1803.

NOVEMBER, LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
LXXVIII.

in the revolutionary war, and having received a wound in the thigh, which occasions him to halt in
that member; that he is afflicted with the palsy, which renders him incapable of maintaining himself,
and praying that a law may pass authorising the levy court of Baltimore county to levy a sum of
money on the assessable property of said county for his support; and the same appearing reasonable,
therefore.

Money to be
levied, &c

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Baltimore county
shall be and are hereby directed and empowered, at their levy courts annually, so long as they may-
see cause, to assess and levy on said county a sum of money, not exceeding thirty dollars, for the
support and maintenance of the said Patten Coleman, and that the same be collected and paid annu-
ally to the aforesaid Patten Coleman by the collector of Baltimore county, agreeable to tli€ order of
the levy court aforesaid.

CHAP. LXXIX.

Passed 7th of
January, 1804.

An ACT authorising James Summers, late sheriff and collector of
Caroline county, to complete his collections.

Preamble.

WHEREAS James Summers, late sheriff and collector of Caroline county, by his petition to
this general assembly, hath set forth, that there are still due to him sundry sums of money
and fees, which he has been unable to collect, and hath prayed that a longer time may be allowed
him to complete the collection of the same; therefore,

J. Summers
may collect, &c.

II, BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said James Summers be and
he is hereby authorised to collect all balances ctue him, as sheriff and collector of Caroline county,
for the last year of his said offices, at any before the first day of October next, in the same man- ,
ner as he might or could have ctone whilst he was in office, any law to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.

Proviso.

III. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said James Summers, before he proceeds .
to execute or distrain the property of any person for officers fees or taxes, shall, at least ten days
before such execution or distress, deliver to the person chargeable therewith, an account, written
in words at full length, of the taxes demanded of him or her, with an affidavit annexed, that he hath
not received any part thereof, nor any thing else in security or satisfaction for the same, more than
credits given, and with a similar affidavit annexed of his deputy for the district in which such person
resided; and provided also, that before the said James Summers derives any benefit, or be autho-
rised to proceed, under this act, he shall lodge his collection and sheriff's books, and also those o£
his deputies, in the cterk's office of Caroline county, to be there open to the inspection of any per-
son interested in the same.
CHAP. LXXX.

Passed 7th of
January, 1804,

An ACT farther supplementary to an ad; to streighten and amend
the public roads in Harford county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS the road leading from Baltimore to Belle- Air, in Harford county, being connected
with, and a part of, the road from Baltimore, through Belle- Air, to the Peach-bottom ferry,
in York county, and thence across the Susquehanna to Lancaster, the seat of government in Perm-
sylvania, is an important road: And whereas the said road has not been opened and cteared within
Harford county from Winter's run to Elisha Tyson's gate, and from the end of a certain widow
Wilson's lane to the Little Falls of Gunpowder, and from thence within Baltimore county to John
Paul's, and the same ought to be opened upon the best possible ground, in the nearest direction,
and with the least possible expence to the two counties; therefore,

Commissioners
to view the
road, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the three commissioners herein af-
ter appointed, to wit; Harry Dorsey Gough and Benjamin Gatch of Baltimore county, and Willi-
am Smithson, of Harford county, or a majority of them, be and are hereby authorised and em-
powered to review the said road in Harford county, from the bridge erected across Winter's run to
Elisha Tyson's gate, between his dwelling-house and barn, and also from the end of the widow Wil-
sons's lane, near the Little Falls of Gunpowder, to the said Little Falls, and thence to John Paul's
dwelling-house, in Baltimore county, and when they shall have fixed upon the best possible ground,
in the nearest possible direction, over which the said road ought in their judgment to run, between
the respective places aforesaid, they shall cause the same to be surveyed, and a plot thereof to be
made out, and returned to the cterk's office of Baltimore county and Harford county, before the meet-
ing of the next levy court of the counties respectively, to be there recorded.