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Commissioners
appointed to lay
out road.
Road described.
To make out
plot.
Road made pub-
lic.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Thomas B. Owings and Wilton Burdett,
of Carroll county, and Joseph Kemp, Esqr., of Frederick
county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to
lay out and open a new road, not exceeding thirty feet in
width, beginning at the Quaker road, at or near Kemptown,
in Frederick county, and running thence on the straightest
and best ground to intersect the Buffalo road at or near
James Penn's blacksmith's shop, thence on the bed of said
road to the pine grove north of Ridgeville, thence on the
best ground to Mount Airy Depot, on the Baltimore and
Ohio Rail Road, thence on the best ground to the new Li-
berty road, at or near Thomas Barnes' dwelling house,
crossing the Roap road at or near Stephen Penn's, then on
the straightest and best ground to intersect the Gorsuch
road at or near the farm of the heirs of John Farver, de-
ceased; and that the said commissioners shall make out a
plot of that part of the road running through Frederick
county, and return the same to the clerk of said county, to
be recorded amongst the records thereof; they shall like-
wise make out a plot of that part of the road running
through Carroll county, and return the same to the clerk of
Carroll county court, to be recorded amongst the records
of said county; and the said road, when so opened, shall be
deemed to be a public road forever, and shall be kept in re-
pair in the same manner as all other public roads are di-
rected to be kept up in those counties respectively.
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Expenses: how
paid.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the expenses of surveying
and opening the said road, shall be paid in the following
manner, to wit: the expenses attending the surveying and
opening so much of the said road as shall lie and be in Fre-
derick county, shall be levied on and paid by Frederick
county; and the levy court of Frederick county is hereby
authorised and required, on receiving from the commission-
ers, on oath, a statement of the said expenses, including an
allowance of two dollars per day to the commissioners for
their services, to levy on the assessable property in said
county an amount sufficient to meet those demands; and that
the expenses of so much of the said road as shall lie and
be in Carroll county, shall be levied upon the assessable
properly of said county by the commissioners of tax there-
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