1809.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
XCI.

collector of said county, considerable sums of money, and praying that a law may pass to enable him
to collect the same; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said Zachariah Duvall be and
he is hereby authorised to collect, until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eleven, all
balances due him as collector of Anne-Arundel county for the year eighteen hundred and nine,
in the same manner as he could or might have done within the time limitted by law, any law to the
contrary notwithstanding.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the duty of the said Zachariah Duvall, before he pro-
ceeds to execute or distrain the property of any person or persons for taxes or public dues in virtue
of this act, to deliver to such person or persons, chargeable with the same, at least thirty days
previous to levying such execution or distress, an account, written in words at full length, of the
taxes demanded of him, her or them, with an affidavit annexed, if required, that he hath not re-
ceived any part thereof, nor any thing as security or satisfaction for the same, more than credit given,
to the best of his knowledge.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Zachariah Duvall, before he derives any benefit from or
under this act, shall lodge a copy of his collection books in the clerk's office of Anne-Arundel county,
to be opened for the inspection of all persons interested in the same.

CHAP. XCII.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT to widen a Road in Frederick County.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Levin Hays, John Gitzendaner, God-
fry Leatherman, Lewis Rauzahan, Jacob Staley, George Marker and Philip Baer, commissioners
appointed by an act passed at the November session, one thousand eight hundred and eight, entitled,
An act to open a road in Frederick county, be and they, or a majority of them, are hereby autho-
rised and empowered, at the expense of said county, further to lay out, open and widen, the said
road, as at present surveyed and located, so that the same shall be thirty feet in width, and the said
road, when so opened and completed, shall be recorded among the records of said county, and be
thereafter deemed and taken to be a public road, and shall be kept in repair as other roads in said
county are directed to be.
CHAP. XCIII.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT to lay out and make public a Road in Baltimore County
therein mentioned.

WHEREAS it has been represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabi-
tants of Baltimore and Harford counties, that a road from the Stave ford, on the Little Falls
of Gunpowder, to cross the Joppa road at or near Charlesborough, from thence to the end of the
World's-end hill, and from thence to Aquila Hall's mill, would be of public utility; and the prayer
being reasonable> therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Thomas Hillen, John Buck and John
M'Gaw, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority of them, are
hereby authorised and empowered, to lay out, mark and bound, a road, twenty five feet in width,
beginning at the Stave ford, on the Little Falls of Gunpowder, so as to cross the Joppa road at or
near Charlesborough, from thence to the end of the World's-end hill, and from thence to Aquila
Hall's mill, in as straight a direction as the nature of the ground will admit of, and with as little in-
jury to individuals over whose lands the same may pass as may comport with public convenience,
and provided that the said road shall not be laid through the garden, yard, orchard or meadow, of
any individual, without his or her consent, in writing, first had and obtained.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners herein named be and they, or a majority of
them, are empowered, to review that part of the Joppa road that leads from Charlesborough until
it intersects the road leading from the upper cross roads to Baltimore, and to view the ground from
the end of the World's-end hill to the aforesaid Joppa road, and if the commissioners should be of
opinion that a road from the end of the World's-end hill to intersect the Joppa road near Gittings's
orchard, would be of greater utility to the public than the old Joppa road already opened is, and
should direct the same to be opened, the persons over whose land the old road cloth pass, may be at
liberty to shut it up; and the commissioners aforesaid are directed to return a plot of said road,
when surveyed and laid out, to the clerk's office of Baltimore county court, there to be recorded;