FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

CHAPTER 51.

CHAP. 52.

An act to authorize Eli Hewit, of Carroll County, to
change the location of a certain Road in said County.

Passed Feb
2, 1842.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Eli Hewit, of Carroll county, be, and he
is hereby empowered, at his own cost, to alter so much of
the public road leading from Westminster, Carroll county,
to the city of Washington, District of Columbia, as passes
through his land, and the land of the Heirs of the late Ruth
Owings, commencing for the same, at or near a stone mark-
ed with the. letter 1, said stone standing near to, and south
of the White. Marsh, and running thence south, between
the lands of Eli Hewit, and the lands of Samuel Stevenson,
and thence between the lands of the heirs of James Hood,
and the lands of the heirs of Ruth Owings, until said route
or road intersects the bed of the present road.

Authorized to
alter public
road

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Eli Hewit,
shall return to the commissioners of tax for Carroll county,
an exact plat of the alteration in said road, to be filed in
said office.

Return to be

made

CHAPTER 52.

An act to quiet titles to Real Estate, in the Town of Frost-
burg, in Allegany County, and for other purposes.

Passed Feb
2, 1842.

Whereas, it appears to this General Assembly, that sun-
dry dwelling houses, porches, porticoes and other appurte-
nances to said dwellings, stand and are situated, in whole or
in part, on the public grounds, in said town—therefore,

Preamble.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That no owner or occupant of any dwelling
louse, porch, portico or other appurtenances thereto, stand-
ing or being, in whole or in part, on the public grounds in
said town, shall be subject or liable to any suit, present-
ment, or other legal process or prosecution, because of, or
in consequence of any such house, porch, portico or other
appurtenance thereto, standing or being, in whole or in part,
on the public grounds in said town.

Property on
public ground
liable to suit

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any
owner of any dwelling house in said town, which may have
been built on a plan which renders it necessary or conve-
nient to have attached to the same, a porch, portico or other

Permit to e-
rect porches,
etc.