JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. .NOVEMBER.

1801

X. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be lawful for any notary public to do and perform such
special acts proper to be done by a notary public to which he may be required, in any other coun-
ty of this state than that for which such notary is appointed, but in all such cases, as well as in
all cases where such notaries are required to go more than three miles from their place of actual
residence, such notary shall be allowed not exceeding twenty cents per mile.

C H A P. LXXXVII.

CHAP.
LXXXVI.

They may per-
form special
acts, &c.

An ACT to authorise the justices of the levy court of Baltimore
county to lay and impose the tax therein mentioned.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of Bal-
timore county are hereby authorised and required, to levy and impose not exceeding the sum of
fifteen cents, in addition to the present sum authorised to be assessed, on every hundred pounds
worth of property in said county, and the said tax shall be paid and collected with the county tax,
and in the same manner, and the collector shall pay the amount of the said sum by him collected
to such person or persons as the levy court shall direct.

Justices to levy
money, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of the levy court of said county shall appropriate
and apply the said money, when collected, to discharge the debts heretofore contracted by the
commissioners of review of the turnpike roads of Baltimore county.

CHAP. LXXXVIII.

And apply tke
same., &c-

An ACT to authorise the judges of elections for the third district
In Caroline county to change the place of holding elections in the
said district.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the judges of the election for the
time being for the third district of Caroline county, shall have power, and they are hereby
appointed and authorised, or a majority of them, to make choice of a place in the third district of
Caroline county, at which the election for said district shall be held, as nearly central as shall be
practicable, having regard to the population, extent, and convenience of the voters of said dis-
trict, and the accommodation of persons attendant upon said election ; provided, that the place
where the election for the third district of said county has heretofore been held shall continue to
be the place of holding said election as heretofore until a fit and proper place be made choice of by
the aforesaid judges.

Judges to make
choice of a
place, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the judges aforesaid shall have made choice of a fit and
proper place for holding said election, agreeably to the directions of this act, and shall have re-
turned a certificate thereof, under their hands and seals, to the clerk of the county court, to be
recorded, the same shall be, and continue to be until removed by law, the place of holding the
elections for the third district of Caroline county,

To be the place
of holding
elecions, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk shall record said certificate in the records of the
county.

C H A P. LXXXIX.

To be record-
ed.

An ACT to straighten and amend the road leading from Leonard-
town, in Saint-Mary's county, to Newport, in Charles county.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants
of Saint-Mary's and Charles counties, that from a variety of natural and accidental causes
the road leading from Leonard-town, in Saint-Mary's county, to Newport, in Charles county, has
become very inconvenient, hazardous, and unsafe for travellers, and they have prayed that com-
missioners may be appointed to streigh-ten and amend the same; and it appearing reasonable and
proper that the said difficulties, as far as is practicable, should be removed.

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Philip Key, Luke White Barber,
Clement Briscoe, Bennet Walker and William Mills, of Saint-Mary's county, and Henry Cook-
sey, Benjamin Douglass, Walter Dyson and Samuel Emory, of Charles county, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners, to examine the road leading from Leonard-town, in Saint-Mary's
Y county,

Commission-
ers appointed
&c.