1343.

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 360.

tion as the case may be, before some of the justices of the
peace, that they will without favor, partiality or prejudice,
assess the damages sustained by the person through whose
lands the said road shall pass.

Right of ap-
peal.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That nothing contained in
this act, shall be so construed as to prevent the rights of
appeal, in like manner as though the commissioners had
been appointed in the usual way.

CHAPTER 360.

Passed March
9, 1844.

A further supplement to the act entitled an act for making
certain roads in Baltimore and Harford counties, panted
at December session eighteen hundred and fifteen, chapter
forty-eight.

Time enlar-

ged

Company to
cause sub-
scription
books to be
opened.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the time allowed in and by said act for the
making and finishing at least twenty miles of the turnpike
road, be and the same is hereby enlarged, and the futher
time of five years from the period so limited in said act,
and extended by the supplement thereto, passed December
session eighteen hundred and twenty six, chapter seventy-
four, be and is hereby given and allowed to the said com-
pany for the finishing of said twenty miles.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That from and after the
passage of this act, said company shall cause subscription
books to be opened in the town of Bel-Air, and the city of
Baltimore, for the purpose of obtaining further subscrip-
tions to the amount of twenty five thousand dollars, to be
added to the capital stock of said company, to be expended
in the continuation of said road; and that said subscription
books shall be opened in the town of Bel-Air and the city
of Baltimore, for the space of two months, and notice
thereof shall be given in the newspapers published in Har-

On failure to
obtain sub-
scription &c.
then the act
which obliges
company to
complete road
repealed.

ford county, and at least one newspaper in Baltimore city.
Sec. 3. And be it also enacted, That if said effort to obtain
sach further subscription of twenty-five thousand dollars
be not succesful, then all such parts of the act to which
this is a supplement as direct, and oblige said company to
complete said road, be and the same are hereby repealed ;
and that the said company shall be and hereby are autho-
rised to terminate said road, at the spot where it is now

Provisa.

finished and licensed, any thing to the contrary thereof, is
this or former acts notwithstanding. Provided, that the