ROBERT BOW IE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1803.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of Baltimore county shall, at their next levy
court after the said plot shall have been returned to the cterk's office of said county, appoint a fit
and proper person as overseer, to ctear and open said road within Baltimore county, and shall levy
upon the assessable property of said county a sum of money, not exceeding five hundred dollars, to
be collected as other county charges are collected, and to be paid to the overseer who shall be ap-
pointed as aforesaid, for the purpose of opening and ctearing said road within the limits oi7 Baltimore
county, agreeably to the plot to be returned as aforesaid.

CHAP.

LXXX.
Court to ap-
point an over-
seer, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of Harford county shall, at their levy court next
after the said plot shall have been returned to the cterk's office of Harford county, appoint a fit and
proper person as an overseer, to ctear and open said road within Harford county, and shall levy up-
on the assessable property of said county a sum of money, not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be
collected as other county charges are collected, and to be paid to the overseer to be appointed as
aforesaid, for the purpose of opening and ctearing said road within the limits of Harford county,
agreeably to the plot to be returned as aforesaid.

A person to be
appointed, &c.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said road leading from Baltimore to Belle-Air, when the same
shall have been reviewed, surveyed, and a plot thereof returned and recorded as aforesaid, and shall
have been cteared and opened as aforesaid, shall be deemed by the said levy courts respectively as
the road laid out under the provisions of this act, and the original act, and shall be kept in repair
as other public roads in the respective counties.

Road deemed
public, &c.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners appointed in virtue of this act shall be enti-
tled to receive the same compensation for each day they shall attend to the discharge of the duties
herein required, as the commissioners appointed in the said original act were entitled to receive, to
be levied, collected and paid, as other county charges are levied, collected and paid.

Allowance to
commissioners.

VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That such parts of the said original act, and the several supplements
thereto, as are inconsistent with, and regugnant to, this law, be and the same are hereby repealed.

CHAP. LXXXI.

Parts of acts
repealed.

AN ACT to alter and change the name of James Donaldson Lowry,
of the city of Baltimore, to that of James Lowry Donaldson.

Passed 7th of
January, 1804.

WHEREAS James Donaldson Lowry, of the city of Baltimore, has petitioned this general as-
sembly, that an act may pass to change his name to James Lowry Donaldson, to enable him
to inherit under the will of his uncte James Lowry Donaldson, late of the city of London; and it
appearing reasonable that the prayer of the petitioner should be granted, therefore,

Preamble

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
said James Donaldson Lowry to take upon himself the name and surname of James Lowry Donald-
son, instead of his present name, and also for the descendants of the said James Donaldson Lowry
to take upon themselves the surname of Donaldson; and the name of the said James Donaldson
Lowry shall be and is hereby changed and altered into the name of James Lowry Donaldson; and
the said James Donaldson Lowry, and the heirs of his body, shall at ail times hereafter be called by,
and hold and use, the surname of Donaldson only.

J. D. Lowry to
take the name
of J. L. Do-
naldson, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all securities, promises, contracts, assurances, deeds and law-
ful acts whatsoever, heretofore made, or hereafter to be made, by or to the said James Donaldson
Lowry, by the name and surname of James Lowry Donaldson, shall be of the same force and effect,
and equally avail, to all intents and purposes, as if the name and surname of James Lowry Donald-
son had been the true and proper name and surname of the said James Donaldson Lowry from his
birth, any law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAP. LXXXII.

&curities, &c,
to be of force,
&c

A Further additional supplement to an act, entitled, An ad for the
opening of &cond-street in the city of Baltimore.

Passed 7th of
January, 1804.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of
the city of Baltimore, that under the operation of an act, entitled, An act for the opening
of &cond-street in the city of Baltimore, and the several supplements thereto, the property of
many individuals have been taxed and made liable for a sum of money surpassing any advantage or

Preamble.