1802.

NOVEMBER, LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
LIII.

Commissioners
may deviate,
&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the commissioners in the said ori-
ginal act named, or any two of them, be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, if they
shall deem it expedient, to deviate from a direct line in laying out and opening said road, and to lay
out and open the same upon such suitable ground as the persons interested therein may agree upon,
any thing in the original act to which this is a supplement to the contrary notwithstanding.

And may issue
their warrant,
&c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or persons through whose land the said road shall
pass, shall think himself, herself or themselves, aggrieved in the valuation of the damages to be as-
certained by the commissioners, or any two of them, agreeably to the directions of the original act,
that the said commissioners, or any two of them, shall and they are hereby authorised and required
to issue their warrant to the sheriff of the county, to summon twelve disinterested freeholders of
said county, to appear on the premises, on a day by the said commissioners to be appointed, and the
said commissioners are hereby authorised to administer an oath to. every person so summoned, that
he will, without favour, affection, partiality or prejudice, assess the damages sustained by the per-
son or persons at whose request such inquisition shall be taken, by reason of opening said road
through his, her or their land; and the persons so summoned and sworn shall thereupon proceed to
value and assess the damages accordingly, of which the parties concerned, or some of them, shall
have five days previous notice at the least, and such inquisition shall be final and conclusive between
the parties.

Not to go thro
any house, &c

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said road shall not pass through any house, garden or orchard,
or through any field in which grain, flax or hemp, shall be growing, until the same shall be gathered
and secured, without the consent of the owner.

CHAP. LIV.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803

An additional supplement to the act, entitled. An act to erect a town
in Queen- Anne's county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of
the town of Centre-Ville, that they experience great evils and inconveniencies from the
want of sufficient powers being lodged in the commissioners of said town to make and establish
such regulations and ordinances as. are fitted to their particular circumstances, wants and exigencies;
therefore,

Commissioners
may en ad by-
laws, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the commissioners of Centre- Ville
shall have full power and authority to enact and pass all such by-laws and ordinances as are necessary
to prevent and remove nuisances; to prohibit the running of horses or driving of carts, waggons or
other carriages, unreasonably fast, within the limits of the town; to restrain or prohibit gaming;
to regulate and provide for the sweeping of chimnies, by the neglect of which the safety of the town
may be endangered; to prohibit the firing of guns or pistols within the limits of the town; to pre-
vent the storage of gunpowder, or other combustible matter or article, in such quantities or places.
within the town as may be deemed dangerous to the safety of the same; to provide for improving
and amending the streets, lanes and alleys; to make such regulations as may be useful and necessary
relative to public wells and pumps; to cause a just and fair assessment and valuation of ail the per-
sonal property within the limits or said town to be made and returned, to the commissioners annually,
and to impose and levy on the property so directed to be assessed and valued such sum or sums of
money, in just and fair proportions, according to valuations aforesaid, as the commissioners shall
deem necessary for the improvement of the said town, provided that the whole of the said sum or
sums of money, so levied as aforesaid, shall not exceed in any one year the sum of forty dollars; to
make such ordinances and regulations as shall be necessary for levying and collecting annually a tax
of fifty cents on every dog, and one hundred cents on every bitch, within the limits of said town,
and to kill any dog or bitch whose owner cannot be ascertained; to impose such fines, penaliieg
and forfeitures, for a breach of any of the by-laws or ordinances as they may think proper, not ex-
ceeding five dollars far any one offence; to pass all ordinances necessary to give effect and operation
to all the powers vested in the commissioners; provided, that the by-laws or ordinances of the said
commissioners shall be in no wise obligatory upon the persons of nonresidents of the said town,
being citizens of this state, unless In cases of intentional violation of the by-laws or ordinances pre-
viously promulgated.

Taxes, &c. how
to be recovered
&c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all taxes, fines, penalties and forfeitures, to be imposed in con-
sequence of this act, shall be recovered, collected and appropriated, in the same manner as is pre-
scribed