1802.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
XLIII.

streightened, to Henry Myer's mill, thence to Thomas Poteet's, thenee with a road leading to Tho-
mas Ayre's to the end of Poteet's fence, thence to the Pennsylvania line to intersect a road leading
past a certain doctor Boyd's, in as streight a direction as the nature of the ground will admit; and
the said commissioners are hereby required to return a plot thereof to the clerk's office in said coun-
ty, to be there recorded; and the levy court are hereby authorised and empowered to appoint an
overseer or overseers to open the same, and to levv a sum of money sufficient therefor; and the said
road, when so laid out, surveyed and opened, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, a
public road, and shall for ever thereafter be kept open and in repair as other public roads in said
county.

Their allow-
since.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners herein appointed shall receive the sum of two
dollars for every day they shall attend to discharge the duties required by this act, which shall be
levied and paid as other county charges.

C H A P. XLIV.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803.

An ACT to prevent hogs going at large in the town of Emmitsburgh,
in Frederick county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that the running at large of hogs in
Emmitsburgh is injurious to the inhabitants of said town; therefore,

No person to
raise hogs, &c

II. BE IT ENACTED, % the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and after the first Monday in
March next, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons whatsoever to raise or keep any hogs
within said town, except in enclosures, or to suffer any hogs to go and remain at large therein; and
if any hogs, the property of the inhabitants of Emmitsburgh, shall be found going and remaining at
large within said town, it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons to kill or impound the
same, and if impounded, such persons shall immediately give notice, by advertisements set up at the
most public places in said town, describing the hogs so impounded, and if the owner or owners shall
not, within five days thereafter, prove his or their property therein, and make compensation for the
injury, if any, which may have been sustained by any inhabitant of said town, to be ascertained by
any two disinterested persons, inhabitants as aforesaid, and shall not pay for every such hog the sum
of two shillings for every day it shall have been so impounded, it may be lawful for the person or
persons so impounding as aforesaid to sell or kill the same for his or their benefit.

General issue
pleadable.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or persons shall be sued and impleaded for killing,
destroying and selling, any such hog as aforesaid, the defendant or defendants may plead the general
issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence.

CHAP. XLV.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803,

An ACT supplementary to the act, entitled, An act appointing
commissioners to contract for and purchase the lands commonly
called the Choptank Indian Lands, in Dorchester county, and for
appropriating the same to the use of the state, and to repeal the
ad: of assembly therein mentioned.

Preamble.

WHEREAS by the said original act the agent of the state was authorised and empowered to
execute and acknowledge, in due form of law, deeds of bargain and sale to the respective
purchasers of the several lots of Indian land which should be sold by him, and the office of agent
being discontinued, it is necessary to authorise some other person to make such conveyances; there-
fore,

Chancellor to
execute certain
powers, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the chancellor of this state shall be
and he is hereby authorised and empowered to execute all and singular the powers and authorities
by the said original act delegated to, and vested in, the state's agent, relative to the making and ac-
knowledging deeds of conveyance to the purchasers of any part of the said Indian lands, and to
persons lawfully claiming under such purchasers, or any of them; and any conveyances made by the _s
said chancellor, in virtue of this act, shall be good and effectual to convey the right of the state to
the person or persons to whom the same shall be made, in as full and ample a manner as if the same
had been made ,Vy the agent erf the state in virtue of the said original act.
CHAP.