1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 305,	such gate or turnpike, or practice any other fraudulent means or device, or misrepresent the distance used or travelled with the intent that the payment of every such tolls or duty may be evaded or lessened, all and every person or persons, in all, every or any of the ways or manners aforesaid offending, shall for every such offence respectively forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars, to be recovered in the manner and for the use
Power of superin-tendant relative to toll houses	provided in the act to which this is a supplement. SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall he lawful in cases where land is necessary for the erection of toll houses, or stones or other materials for the repair of the turnpike road, the supcrintcndant may agree with the owner or owners of such materials or land, not exceeding five acres in quantity, for the purchase thereof, and obtain a good and sufficient conveyance thereof to the State of Maryland for the uses and purposes afore-
In case of disa- greement	said; and in case of disagreement, and in case the owner of such land or materials should he a feme covert, under age, or non compos, or out of the state or county, the superintendant shall apply to a justice of the peace for said county, who shall appoint three freeholders of said county, who shall under oath or affir-
The procedure	mation, appraise or value such land or materials, and the damage which may be sustained by the owner or owners thereof, and return a certificate thereof to the clerk of Allegany county court, with whom the super-intendant shall deposite such appraised value to be paid to the party to whom the same may be awarded to be due, upon the order of the court or a judge thereof, been given for such payment, and upon said return and report being made as aforesaid, the title to the said lands or materials shall vest in the State of Maryland for the uses aforesaid, subject however to the payment by the State of such further sum as may in the manner hereinafter provided, be determined by the court, to be payable in the premises; and if the State or any other party interested shall be dissatisfied with the appraisement aforesaid, the State or such party may, within ten days after the return thereof aforesaid shall
File obligations	be filed, file objections generally to the said apprais-ment and pray a review thereof, whereupon the court