ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR, NOVEMBER.
CHAP. XXII.

1803.

An ACT to establish and confirm a road in Harford county therein
mentioned.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1803,

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of
Harford county, that the road heretofore opened and cteared from William Ashmpre's mill
for three or four miles towards the Pennsylvania line, near to the dwelling-house of a certain An-
drew Hewlett, has been found to be convenient and useful to the public, and that all the persons
over whose lands the said road has been laid out are satisfied therewith, and praying that the same
may be confirmed and established as a public road for the distance aforesaid; and the same being
reasonable, therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the road heretofore laid out and
opened from William Ashmore's mill towards the Pennsylvania line, near the dwelling-house of a
certain Andrew Hewlett, shall be, and is hereby dectared to be, a public highway, and shall be
kept in repair as other public roads are in said county, any thing in any act to the contrary not-
withstanding.
CHAP. XXIII.

Road declared
public, &c

A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the relief of Hugh
Furguson, of Kent county.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1803.

WHEREAS by the act to. which this is a supplement the real property therein mentioned was
vested in the said Hugh Furguson, as fully as if he had been naturalized agreeably to the
laws of the United States: And whereas it was provided by the said act, that unless the said Hugh
Furguson should, on or before the first day oF June then next following, proceed according to law
to make himself a citizen of the United States, that the said act should have no effect; to confirm his
title to the said property; And whereas it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition
of Temperance Furguson, that the said Hugh Furguson did not proceed according to law within the
time limitted by the said act to make himself a citizen of the United States, and hath since died,
leaving the said Temperance Furguson his widow, and Samuel Furguson, Mary Furguson and Mar-
garet Furguson, his children, whose several rights to the real property of the said Hugh Furguson.
may hereafter be culled in question, to their great injury; therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the title to the real property fairly
acquired by the said Hugh Furguson in his life-time, shall be and the same is hereby as amply and
fully vested in, and confirmed to, the widow and children of the said Hugh Furguson, in the same
manner, according to their several and respective rights, as if the said Hugh Furguson had been a
citizen of this state and of the United States at che time he purchased the said property, any thing
in the before recited act to the contrary notwithstanding; provided however, that, nothing in this
act contained shall in any manner defeat or affect any right, title or ctaim, to the said property, or
any part thereof, acquired or prosecuted by any person or persons previous to the passage of the act
to which this is a supplement.
CHAP. XXIV.

Title vested,
&c.

An ACT to empower the judges of the court of appeals to reinstate the
cause of Edward Norwood against Charles Ridgely and wife's lessee.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1803.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that the case depending in the court of
appeals of Edward Norwood against Charles Ridgely and wife's lessee, has not been decided
on by the court, and that by law the same could not continue longer than June term, in the year
eighteen hundred and three; and it being represented to this general assembly, by the said Edward
Norwood, that he will be greatly aggrieved in case he cannot have the benefit of his appeal, and the
decision of the said court; therefore,

Preamble,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the judges of the high court of ap- '
peals may and they are hereby authorised and empowered, on application, to reinstate and continue,
until the end of the next term, the cause of Edward Norwood against Charles Ridgely and wife's
lessee, if, in their judgment: and opinion, under all the circumstances of the case, the same would
tend to do justice between the parties.

Court may re-
instate the
cause,.. &c

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the judgment or decision of the court of appeals, in the event
of their reinstating said cause, shall have the same effect and operation as if it had been rendered
at June term, eighteen hundred and three, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Decision to
have effect; &c