JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER,

CHAP. XLVI.

1802.

An ACT to authorise and empower the levy court of Harford coun-
ty to assess and levy annually a sum of money for the support
of John Long, and Blansh Long his wife.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803.

WHEREAS John Long and Blansh Long have, by their petition to this general assembly, set
forth, that they are now of the age of eighty years, and rendered entirely unable to support
themselves, and praying that an act may pass authorising the levy court of Harford county to levy a
sum of money for the support of your petitioners out of the poor-house; and the facts stated in said
petition appearing to be true, therefore.

Preamble,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland That the justices of Harford county levy
court shall be and they are hereby directed and empowered, at their levy court annually, so long as
they shall see cause, to assess and levy on the assessable property of said county a sum of money,
Hot exceeding thirty dollars, for the support and maintenance of each of the said petitioners out oi
the poor-house of said county, and that the same be collected annually by the collector or collectors
of Harford county, and paid to such person as the levy court of said county shall or may direct.

C H A P. XLVII.

Justices to as-
sess money,
&c.

An ACT for the relief of certain proprietors of houses on Wilk's-
street, in that part of the city of Baltimore called Fell's Point.

Passed 8th of
January, 1805.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry proprietors of
ground binding on Wilk's-street, between Bond's-street and Eden-street, in that part of the
city of Baltimore called Fell's Point, that in consequence of a late survey made by the city commis-
sioners, it appears that encroachments have been heretofore unintentionally made on the said street
by several of the proprietors of lots binding thereon within the limits aforesaid, and that a part of
many valuable buildings of brick, and other materials, stand over the line of said street, as located
and marked by the said commissioners: And whereas public convenience doth not require the re-
moval of any part of the said buildings, in as much as the street, notwithstanding the aforesaid en-
croachments, will still remain sufficiently wide for every use and purpose requisite; therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the street called Wilk's-street, in
that part of the city of Baltimore called Fell's Point, running at right angles to, and situate be-
tween, Bond and Eden-street, shall be and hereby is narrowed, bounded and established, as follows;
that is to say, a line drawn so as to touch the most southern part of the southernmost line of houses
creeled and now standing on the north side of the said street, shall be the northern boundary there-
of; and a line drawn parrallel to the above mentioned line, so as to touch the most northern part of
the northernmost line of houses erected and now standing on the south side of the said street, shall
be the southern boundary thereof; and the said street shall, in every part thereof, from Bond-street
to Eden-street as aforesaid, be of a width corresponding to the said two lines of houses.

Wilk's-street
narrowed, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the city commissioners of the city of Baltimore forthwith lay
out, mark and bound, the said, street, according to the directions and provisions of this act; and
that all houses, buildings and improvements, heretofore made or erected, or which may hereafter be
made or erected, on either side of the said street, corresponding with or forming a part of either of
the aforesaid lines of houses, shall be and hereby are established, confirmed and declared, to be law-
ful, any law, usage or judgment, to the contrary notwithstanding.

To be laid out
and bounded,
&c.

CHAP. XL VIII.

A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act to open a road from Han-
cock-town, in Washington county, by William Tang's mill, to
intersect a road leading from Cumberland, in Allegany county to
Sidling hill creek.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803.

WHEREAS the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement are found inadequate for
the purposes thereby intended; therefore,

II. BE

Preamble