EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 975

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That on and after the fifteenth day of June, 1916,
the street road or avenue know as "Berryman Avenue" situ-
ate and located in the incorporated town of Capitol Heights,
Prince George's County, according to the metes and bounds of
said avenue as described and shown upon the plat of the sub-
division: of the said town of Capitol Heights as the same is
recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of
said Prince George's County, and running from the State road
known as Central Avenue in a southerly direction to and con-
necting with the road known as Marlboro Pike, be and the
same shall hereafter be known as a county road, and be under
the supervision of the County Commissioners of said Prince
George's County, subject to the County and State laws gov-
erning such roads.

Approved April 11th, 1916.

CHAPTER 494.

AN ACT to pay Harry J. Whyte, of Worcester County, State
of Maryland, the sum of two thousand dollars damages sus-
tained by him on account of being shot and wounded whilst
acting as one of a posse comitatus upon the order of, and
whilst assisting Harding P. Tull, Sheriff of Somerset Coun-
ty, Maryland, to arrest certain alleged criminals in said
Somerset County, Maryland.

WHEREAS, On or about the twenty-ninth day of May, Anno
Domini, nineteen hundred and thirteen, Harry J. Whyte,
while them pursuing his lawful avocation upon the public road
in Somerset County, was summoned by Harding P. Tull, then
Sheriff of Somerset County, to assist him to arrest certain al-
leged violators of the liquor law of Somerset County, and
whilst so assisting said Sheriff on the said Sheriff's said de-
mand, was shot and seriously wounded without negligence
upon his own part; and

WHEREAS, The said Harding P. Tull, at the time of the
said shooting, was an officer of the State of Maryland, under-
taking to act in the due course of his employment and duty
as Sheriff; and

WHEREAS, The said Harry J. Whyte, because of the in-
juries inflicted upon him as aforesaid, sustained permanent