1831.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 95.

Mode of appeal
directed.

appeal from the decision of the justice in such case, by the
party who may consider himself aggrieved — Therefore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That from and after the passage of this act, in all
controversies that may arise under said section between any
of the turnpike companies which have been incorporated in
the state of Maryland, and a person or persons who may
be charged with evading any turnpike gate, either party
shall have the right to appeal from the decision of the just-
ice of the peace to the county court of the county in which
the controversy may arise; and the said county courts shall
take cognizance ot, and determine such appeal in the same
manner that they are now authorised and required to hear
and determine appeals, where the debt or demand exceeds
twenty shillings or one hundred pounds of tobacco, by the
fourth section of the act of assembly, entitled, An act for
the speedy recovery of small debts out of court, and to re-
peal the acts of assembly therein mentioned, passed on the
twenty-ninth day of December, seventeen hundred and nine-
ty-one, chapter sixty-eight.

Authority to alter
tolls

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the president, managers,
and company of the Baltimore and Frederick town turn-
pike road; the president, managers, and company of the
Boonsborough turnpike road; and the president, managers,
and company of the Cumberland turnpike road, or any other
turnpike road company in this state, be, and they are here-
by respectively authorised and empowered to lower the rate
of tolls, in their discretion, at any or all of the gates on eith-
er or all of said roads, and to fix the rate of said tolls at any
amount less than they are now authorised to receive by their
respective charters, and to change the amount of said tolls
from time to time as in their respective judgments may
seem expedient; Provided, That said tolls shall in no case
be increased beyond the rates now allowed by law.

CHAPTER 95.

Passed Feb.16, 1833

An act for the relief of Allen Thomas, of Anne Arundel
County.

Commissioners to
open road &c.

Section 1 . Be it enacted by he General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That Charles G Worthington, Henry H. Steele,
and Richard Iglehart, of Anne Anundel county, be, and they
are hereby appointed commissioners, and we authorised
and empowered to lay out and open a road not exceeding