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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 423.

AN ACT to repeal section twenty, article twenty-

eight, of the Code of Public General Laws, title

" county commissioners," sub-title " roads," and

to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section twenty, article twenty-eight,

Repealed and
re-enacted.

of the Code of Public Genral Laws, title "county
commissioners," sub-title "roads," be and the same

is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as

follows :

20. No public road shall be opened or altered so

Shall not be
opened.

as to pass through the buildings, gardens, yards, or
burial grounds of any person without the consent of

the owner thereof.

In force

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 424.

AN ACT to incorporate the Cumberland and Ohio

Canal Company.

WHEREAS, The United States, the States of Vir-

ginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, chartered a com-
pany to construct a navigable canal from the tide-

water of the Potomac River, in the District of Col-

Preamble

umbia, to the City of Cumberland in the State of

Maryland, and extending thence across the Allegany

Mountains to some convenient point on the navigable

waters of the Ohio River, or some of its tributary

streams, and

WHEREAS, The eastern section of the Chesapeake

Preamble.

and Ohio Canal so chartered, has been constructed