JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1834

be kept in repair as other public roads are by law within said
counties

CHAP. 124.

Sec 2 And be it enacted, That the commissioners here-
by appointed, or a majority of them, shall value and ascer-
tain the damages that may be sustained by any person or
persons though whose lands the aforesaid road may be
made to pass, taking info consideration the advantages and
disadvantages, if any and the damages when so ascertained
and certified to the commissioners of said counties, shall be

Damage.

levied and assessed at then fust levy, and collected as other
coun y charges are within said counties, one moiety in
each and shall be paid over by the county commissioners,
wherein such damages may be sustained to the person or
persons entitled thereto

Levy

Sec. 3 And be it enacted, That the said commissioners,
before they proceed to act, shall personally take an oath or
affirmation before some justice of the peace, that they will,
without favor, partiality, or prejudice, assess the damages
sustained by the persons through whose land the said road
may pass

Oath required

CHAPTER 124

An additional supplement to an act, entitled, an act relating
to Free Negroes and Slaves, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and thirty one, chapter three hundred and
twenty three

Passed Mar 3 1831

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall and may be lawful for any citizen of that part of
the District of Columbia, which was ceded by the State of
Maryland, to the United States, owning land in any part of

Residents on the

line of the district

this State, or any citizen of the State owning property with
in the said district, or hereafter acquiring it, to remove any
slave or slaves for life, being natives of this State or that
part of said District, and being the property of such citizen,
into this State and from this State, hack into that part of said
District, at the will and pleasure of such owner, without any

Allowed egress and

regress of their

slaves

such slave or slaves being thereby entitled to their freedom,
any law to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always,
that nothing in this act contained, shall be construed to give
power or authority to any citizen of the District of Colum-

Restriction