1828

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 89.

shall pass, shall value and ascertain the damages incurred
by any person or persons through whose land the said road
shall be made, taking into consideration the advantages and
disadvantages, (if any,) and the damages so ascertained
shall be levied and assessed as other county charges are,
and when collected shall be paid to the persons thereunto
entitled.

Direction of road
in Frederick

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That the commissioners
herein named residing in Frederick county, in conjunction
with Alexander M'Ilhenny and Silas Hibbard, shall be au-
thorised to survey, lay out and open, a road of the width
herein before mentioned, on the best and most direct route,
from Alexander Warfield's mill aforesaid, to New-Wind-
sor in Frederick county, and thence in the best and most
direct route to Union town, in the same county; and the
road, when so opened and laid out, shall be perpetual, and
kept in repair by the levy court of Frederick county, as
Other public roads now are; and the said commissioners, or
a majority of them, shall make out and return a plat of said
road to the clerk of Frederick county court, who shall re-
cord the same; and the commissioners hereby authorised to
act shall receive the compensation herein before allowed,
for similar duties, to be levied and paid as before directed,
by the levy court of Frederick county; and in valuing and
condemning land for said road, and returning the costs and
expenses of the same, they shall take the oaths, or affirma-
tions, and in all respects observe the mode herein before
prescribed for the government of the commissioners autho-
rised to lay out roads by the foregoing sections of this act.

CHAP. XC.

Passed Feb 27, 1829

An Act to incorporate the Maryland Society for promot-
ing the Culture of the Vine.

Preamble

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by
the petition of William M'Donald, Henry W. Rogers, Ze-
bulon Waters, John C. S. Monkur, Philip Poultney, James
Cox, William Gibson, John B. Morris, Richard G. Belt,
Benjamin I. Cohen, George Fitzhugh, junior, Charles C.
Harper, William G. Jones, Walter Price, Robert Sinclair,
James R. Williams and Richard Caton, that they are desi-
rous of being incorporated, for the purpose of introducing
into the state of Maryland, and into our country generally,
the extensive cultivation of the vine; therefore,

Stockholders in-
corporated

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the said petitioners, together with all such
persons as are now, or may hereafter become stockholders,
be and they are hereby created one body corporate, by the
name of The Maryland Society for Promoting the Culture