JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1802.

nircumstances of the said James Haney are such as to render a situation in the poor-house particu-
larly unsuitable for him, to support him as an out pensioner, in addition to the number now allowed
by the act, entitled, An act to enlarge the powers of the trustees of the poor in the several counties
therein designated, and to allow the said James Haney an annual pension, not exceeding thirty dol-
lars, to be paid at such time or times as the said trustees shall direct, the amount of which said pen-
sion shall be levied in the same manner as, the other expences of the poor-house in the said county.

CHAP. XL

CHAP.
X.

An ACT to authorise the levy court of Dorchester county to permit
a certain part of the public road leading from the head of Church
creek to the town of Cambridge in the said county to be changed

Passed 3th of
January, 1803

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Thomas James Patti-
son, William Pattison, Richard Keene, Levin Jones and Thomas Woolford, of Dorchester
county, that a part of the public road leading front the head of Church creek to the town of Cam-
bridge in the said county is capable of being changed, so as to relieve the said petitioners front the
inconveniencies to which they are at present subjected by the said road's passing through their plan-
tations, and at the same time to shorten its distance; that all the proprietors of the land through
which the new road as proposed to be laid out will pass have consented thereto, except the devisees
of a certain William Daily who being minors, are incapable of giving their consent, in consequence
of which difficulty the levy court of the said county have no power to permit the said road to be
changed; that William Dail, the father of the said infants, in his life-time, consented and agreed
to contribute his proportion to the expences thereof to the proposed change of the road, and that
Mrs. Anne Bail, the mother aad guardian of the said children, is willing, on their behalf, that it
should be made, and have prayed that an act may pass, giving the levy court of the said county
adequate powers in the case; and the facts stated in the said petition appearing to be true, there
fore,

Preamble

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
levy court of Dorchester county, in their discretion, upon receiving the assent thereto of the above
mentioned guardian of the said infants, to permit the said road to be changed, in the manner direct-
ed by the now existing law, so as to pass through their lands, and to use and exercise the same dis-
cretion, powers and authorities, in the premises, as if all the proprietors of the lands to be affected
were of full age; provided that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to impose any part
of the charge incurred by opening, clearing and making, the said road, upon the minor children, or
on their mother and guardian aforesaid.

CHAP. XII.

Road may be
changed, &c.

An ACT to authorise and empower the justices of the levy court of
Caroline county to discontinue so much of the public road as is
therein mentioned

Passed 8th of
January, 1803,

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that so much of the public road leading
from Peter Steel's, near the three bridges, until it. intersects the main road leading from Peter
Harris's farm to Potter's landing, is of no possible public utility, and greatly injurious to the interest
of individuals through whose land tke said public road runs; therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of
Caroline county be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, at their first session in the year
eighteen hundred and three, upon the application, by petition, of William Summers, or any other
person or persons through whose lands the said road now runs, stating their grievances, to discon-
tinue all that part of the said public road leading from Peter Steel's, near the three bridges, until it
intersects the public road leading from Peter Harris's farm to Potter's landing; provided, that no
substantial reason to the contrary shall appear; and provided also, that before any petition for the
discontinuance of the said road shall be received by the said justices, they shall have satisfactory in-
formation that the person or persons petitioning have given at least three weeks notice in several of
the most public places in Caroline county, of his, her or their intention to petition the levy court to
discontinue the road aforesaid.

B CHAP.

Part of a road
may be discon-
tinued, &c.