FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and open a pub-
lic road from the bridge aforesaid, to some point on, and to
intersect the road leading from Westminster in Carroll coun-
ty, to Washington city, commonly called the Westminster
road; and the commissioners aforesaid shall value and as-
sess all damages that the owners may sustain, through whose
property said road may pass, as they in their judgment
may determine, taking into consideration the advantages

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and disadvantages, when valuing said damages; provided, that
the commissioners aforesaid shall not proceed to locate and
open said road, without having first obtained the consent of the
owner or owners of the land, through which road may

pass.

Proviso.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the commissioners afore-
said shall make out a correct statement of the expenses in-
curred in opening said road, and return to the commission-
ers of Montgomery county, and the said commissioners of
said county are hereby authorized and required to levy on
the assessable property of said county at the time of mak-
ing the first county levy thereafter, the amount of expen-
ses incurred as aforesaid, and to pay over the same to the
order of said road commissioners; and said road shall there-
after be kept in repair as other public roads.

Levy autho-
rized

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That if either of said com-
missioners shall die or refuse to act, the remaining commis-
sioners shall appoint some other person to fill the vacancy,
and the person so appointed shall have the same powers and
authorities as" are vested in the said commissioners by this
act.

Vacancies—
how filled

CHAPTER 181.

An act to incorporate the Maryland Lyceum.

Passed March
2, 1842.

Whereas, it is represented to this General Assembly,
that a number of the inhabitants of the city of Baltimore
have formed themselves into a society, whose object is the
promotion of literature, and the encouragement of the arts
and sciences, by means of lectures, recitations and discus-
sions—therefore,

Preamble.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Richard M. Ball, A. G. Griffith, Samuel
K. Cox, Edward Winsor, W. A. Woods, Edmund J. Webb,
Luther J. Cox, Junior, Charles W. Ridgely, John Roberts,
Junior, J. T. I. Harlan, Beale H. Richardson, and all others
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Incorporated.