frederick-town
to Baltimore-town,
as is or shall be in Anne-Arundel county, and also such part of the
said road leading from Frederick-town to Annapolis, as lies between the
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