1809.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
XCVII.

standing; provided always, that nothing in this act contained shall in any manner defeat or affect
any right, title or claim, to the said property, or any part thereof, acquired or prosecuted by any
person or persons whatsoever before the passage of this act.

CHAP. XCVIII.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT authorising Joseph M'Ceney, late Sheriff of Anne-Arundel
County., to complete his Collection.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Joseph M'Ceney, late
sheriff of Anne-Arundel county, that from various causes therein set forth, he has not been
able to complete his collection within the time limitted, and that there is still due to him as sheriff
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 Joseph M'Ceney be and
he is hereby authorised to collect, until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eleven, all
balances due him as sheriff 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 contra-
ry notwithstanding.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the duty of the said Joseph M'Ceney, before he pro-
ceeds to execute or distrain the property of any person or persons for officers fees 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
officers fees or public dues demanded of him, her or them, with an affidavit annexed, if required,
that he hath not received 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 Joseph M'Ceney, 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. XCIX.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT to lay out and open a Road from the Little Tonoloway
Creek, in Washington County, to the Pennsylvania line.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That William Yates, Thomas C. Brent and
Henry Shryock, or a majority of them, are hereby appointed commissioners to survey and lay
off a public road from the Little Tonoloway creek, at the ford near Hancock-town, to intersect a
road leading from Bedford towards Hancock at the Pennsylvania line, between Jeremiah Stilwell's
and Samuel Grave's; provided, that the same shall not be laid out to run over the orchard, garden,
yard or meadows, of any person, without the consent of the owners thereof; and when so surveyed
and laid off, to return a plot thereof to the clerk of said county, to be there filed; provided always,
that the levy court, for sufficient cause, may reject said plot and return, and may direct said commis-
sioners to return another plot of said road, and so from time to time till a plot shall be returned
which shall be approved of and confirmed by said court.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of said county, if a plot shall be returned and
approved of as aforesaid, be and is hereby empowered, at the next court thereafter, to appoint an
overseer or overseers to clear and open said road according to said plot, and to levy such sum of mo-
ney as in the discretion of said court shall be considered reasonable, for the purpose of clearing and
opening said road as aforesaid, and the said road, when surveyed, laid out and opened, as afore-
said, shall be deemed a public road, and shall be kept in repair as other public roads in said county
are.

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