THOMAS W, VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

1835.

CHAPTER 146.

CHAP. 146.

An act to authorise the laying out and opening of a Road,

Passed Mar. 12,1836

in Cecil County, therein mentioned.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assem-

Preamble

bly by the petition of sundry inhabitants of Cecil coun-

ty, that they labour under great inconvenience for

want of a road commencing at the Pennsylvania line,

and running thence in a southerly direction near the

late residence of William Brown, crossing the road

leading from the Rising Sun to the brick meeting house,

and running through the land of the late Samuel

Brown, J. L. Maxwell, and others, to intersect the

road leading from the brick meeting house to Port

Deposit, near Brickley's cross roads:— Therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Commissioners to ascertain, and re-

Maryland, That Peter Askew, John Briscoe and Wil-

port, &c.

liam Townsend, be, and they are hereby appointed

commissioners for the purpose of ascertaining the pro-

bable cost and expence of laying out, opening and

clearing the road aforesaid, and report the same to the

commissioners of said county at their next meeting

thereafter.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That when the commis-

County commissioners may au-

sioners herein before named, shall have ascertained the

thorise it to be opened

probable cost and expense of laying out, opening, and

clearing the said road, and reported the same to the

county commissioners aforesaid who may if they deem

it expedient and advisable to open said road as afore-

said described, authorise and empower the said com-

missioners or a majority of them, to contract and

agree with any person or persons, upon the best an:l

cheapest terms they can, to lay out, open and clear

said road, and shall take the contractor or contractors,

bond or bonds, with good and sufficient security or

Contract — bond

securities, under such penalty or penalties as the said

commissioners or a majority of them may think right

and proper, for the faithful performance thereof; Pro-

Proviso

vided, that the said road shall not go through the gar-

den, yard, or meadow, of any person or persons, with-

out his, her or their, consent.