1801.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
XLVII.

Charter to be
good, &c.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this charter and act of incorporation, and every part thereof,
shall be good and available in all things in the law, according to the true intent and meaning
thereof, and shall be construed, reputed and adjudged, in all cases most favourably on behalf of
the said institution, so as most effectually to answer the valuable ends intended to be answered
thereby.

CHAP. XLVIII

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.

Preamble.

An ACT authorising the laying out a certain road in Frederick
county.

WHEREAS it hath been represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Andrew
Shriver, of Frederick county, that he and a number of other inhabitants of said county
labour under many inconveniencies for want of a road to connect the road leading from Peters-
burgh, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the town of Westminster, in Frederick county,
with the road leading from Hanover, in the said commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the town of
Westminster aforesaid, and that the opening said road would be of great public utility; therefore,

Commission-
ers appointed,

&c,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Joshua Cockey, John Miller and
Nicholas Dill, be and they are hereby authorised to open and clear a road, thirty feet wide, from
the aforesaid road leading from Petersburgh, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the town
of Westminster, in the county of Frederick aforesaid, beginning at or near where said road crosses
a branch of Big Pipe creek, and near the upper end of Peter Erb'-s meadow, a,nd running in a di-
rect line to intersect the aforesaid road leading from Hanover, in the commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania, to the town of Westminster aforesaid, at the first angle on said road on the north side of
Big Pipe creek; and the said road, so opened and cleared, after the valuation herein after direct-
ed to be made, or the damages herein after directed to be assessed, shall be paid or secured to the
individuals concerned, shall be recorded among: the records of Frederick county, shall for ever
thereafter be deemed a public road, and shall be kept in repair in the same manner, as other public
roads are kept in said county.

Who shall as-
certain da-
mages, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners aforesaid: shall ascertain and value what
damages such road running through any person's land shall amount to, which shall be paid to the
person so damaged by the parties interested or wishing said road.

CHAP. XLIX.

Passed 3 ist of
Dec. 1801,

An ACT to appoint and authorise commissioners to review and lay
out the road therein mentioned, in Harford county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS by an act entitled, An additional supplement to an act, entitled, An act to
streig.ht.en and amend the public roads in Harford county, and for other purposes, certain
commissioners were appointed to lay out a public road, beginning at Belle-Air, and thence running
in the direction therein mentioned so as to intersect a public road from Thomas Underbill's mill
leading to Peach Bottom ferry, upon, the river Susqushanna, at Glasgow's store : And whereas it ,
is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of a very large number of inhabitants re-
siding between Deer creek, and Peach Bottom ferry, and others, in Harford county, that the said
road has not been laid out upon ground best calculated for the public convenience, and does not
intersect the road above mentioned from Underhill's mill leading to Peach Bottom, at Glasgow's
store, as directed by the said additional supplement, but intersects the line of Pennsylvania at a
' point about two miles distant from said store, and from which there is no intermediate public road
to connect the same to the said road from Underhill's mill; and further, that all the proprietors of
land over which the road prayed to be reviewed is now contemplated to run are willing and de-
sirous that the same should be allowed, and praying that commissioners may be by law appointed
to review the said road; and the said prayer being reasonable, and the road of great public utility, _
in as much as it is an extension of the road contemplated to be opened from the city of Baltimore ;
to Belle-Air, therefore.

Commission-
ers appointed,

&c.

II... BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Parker Hall Lee, Gilbert Jones
James Steel, William Prigg and William Wilson, of William, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners of review, to review the road directed to be laid out by the act, entitled, An ad-
ditional supplement to an act, entitled, An act to streighten and amend the public roads in Har-
ford county, and for other purposes, beginning at a place known by the name of the Hickory Ta-
vern.