EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.
CHAP. XXXIII.

1809.

An ACT to authorise the Levy Court of Washington County to ap-
point Commissioners to lay off the Road therein mentioned.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Washington county
be and they are hereby authorised and directed to appoint five commissioners, and. they, or a
majority of them, are hereby authorised to survey and lay off a road, not exceeding thirty feet wide,
from Boonsborough to intersect the Sharpsburgh road at the most direct and convenient point near to
the town of Sharpsburgh, and thence in a direct course from the town of Sharpsburgh to captain
Blacford's ferry, on the Patowmack river, in as straight a direction as in their judgment will best
comport with the public convenience, so as the same shall not be laid out over the orchard, garden,
yard or meadow, of any person, without the consent of the owners thereof, and when surveyed and
laid out to return a plot thereof to the clerk's office of said county, to be there filed and recorded.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of said county, when a plot of the road as afore-
said shall be returned by the commissioners aforesaid, is hereby empowered, at the next court there-
after, to appoint an overseer or overseers to clear and open said road, and to levy such sum of money
as shall be considered reasonable, for the purpose of clearing and opening said road; and the said
road, when opened and cleared, shall be deemed a public road, and shall be kept in repair in the
same manner as other public roads in said county are.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners shall be entitled to receive as a compensation
the sum of two dollars for every day they shall attend for the discharge of the duties required of
them by this act, and the said overseer or overseers shall receive the same compensation which the
overseers of public roads respectively receive, which compensation shall be levied, collected and paid,
in the same manner that other county charges are levied, collected and paid.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners, when they lay out said road, shall assess
the damages sustained by the individuals over whose lands the said road may be laid out, and to re-
turn such assessment to the levy court, to be levied, collected and paid, as other county charges are
levied, collected and paid.

CHAP. XXXIV.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT to extend Aisquith's-Street, in the Eastern Precincts of Bal-
timore:

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Daniel Conn, Harmanus Alricks, James
Sterling, George Melliman and Thomas M'Elderry, be and they are hereby appointed commis-
sioners, and they, or a majority of them, are hereby empowered to open and extend Aisquith's-street,
in the eastern precincts of Baltimore, of the width of sixty feet, and as near as maybe in a straight-
line until it intersects the old York road, on Blue Ball hill; and the said street, when so opened and
extended, shall be deemed and taken, and is hereby declared to be, a public street and highway for
ever thereafter; and the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby required to return a
plot, ascertaining the limits and extent of the said street, when so extended and opened, to the clerk
of Baltimore county, who shall receive, record and file, the same; and the said commissioners are
further authorised to grade and regulate the said street at the expense of the petitioners, or such
persons as may subscribe to the same; and the said street, when so opened and extended, shall be
kept in repair in, the same manner as other public roads in Baltimore county.

CHAP. XXXV.

Passed 6th of
Jan, 1810.

An ACT respecting Trinity Church, in the City of Baltimore;

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Joseph Allender, William Price, John
Snyder, Alexander M'Kim, Hezekiah Price, James Smyth, Thomas Boyle, William Slater and
William M'Mechen, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised to propose a scheme
of a lottery, and to sell and dispose of tickets therein, for raising a sum of money, not exceeding
fifteen thousand dollars, clear of all expenses incurred in drawing the said lottery; provided, that
the said Joseph Allender, William Price, John Snyder, Alexander M'Kim, Hezekiah Price, James
Smyth, Thomas Boyle, William Slater and William M'Mechen, or a majority of them that under-
take to act under this law, shall, before the sale or disposal of any ticket or tickets in said lottery,

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.