THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

1835.

heirs or assigns, entitled to said tract, be and they are

CHAP. 99.

hereby authorised and empowered to fill up and improve

their said tract of land, called Edmondson's Island or

Shad Battery, by deposites of stone and gravel or other-

wise, and to make all such erections and improvements

thereon as they may deem necessary or proper; Provi-

Restrictions

ded, such improvements and erections shall not exceed

the limits of the land acquired by said Robert Gale and

John Donahoo, in the said grant, and as discrihcd in

the patent thereof; And provided further, that in order

to prevent any such filling up as aforesaid, from being

so far extended as to impede or injure the said naviga-

tion, George Veazey, Thomas Sadler, Amos Osborne,

Commissioners

and William P. Smith, of Harford county, be and they

are hereby appointed commisioners, whose duty it shall

be to determine and cause to be laid down and marked,

Their duty

the lines and bounds to which said tract may be filled

up without injuring or impeding the navigation as afore-

said, and said filling up may take place to the extent

of the limits as fixed by said commissioners, and not

further; the determination aforesaid in the premises of

a majority of the said commissioners, all four of said

commissioners however, acting, being effectual, and in

case any of said commissioners, before the duty pre-

scribed by this act shall have been completely discharg-

ed, shall die or resign, or if any shall decline to act,

the vacancies thereby occasioned shall be filled by ap-

Vacancies

pointment by Harford county court; and said commis-

sioners shall return their proceedings in the premises,

with an affidavit of the truth and fairness thereof, thereto

annexed, and with a plat of said lines and bounds to

Flat to be returned

the office of the clerk of said court, there to be recorded

among the land records of said county, at the cost of

said Gale and Donahoo; and said commissioners shall

for their services be paid by said Gale and Donahoo,

the sum of two dollars to each of them for every days

Compensation

attendance, in performance of their said duty, and all

the expenses of surveys and other expenses that they

may occur in the premises.