1833.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

nitt, of Baltimore county be, and they are herehy ap-

CHAP. 121

pointed commissioners or a majority of them to survey,

Direction &c. pre

lay out and open a road not exceeding thirty feet in

scribed

width, in the best and straightest direction, taking all

circumstances into consideration; to start at Devil-

bess' mill, near the old liberty road, in Frederick

county, and running by the nearest and most practi-

cable rout to the end of the road recently laid out from

Lisbon, in Anne Arundel county, past Reubin War-

field's store, on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, to

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the Piney Old Field in Baltimore county, and the

said commissioners or a majority of them shall make

Plats

out a plat of that part of the road through Fred-

erick county, and return the same to the clerk of

the conrt of Frederick county, to be recorded among

the records of said county; they shall also in like

manner make out a plat of that part of the road

through Baltimore county, and return the same to the

Record

clerk of said county court to be recorded among the

records of Baltimore county court, and the said road

when so opened, shall be thereafter deemed a public

Public road

road forever, and shall he kept in repair in the manner

as other public roads are dire'cted to be kept in said

counties.

Payment of expen-

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the expenses of sur-

ses

veying and opening that part of the road in Frederick

county, shall be paid by Frederick county, the expen-

,

ses of surveying and opening that part of the road in

Baltimore county, by Baltimore county, and the Levy

courts or commissioners of said counties as, the case

may he, are hereby authorised and required on re-

ceiving from the commissioners appointed or a major-

ity of them, an account on oath or affirmation of the

said expenses, including an allowance of two dollars

per day to the commissioners for every day they may be employed in the survey, location, and construction

Levy directed

of said road, to levy the same on the assessable pro-

perty of said counties respectively, to be collected as

other county charges are now collected.

Damages

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said commission-

ers or a majority of them shall value and ascertain the

damages that may be sustained by any person or per-