1804.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF M A R Y L A N D.

CHAP.

LXXI.

deliver to the graduates, as honourable and perpetual testimonials of such admission; provided al-

ways, that no student or students within the said seminary shall ever be admitted to any such degree
or degrees, until such student or students have been first duly examined and thought worthy of the
same at a public examination of the candidates, of which one month's notice shall be given previous to
said examination, and which examination shall be held six weeks previous to the day of commence-
ment; and provided also, that no religious test or persuasion shall ever be considered as a requisite

to the obtention of such degree or degrees.

And grant cer-

tificaces, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforesaid William Du Bourg, and others, associated pro-
fessors, are hereby authorised and empowered to grant special certificates to such students as shall
go through a partial course of education in the said seminary, signed as aforesaid, provided such stu-
dents shall undergo a public examination in manner directed for the graduates aforesaid; and the
said William Du Bourg, and others, associated professors of the aforesaid seminary, shall have
power and authority to make, possess and use, one great and public seal, and one lesser and privy
seal, with such devices and inscriptions as they may think proper, and the same to alter, change,
break and renew, at pleasure, which said great public seal shall be affixed to the diplomas granted to
graduates who shall have gone through a full and regular course of education in the said seminary,
and the lesser seal to the certificates granted to those who shall have gone through a partial course
of education.

CHAP. LXXII.

Passed Janua-
ry 19, 1805.

An additional supplement to an ad to streighten and amend the pub-
lic roads in Harford county, and to repeal the third section of the
act of assembly therein mentioned.

Court to levy
money, &c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Baltimore county, at
the time of laying their next county levy, shall and they are hereby required and directed to
assess and levy upon the assessable property of Baltimore county the sum of five hundred dollars, to
be applied to the opening and clearing said road in Baltimore county leading from Belle-Air to the
city of Baltimore, agreeably to the plot returned and filed in the clerk's office in Baltimore county,
which said money shall be collected and paid over as other county levies; provided, that in case the
sum of five hundred dollars shall not be sufficient to open and clear, and put in good order, said road,
it shall and may be lawful for the levy court of Harford county to levy, or for individuals to subscribe,
a farther sum to finish and complete the same, and when such further sum shall be levied or sub-
scribed as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for any overseer appointed by Hartord county levy
court, or for any individual, under the direction of the subscribers, to open, clear and make, such part
of said road as shall not be sufficiently opened, cleared and completed, any law to the contrary not-
withstanding.

Section repeal-
ed.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the third section of the act, entitled, A further supplement to
an act to streighten and amend the public roads in Harford county, and to repeal the act of assembly
therein mentioned, be and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAP. LXXIII.

Passed Janua-
ry 19, 1805.

An ACT incorporating the justices of the levy court in the respec-
tive counties in this state for the purposes therein mentioned.

Justices incor-
porated, &c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court for the
time being of each and every county in this state, are hereby respectively declared to be one
community, corporation and body politic, for ever hereafter.

Property vested
in them, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the property of every kind belonging to any county, or ap-

propriated, or that may hereafter be appropriated, to any county use or purpose, is and the same
shall be, vested in the justices of the levy court for the time being in each and every county where
such property shall be, except in such counties where the same hath been already otherwise vested.

Suits may be
instituted, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any suit or suits may be instituted in the name oF The Justices
of the Levy Court for each and every county respectively, for the recovery of any property belong-
ing to said county, or for damages for any injury done to said property, and indictments may be
maintained for any injury or nuisance done or committed to such property, staring the same to be the
property of the justices of the levy court of such county respectively where such property may lie^