1801.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

C H A P. LVII.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.

An ACT declaring a certain road in Kent county a public high-

way.

Road declared
public, &c,

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all that road in Kent county leading
from Redwood Run, on the main road from Chester-town to Rock Hall, to the wharf on the
northwest fork of Langford's bay, commonly called the Ship Yard Road, shall be and is hereby
declared to be a public road, as the same now runs, and shall be kept in repair as other public
roads in Kent county,

CHAP. LVIII

Massed 31st of
.Bee. 18.0 1.

An ACT entitled, A further additional supplement to an act, en-
titled, An ad to streighten and amend the several public roads in
several counties; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

Trtarnblfj

WHEREAS by the original act to which this is a further additional supplement, certain com-
missioners, were appointed to lay out a road from the Washington county line, by Peter
Bainbridge's and Newcomer's mill, to Elizabeth-town, and the said commissioners did proceed and
lay out the said road: And whereas it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of a
number of the inhabitants of Washington county, that there was a mistake made in. the return of
the survey of the said road, and that the said road may be laid out on better ground, and that
owing to these circumstances the money that, hath beea collected for the opening the said road hath
never been applied ; therefore.

Commission-
ers appointed.

&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That George Nigh, Jacob Harry and
Henry Shrauder, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to review and lay out the said
road leading from Frederick county, by Peter Bainbridge's mill and Newcomer's mill, in Washing-
ton county, to Elizabeth-town, in said county, and are hereby vested with the same powers and
authority as the commissioners, appointed under the act to which this is a further additional supple-
ment, subject to the provisions and directions of the said act, provided the said road is continued
from the line of Washington county by Peter Bainbridge's and by Newcomer's mill ; and that the
said road when so laid put, and certificate of survey made and returned by the commissioners
aforesaid to the county court of Washington county, shall be deemed and taken to be the road in-
tended in the original act to which this is a further additional supplement, to all intents and pun-
poses whatsoever, any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding,.

Fassed 31st of

|)€C, l8ci.

C H A P. LIX.

An ACT authorising commissioners to make alterations in the
eledion districts and the places of holding elections, in the several
counties therein mentioned

FraamUit.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that several of the election districts la-
the counties of Saint-Mary's, Caecil, Washington and Allegany, have not been laid off by
the commissioners appointed under the act to regulate elections as nearly equal as possible, having
regard to the population, extent and convenience of voters, and that great inconvenience is ex-
perienced from attending places of holding elections from their not being central in said districts ;
And whereas by the assumption of jurisdiction by congress over the district of Columbia, the,
election districts of Prince-George's county have become unequal in point of population and ex-
tent; for remedy whereof,

jPersons to be
appointed, &c.-

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the persons herein after named
shall be and they are hereby appointed and authorised, or a majority of them, or. a majority of the
survivors of them, in each of the counties herein after mentioned, commissioners, to review the
election districts in their counties respectively, and to alter and change the lines and bounds of any
of the said districts, which in their judgment ought to be altered and changed, and also to alter
the places of holding the elections in such districts respectively, if necessary, carefully making
the several districts as nearly equal as possible, having regard to population, extent, and the con-
venience of the voters, and also to make choice of a place in each district at which the elections
shall be held, as nearly central as shall be practicable, having regard to the circumstances afore-
said, and the accommodation of persons attendant upon such elections, and the said commissioners
shall