THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

may provide for the appraisment aforesaid by jury

CHAP. 505.

trial, and order jurors to be summoned in number and

Appraisement by

according to the rules practised in jury trials in actions

jury

in said court, and may pass such orders as to the peri-

od and conduct of such trial as to the court may s'eem

proper, and exercise the same discretion as to new

trials, after verdict or verdicts in the premises as is

exercised in actions aforesaid, and the court upon final

Filial verdict

verdict of the jury on the premises, shall confirm the

said verdict for such amount of damages as thereby

shall be found, with costs of the proceedings and reason-

able expenses to be paid by the State; and it shall be

If infant is inter-

ested

the duty of the court, where an infant shall appear by

Duty of court

the return aforesaid or otherwise, to be interested in

said land or materials, with or without objection afore-

said, and with or without an application to that effect,

to have the appraisment reviewed as aforesaid by a

jury trial in manner aforesaid, and to confirm the final

verdict as aforesaid in the premises, for such amount of

damages as it shall find, with costs and expenses afore-

said; and the said superintendent is also hereby em-

Power of to con-

powered to contract and agree with the owner or owners

tract

of any lands adjoining or near to any gate, for the

right and permission to construct or interpose any ob-

structions upon such lands as may be found necessary

to secure such gates against evasion; and said superin-

tendant is hereby authorised to pay a reasonable sum

for such privileges, or grant therefor the use of said

road, free of tolls, to the owner or occupant of such

lands.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the superintendent

Report

of said road, report regularly to the commissioners of

Allegany county, at each of their stated meetings, a

full statement of the condition of said road, the amount

of tolls received, and the amount expended on account

of said road, and what balance, if any in hand; and it

shall be the duty of the said commissioners, to trans-

mit said reports immediately to the treasurer of the

Western Shore, to be submitted by him to the legisla-

ture.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the

Repeal

original act, to which this is a supplement, as are in-