EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1809.

day, of which ten days notice at least shall be given to the party or parties interested; and the said
jurors, when «o met, and having each first taken an oath before some justice of the peace, that he
will, without favour, affection, partiality or prejudice, assess the damages sustained by the person
or persons at whose request such inquisition shall be taken, by reason of opening the aforesaid road
through his, her or their land, shall thereupon proceed to assess and value the damages accordingly,
taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages, if any, and such inquisition and valua-
tion shall be final and conclusive.
CHAP. CLXXIX.

CHAP.
CLXXVIII.

An ACT relating to the Act,, entitled, An Act for the relief of sundry
Insolvent Debtors, passed November Session, eighteen hundred and
five, and to the several Supplements thereto.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the county
courts of the respective counties, or the several judges thereof during the recess of the said
court, to extend to all such persons as may apply to such court for the same, all the benefits and
privileges intended to be given to the persons included in the said act, on their complying with the
provisions of the said original act and of the several supplements thereto.

CHAP. CLXXX.

Passed 7th of
Jan. 1810.

A Supplement to the Act, entitled, An Act to lay out and open a
Road from the lower end of William Barnes's Lane, to intersect the
public Road leading from John Orme's Plantation to Montgomery
Court-House at or near the Union Mills.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the road contemplated to be laid out
by the act to which this is a supplement, shall be of the width of thirty feet.

CHAP. CLXXXI.

Passed 7th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT relative to the Judges of the Court of Appeals and of the
County Courts.

WHEREAS the speedy administration of justice is highly conducive to the prosperity, and is
essentially promotive of the best interests of the good people of this state, and for the attain-
ment of this most desirable object it is requisite that all judges should be punctual and regular in the
discharge of their important official duties; to the end therefore that this general assembly may be
enabled to form a correct opinion of the conduct of the judges in this respect, and to meet the re-
sponsibility which attaches to them as the grand inquest of this state,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the clerk of the court of appeals for
the western and eastern shore respectively, and the clerks of. the several county courts, be and they
are hereby required and directed to report, annually, to the general assembly, on or before the first
Monday in December, the duration of every term or session of their several courts, and the number
of days that the judge or judges of such court shall respectively attend for the performance of his or
their official duties.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the clerk of any of the courts herein mentioned shall fail to
comply with the direction of this act in making his annual report as aforesaid to the general assem-
bly, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one 'hundred dollars, to be recoverable and applied as other
fines and forfeitures are.

IV. AND HE IT ENACTED, That as a compensation for the performance of the service required
by the provisions of this act, the clerk of each court as aforesaid shall receive five dollars, an allow-
ance lor which shall be made by the committee of claims on the journal of accounts.

CHAP. CLXXXII.

Passed 7th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT appointing George W. Jackson Trustee to convey to George
Robertson certain Lands therein mentioned.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That George W. Jackson be and he is here-
by appointed trustee, and authorised and required as such to convey to George Robertson, by a

Passed 7th of
Jan. 1810.