ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1803.

of said street, and assessed as aforesaid, shall respectively pay the sum or sums of money so charged
and assessed to him or them within six months after the same shall be ascertained as aforesaid.

CHAP.

LXVIII.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sums of money assessed and charged to each individual be-
nefitted by extending and opening the aforesaid street, shall be a lien upon and bind all the property
so benefitted thereby, to the full amount thereof.

Sums assessed
to he a lien, &c.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the person or persons injured by opening and extending
said street shall not be paid the damages by them respectively sustained and assessed as aforesaid,
within the time limitted tor the payment thereof .as aforesaid, he, she or they, shall and may insti-
tute suits in Baltimore county court for the recovery thereof, in which it shall be sufficient to de-
ctare for money had and received, and this act, and the proceedings under the same, shall be evi-
dence to support such action or actions.

Persons injured
may sue, &c.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said street shall not be extended or opened through the pro-
perty of any individual until the damage by them sustained and assessed as aforesaid shall be paid,
or secured to be paid to their satisfaction.

Street not to be
opened, &c.

VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the obstructions which now exist shall not be removed
within twenty days after the money so charged and assessed is paid, or secured to be paid as afore-
said, the city commissioners shall and they are hereby authorised and directed to cause the same to
be removed without delay, and to charge the expence of such removal to the proprietor or proprie-
tors thereof.

CHAP. LXIX.

Obstructions
may be re-
moved, &c.

An ACT to alter and change the names of James Clerk, and Mar-
garet Russell his wife, of Prince-George's county, and of their
children.

Passed 7th of
January, 1804.

WHEREAS James Clerk, and Margaret Russell his wife, have represented to this general as.
sembly, that Miss Eleanor Anne Lee, aunt to the said Margaret, having no offspring of her
own, is desirous that the said James and Margaret, and their issue, should add her family name,
(Lee,) to their's, and that they should assume and take upon themselves the surname of Clerk Lee
hereafter, which they are willing to do ;

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
said James Clerk, and Margaret Russell Clerk, and their issue, born or hereafter to be born, to take
upon themselves, and each of them, the surname of Clerk Lee; in the stead of their present sur-
name, and also to use and bear the coat of arms and armorial bearings of the family of Lee; and
the surnames of the said James Clerk and Margaret, and of each and every of their issue, shall be
and are hereby changed and altered into the surname of Clerk Lee; and the said James, and Mar-
garet his wife, and their issue, shall at all times hereafter be called by, and hold and use, the sur-
name of Clerk Lee, and be from henceforth called by the surname of Clerk Lee.

J. Clerk, &c.
to take the
name of Clerk
Lee, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all securities, promises, contracts, assurances, deeds and lawful
acts whatsoever, heretofore made, or hereafter to be made, by or to the said James Clerk, and Mar-
garet his wife, and their issue, and each and every of them, by the surname of Clerk Lee, shall be
of the same force and effect, and equally avail, to all intents and purposes, as if the surname of
Clerk Lee had been the true and proper surname of the said James Clerk, and Margaret his wife,
and of their issue, and of each of them, from their birth, any law, statute or custom, to the con-
trary notwithstanding.

C H A P. LXX.

Securities, &c.
to have effect,
&c.

An ACT authorising a lottery to raise a sum of money for the im-
provement of the streets of the city of Annapolis, and for other
purposes.

Passed 7th of

January, 1804,

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for James
Williams, Absalom Ridgely, William Alexander, John Barber, Joseph Sands, Lewis Neth,
John Shaw, Jonathan Pinkney, Frederick Grammar, Frederick Green, John Muir and William Catch,
or a majority of them, to propose a scheme, or schemes of a lottery for raising a sum of money, not

A scheme may
be proposed,
&c.