ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1804.

as advantageous to the public as at present, and will add much to the advantage of the said petiti-
oner, and praying relief in the said premises; therefore,

CHAP.
XVI.,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Montgomery
county be and they are hereby authorised to appoint commissioners, to view so much of the road
leading from the town of Rockville, in said county, to Patowmack river, as runs through the lands
of the said Nathaniel Offutt, of Edward, and if the said commissioners shall be of opinion that the
direction of the said road, or so much thereof as runs through said land, can be changed and altered
in such manner as will not be disadvantageous to the county, that then the levy court shall have
powers to direct the said commissioners to alter and change the direction of the said road, agreeable
to the prayer of the petitioner, and to cause the said road, and the alteration thereof as prayed for,
to lye surveyed; and a plain plot of such alteration, with a certificate of the courses thereof, shall
be returned and recorded among the land records of Montgomery county; and the said road, so al-
tered, shall for ever thereafter be deemed a public road, and shall be kept in repair as all other pub-
lic roads in said county are.

Court to ap-
point commis-
sioners, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said road shall not be altered or changed as aforesaid, until
the owner or owners or the land or lands over which the same shall or may pass shall have consented
thereto.

Road not to be
altered, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the expences to be incurred in the laying out and opening of
the said road, as prayed for, shall be paid by the said Nathaniel Offutt, of Edward, or such other
person or persons as may be interested in the alteration thereof.

CHAP. XVII.

N. Offutt to
pay expences,
&c.

A Supplement to an act, entitled. An act authorising the city com-
missioners to open and extend Water-street in the city of Baltimore.

Passed Janua-
ry 5, 1805.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by a number of the inhabitants of the
city of Baltimore, that an act passed at November session, eighteen hundred and three, en-
titled, An act authorising the city commissioners to open and extend Water-street in the city of
Baltimore, has been rendered inefficient, by reason of the time limitted for the sheriff to perform
certain duties therein mentioned being too short; and as it is reasonable that the said act should yet
be carried into effect, therefore.

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
sheriff of Baltimore county, and he is hereby directed and required, to perform the duties required
of him to be performed by the act to which this is a supplement at any time previous to the first day
of August, eighteen hundred and five.

CHAP. XVIII.

Sheriff to per-
form the du-
ties, &c.

An ACT authorising a lottery to raise a sum of money for improving
the navigation of Corsica creek, in Queen-Anne's county.

Passed Janua-
ry 5, 1805-

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for Joseph
H. Nicholson, Richard T. Earle, Henry Darden, William Chambers, William Carmichael,
Henry Pratt and James Clayland, junior, or a majority of them, to propose a scheme or schemes of
a lottery, to raise a sum of money, not exceeding three thousand dollars, and to sell and dispose of
the tickets thereof; provided the said Joseph H. Nicholson, Richard T. Earle, Henry Darden, Wil-
liam Chambers, William Carmichael, Henry Pratt and James Clayland, junior, or such majority of
them as shall undertake to act, before the sale or disposal of any ticket, or tickets in said lottery,
give their "bond to the state oi Maryland, in the penalty of six thousand dollars, conditioned that
they will well and truly apply so much of the money arising therefrom, within six months after
drawing said lottery shall commence, as will satisfy the fortunate adventurers for prizes drawn by
them, and after deducting the necessary expences incurred in said lottery, shall, within twelve months
from the time the drawing said lottery shall have ended, cause the said money to be laid out and ex-
pended in clearing, deepening and improving, the navigation of Corsica creek, in Queen-Anne's
county, in the best manner the sum raised will admit.

A scheme may-
be proposed
&e.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the duty of said commissioners, or such majority as
may act, before they act as such, to lodge such bond in the clerk's office of Queen-Anne's county,
B

Bond to be
lodged, &c.