1801.

NOVEMBER, LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.

XXI.

to summon and return a jury of twelve good and lawful men of the said county, not interested otf
related to the party or parties concerned, to be and appear before some one of the justices of the
said county, on the premises, at a certain day in the said warrant to be expressed, which jury, on
their oaths, or affirmation, as the case may be, to be administered by the said justice, shall in-
quire who are the owner or owners of the said land over which the said road so laid out and rati-
fied shall pass, and what damages such owner or owners will actually suffer from the passage of the
said road over the said land, the said jury taking into consideration all conveniencies and incon-
veniencies, advantages and disadvantages, if any, arising from the opening and improving the said
road, and such sheriff shall return the inquisition of the said jury, under their hands and seals,
and attested under his official signature, to the next levy court to be held for the said county, and
the amount of damages therein expressed, if any, shall be paid by order of the said court out of
the monies to be levied as is herein after directed ; provided, that, in case the said road shall run
on the bed of any old road heretofore laid out and now in use, such person or persons through
whose lands the said old road now passes, shall not be entitled to receive any compensation for
damages herein before directed to be paid ; provided also, that the said road shall not pass through
any enclosed yard, garden or orchard, without the consent of the owner, nor shall any field in
which grain, hemp, flax or tobacco, or other cultivated vegetables are growing, be laid open until
after the season for collecting and securing the crops growing on such field.

.Levy money _s
fcc.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of the said county, at the time of laying the
next levy for the said county, shall levy on the assessable property of the said county such sum
or sums of money as they may deem necessary for the purpose of surveying, opening and' clearing,
the said road, and the payments of the damages to the owners of the land through which the said
road shall pass, and also for the payment of such compensation to the commissioners as is herein
after directed to be paid.

And order
compensation^
&c,

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the commissioners aforesaid shall have discharged all the
duties required of them by this act, the levy court aforesaid shall order to be made to the said
commissioners respectively, out of the monies to be levied as is by this act directed, such reason-
able compensation as to the said court shall seem meet ; and the said commissioners respectively
shall thereafter be. discharged...

Passed 31st of
Dec, 1831,

C H A P. XXII.
An ACT to empower the levy court of Prince-George's county to
assess a sum of money for the purpose therein mentioned.

Preamble.

WHEREAS Thomas Dyer, of Prince-George's county, by his petition to this general assem-
bly, has set forth, that he is, through age and infirmities, rendered incapable of maintaining
his son Nathaniel Green Dyer, now eighteen years of age, who at twelve years of age was
attacked with a white swelling on his left arm, which has continued to affect him up to the present,
day, upwards of six years, and has rendered him entirely unable to do any kind of labour which
might contribute to his support, and prays that a law may pass for the support of his son out of
the poor-house ; and the prayer of the said petitioner appearing reasonable,

Court to levy

Money, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Prince-
George's county shall be and are hereby directed, and empowered, at their levy courts annually,
so long as they may see cause, to assess and levy, on said county a sum. of money not exceeding
fifty dollars, for the support and maintenance of the said Nathaniel Green Dyer, son of the afore-
said Thomas Dyer, and that the same be collected and paid annually to the aforesaid Thomas Byer,
by the collector or collectors of Prince-George's county, agreeable to the order of the levy court
aforesaid.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.

C H A P. XXIII.

An ACT to incorporate a company for building bridges over the
Great Falls and the Little Falls of Gunpowder, in Baltimore
county, and Winter's run, in Harford county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is considered by this general assembly, that the erecting of .good substantial
bridges over the Great Falls and the Little Falls of Gunpowder, in Baltimore county, and
Winter's run, in Harford county, where the post road leading from Baltimore to Philadelphia in-
tersects the wine, would greatly add to and essentially promote the public convenience ; therefore,

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