1842

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 249.

commissioners for Montgomery county are hereby authori-
zed and empowered if in their opinion it be expedient and
promotive of the public convenience to appoint three com-
missioners; the Levy Court of Frederick county to appoint
one, and the commissioners for Montgomery county the
other two, to have, or cause to have surveyed and opened,
a road commencing at the Georgetown and Frederick road,
in Frederick county, opposite to or near William McClan's
dwelling-house, and running from thence the most conveni-
ent and advantageous route to intersect the public road
leading from Damascus to Clarksburg, in Montgomery
county, at or near Archibald Browning's Spring;

Expense of
surveying to
be levied.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the expense of sur-
veying and opening the said road, shall be paid by the
aforesaid counties according to the expense incurred in
each county, and the Levy Court of Frederick, and com-
missioners for Montgomery county, are hereby authorized
to levy on the assessable property of said counties the sum
necessary to defray the expense of surveying and opening
said road in each county, to be collected as other county
charges are, and the said road when so opened shall be
kept in repair as other public roads are.

Road commis-
sioners to as-
certain dama-
ges.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the road commission-
ers, or a majority of them shall value and ascertain the da-
mages that may be sustained by any person or persons
through whose land the said road may pass, taking into
consideration the advantages and disadvantages, if any, and
the said damages to be levied, assessed, collected and paid
over, by the proper authorities of said counties to those
who may be entitled to the same.

CHAPTER 249.

Passed March
8, 1843.

A supplement to an act entitled, An act to authorize the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore to license Wood-Huck-
sters, in the City of Baltimore, passed December session
eighteen hundred and forty, chapter one hundred and
ninety.

Judges to give
it in charge to
grand jury.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Judges of Baltimore City Court shall at each term
of said court give in charge to the Grand Jury of Baltimore
City Court, the act to which this is a supplement, and fur-
ther, it shall be the duty of the Mayor of the City of Bal-
timore, to have a list of the names of such person or persons