ART. 25] PRIVATE ROADS. 739

1888, art. 25, sec. 99. 1860, art. 28, sec. 28. 1853, ch. 220, sec. 10.

103. In all cases where the county commissioners shall
adjudge that a road be opened or altered they shall at the
usual time for levying taxes levy on the assessable property
of the county a sum sufficient to open or alter said road, and
also sufficient to pay the damages awarded, if it shall have
been adjudged that the damages be paid by the county, or
such proportion of the said sums as shall have been adjudged
to be paid by the county; and it shall be the duty of the
county commissioners to open or alter the road as soon as it
can conveniently be done.

Private Roads.

Ibid. sec. 100. 1860, art. 28, sec. 29. 1834, ch. 253, sec. 1.

104. Any owner of any lands in this State has the right to
a road and way to and from his land to places" of public worship
and mills, market towns, public ferries and court houses, and
may obtain a private road or way by application to the county
commissioners.

Greenwood v. Stoner, 3 H. & J. 435. Wright v. Freeman, 5 H. & J. 467...
Owens v. Worthington, 10 G. & J. 283. Savage Manfg. Co. v. Owings, 3
Gill, 497. Pue v. Pue, 4 Md. Ch. Dec. 386. McTavish v. Carroll, 7 Md.
352. Jay v. Michael, 92 Md. 209.

Ibid. sec. 101. 1860, art. 28, sec. 30. 1834, ch. 253, sec. 1.
105i The county commissioners, on application of any per-
son for a private road shall appoint three discreet and sensi-
ble persons of the county not related to either of the parties,
who shall act as commissioners to lay out such private road,
not exceeding sixteen feet, clear of ditches, in breadth, and
shall direct the said commissioners to lay out the same, taking
into consideration the convenience of the party petitioning for
such private road, as well as the convenience and interest of
the persons through whose lands said road may be located, and
the said commissioners shall assess the damages to be paid
to the owners of the lands through which the said road may
pass.
Jay v. Michael, 92 Md. 209.

Ibid. sec. 102. 1860, art. 28, sec. 31. 1834, ch. 253, sec.1.
106. If any person through whose lands such road may pass,
or if the person applying therefor shall object to its running
in the manner returned by the commissioners, the said county
commissioners may make such order as to the course of said
road as they may think proper.
Ibid.