JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1827

SEC. 4 And be it enacted, That the whole of the east wing
contemplated by this act, shall be arranged in small cells, in
which the male convicts shall be confined separately, at night,
or whenever it maybe necessary, any thing in the act of De-
cember session eighteen hundred and twenty six, chapter two
hundred and twenty nine, to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAP. 37.

Separate cells,

SEC 5. And be it enacted, That the superintending com-
mittee appointed in pursuance of the eleventh section of the
act of December session eighteen hundred and twenty six,
shall attend daily if the directors shall so order both at the
Penitentiary and at the store in the city, and shall perform the
several duties imposed on the superintending commitee, by the
directors in the year eighteen hundred and twenty six, and
each of the said committee shall be allowed out cf the profits
of the institution two dollars per day for each and every day
he shall necessarily attend, any thing in the act of December
session eighteen hundred and twenty six, chapter two hundred
and twenty nine, to the contrary notwithstanding.

Superintending
committee to at-
tend daily—coot
pensation.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That in order to enlarge the pre-
sent yard of the Penitentiary, the directors are hereby author-
ised and Empowered to contract for, and, purchase for the use
of the state, such a quantity of adjacent ground as will in their

Authority to en-
large the yard

judgement answer for that purpose, provided that the cost of
ground to be purchased shall not exceed two thousand, five
hundred dollars, and to enclose the ground so purchased with
a sufficient wall, the cost of the ground and the expense of
walling it, to be paid out of the surplus appropriation of
thirty thousand dollars, already made for the erection of an
additional building, if any, or out of the profits of the institu-
tion.

Proviso,

CHAPTER 38.

An act for re-establishing a Road and Landing at a place
commonly called the Ship Yard, in Kent county.

Passed February 2,

1828.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this General Assem-
bly,by a considerable and respectable number of the citizens of
the lower district of Kent county, that they were deprived of
a right of a way to, and landing at a place called the Ship
Yard, situated on a branch of Langfords Bay, in said county,
which they or their ancestors had more than half a century
enjoyed, by an act passed December session eighteen hun-
dred and twenty-four, chapter one hundred and forty-two;
and whereas they have suffered great inconvenience from this
deprivation. Therefore

Preamble

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the road which lies an extends from the and
of one hundred and seven and a half perches, more or less,
on the road commencing at Redwood Run, and running to
the old wharf on the North East branch of Langfords Bay,

Road made public