LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1843.

CHAPTER 340.

CHAP. 341.

An act for the benefit of Mary Brown.

Passed March
5, 1844.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the court of appeals of the western shore, be and
they are hereby authorized and directed to reinstate on
the docket of said court, the case of Mary Brown against
Charles F. Mayer and Samuel Barnes, the same being an
appeal from the court of chancery and dismissed by said
court of appeals on the eighteenth day of February eigh-
teen hundred and forty-two, on the ground that the record
of said case was not sent up in the time required by law,
and that said court of appeals proceed to hear and deter-
mine said case in the same manner as if the record had
been transmitted to the said court of appeals within the
time required by law.

Court to rein
state case.

CHAPTER 341.

A supplement to an act entitled, an act passed at Decem-
ber session eighteen hundred and Jive, chapter ninety-
two, incorporating the Town of Cumberland, in Alle-
gany county.

Passed Feb'y.
15, 1844.

Section. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
the Mayor and Councilmen of the town of Cumberland,
may appoint three commissioners to open, extend, widen
or streighten any street, lane or alley within the limits of
said town, upon application of each and every of the pro-
prietors of the property'|which may be intended to be taken
for such opening, extending, widening or straightening.

To appoint
three com-
missioners.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That any street, lane or
alley which may be opened, extended, widened or straight-
ened, in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing
section, shall forever thereafter, be deemed and consider-
ed to all intents and purposes a public street.

Street &c. al-
tered to be
considered
public.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of said commissioners to cause to be surveyed, marked
and bounded, said street and a plat thereof returned to
the clerks office of said county, to be recorded among the
land records of said county.

Plat to be
made and re-
corded.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the expense for open-
ing, extending, widening or straightening any street, lane

Expenses to
be paid by
proprietors.