JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1826

clerk of Montgomery county court, to be recorded among the
records of said county; and the said road when so opened, or so
much thereof as may be opened, shall be thereafter deemed to
be a public road forever, and shall be kept in repair in the same
manner as other public roads are directed to be kept in said
county.

CHAP. 30.

2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners be and
they are hereby required to make out, upon oath or affirmation,
an account of the expense of surveying and opening said road
through Montgomery county, including an allowance of two
dollars per day to the commissioners for their services, and the
levy court of said county are hereby authorised and required to
levy the same on the assessable property of said county.

Account of ex-
pense of opening
road to be made
out

3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall va-
lue and ascertain the damages that may be sustained by any
person or persons through whose lands said road may be made
to pass, taking into consideration the advantages and disadvan-
tages, (if any; ) and the damages so ascertained shall be levied
and assessed as other county changes in said county are, and
when collected shall be paid over to the persons thereunto en-
titled.

Damages to be
valued

4. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners before
they proceed to act, shall take an oath of affirmation before
some justice of the peace, that they will without favour, parti-
ality or prejudice, assess the damages sustain ed by the persons
through whose lands the said road may pass.

Commissioners
to take an oath

5. And be it enacted, That so much of the act to which this
is a supplement, as is inconsistent with or repugnant to the pro-
visions of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Repeal

CHAP. XXXI.
An Act to repeal all such parts of the Constitution and Form of Government
as relate to the division of Frederick County into eleven Election Dis-
trict.

Passed Jan 24, 1827

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all such parts of the constitution and form of government
as directs Frederick county to be divided into eleven election
districts, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Part of competi-
tion repealed

2. And be it enacted, That Frederick county shall be divid-
ed into twelve separate election districts; and the additional
district shall be taken and laid off from the sixth and seventh
election districts as they are now numbered.

Frederick coun-
ty to be divided

into 12 election

districts

3. And be it enacted, That William Shepherd, David Swit-
zer and David Kephart, of the sixth election district, and Moses
Shaw, Jesse Slingluff and John Hyder, of the seventh election
district, in the county aforesaid, be and they are hereby autho-
rised and appointed, or a majority of them, commissioners to lay
off and divide anew the sixth and seventh election districts into
three election districts, and to number the new election district,
formed out of the sixth and seventh Election districts; and to
make choice of a place in said new election district, so laid off,
at which the elections shall be held, having due regard to the ac-
commodation of persons attendant upon such elections; and the
said commissioners shall, on or before the first Monday of May

Commissioners
appointed for that

purpose