EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER,

C H A P. CXLVI.

1809.

An ACT to lay out and open a Road in Worcester County, begin-
ning at some point on the Road that leads from Snow-Hill to
Salisbury, and running from thence until it intersects the Road
running from Mary Parker's to Salisbury.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Eben Christopher, Robert Mitchel,
Boaz Walston, Nathan Gordy and William Parker, or a majority of them, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners to lay out, survey, mark and bound, a public road in said county,
not. exceeding twenty feet wide, beginning at some point on the road that leads from Snow-Hill to
Salisbury, and running from thence until it intersects the road running from Mary Parker's to Salis-
bury, in such direction as the nature of the ground, and the convenience of the landholders over
which the same may run, will admit; provided, that the said road shall not be laid out through the
lands of any person, without his or her consent, in writing, first had and obtained, and until the
damages to be ascertained by the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, which any person
may sustain by reason of the said road running through his or her land, shall be first paid, or secured
to be paid.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby di-
rected to return a plot of said road, when surveyed, marked and laid out as aforesaid, to the clerk
of said county, to be by him recorded; which road, when laid out, cleared and made passable, shall
be deemed and taken a public road for ever thereafter, and shall be kept up and repaired as all other
public roads in said county are; provided, that nothing herein contained shall in any manner autho-
rise the said commissioners to lay out or open the said road through the buildings, gardens, orchards
or meadows, of any person or persons, without his, her or their consent.

CHAP. CXLVII.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT to pay the Civil List and other expenses of Civil Govern-
ment.

WHEREAS those who dedicate their time, abilities and labour, to the public, ought to receive
a reasonable and adequate compensation for their services;

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the following officers of civil go-
vernment, for the time being, shall be entitled to receive at the rate of the following salaries, in
current money, for the ensuing year, to wit: The treasurer of the western shore, two thousand
dollars; the treasurer of the eastern shore, four hundred and fifty dollars; the auditor, eight hun-
dred dollars; the clerk of the council, eight hundred dollars; the clerk of the senate, one hundred
and fifty dollars; the clerk of the house of delegates, three hundred dollars; the printer to the state,
twelve hundred dollars; the messenger to the council, two hundred and fifty dollars.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all monies which shall remain in the treasury,, after discharging
the journal of accounts, and all unappropriated money which may come into the treasury, be first
applied to the payment of the civil list for the ensuing year.

CHAP. CXLVIII.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

A Further Act for the relief of John Charles Francis Chirac, of the
City of Baltimore.

WHEREAS at November session of the general assembly of this state, in the year eighteen
hundred, a law was passed vesting a certain real estate therein mentioned in the said John
Charles Francis Chirac, his heirs and assigns, with a proviso in said law contained obliging the said
John Charles Francis Chirac to sell and convey the same to some person or persons, a citizen or
citizens of the United States, within the term of ten years from the date of said law, otherwise the
said law to be null and void: And whereas it hath been represented to this general assembly, that
the -said John Charles Francis Chirac hath, in his endeavours to comply with the provisions of said
law, become involved in a suit in chancery for recovery of said property, which suit may not ter-
minate before the time limitted by the said proviso, and he therefore prays an extension of said
term; which prayer is deemed reasonable, therefore,

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.