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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 91.

AN ACT supplemental to an act, entitled an act to

incorporate the Dulany's Valley and Towsontown

Turnpike Company, in Baltimore county, passed

January session, eighteen hundred and fifty-six,

chapter twenty-four.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Commission to

Maryland, That the President and Directors of the

mark location
turnpike road

Dulany's Valley and Towsontown Turnpike Com-

pany, shall by publishing in at least two of the news-

papers published in Baltimore county, two weeks

their intention to apply to the Circuit Court for

Baltimore county, for a commission to mark and

bound said Turnpike road, and fix the true location

thereof agreeable to the directions of this act, may

apply by petition in writing to said Court, for a com-

mission to mark and bound said Turnpike road, and

upon proof being made to the satisfaction of the

Circuit Court that such advertisements were duly

published as aforesaid, the Court shall issue a com-

mission to three discreet and disinterested persons,

empowering them or a majority of them, to mark,
bound, and locate the aforesaid road, according to

the directions of this act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said commission

Advertise
meeting.

or a majority of them shall cause to be advertised in

one or more newspapers published in Baltimore

county, the time and place of meeting at least ten

days before their meeting, and shall on the day so

advertised meet on the aforesaid Turnpike road, to

proceed in the execution of their commission agree-

able to the notice given by them as aforesai'd ; but

before any commission shall proceed in the execution

of any such commission, otherwise than by giving

notice as aforesaid, he shall take an oath or affirm-

ation before some justice of the peace that he will

locate the road mentioned in such commission, most

agreeable to the true original location thereof, accor-

ding to the evidence and circumstances which shall

nppear to him without favor or partiality, according
to his best judgment, and make a true return thereof.