1843.

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 13.

be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open
and establish a public street to be called Prospect-street,
around the public grounds on the west side of Will's Creek,
in the town of Cumberland, that on the east and west
sides of the said public grounds the said street shall be

Provisoes.

fifty feet wide, and on the north and south sides not less
than forty feet wide; provided, that the street so opened
and established shall not occupy any portion of the sur-

Johnson's
street closed.

rounding lots of ground.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That, that part of Johnson
street as now laid out and located on the plat of said town,
which lies within the square formed by the opening of
Prospect-street shall be shut up, and shall be hereafter
deemed and taken as part of the said public square.

Commission-
ers to have
street survey-
ed.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said commission-
ers, or a majority of them, shall cause the said street to be
surveyed and laid out as above described and a plat there-
of to be made, and the same duly certified under their
hands and seal, shall be deposited by them in the clerk's
office of Allegany county, to be recorded, and the said plat
and certificate shall thereafter be deemed and taken in all
courts of law or equity, as a public record, and shall be
conclusive evidence of the location of said streets, and in
all questions relative to, or concerning the same; Provided,
said Prospect-street shall not be opened and established
without the approbation and consent of the commissioners
of Allegany county first had and obtained thereto, the said
approbation and consent signed by the president of the
board of commissioners, to be returned with the survey
and proceedings of the commissioners hereby appointed to
the clerks office of said county to be recorded herewith.

CHAPTER 13.

Passed Jan.
12, 1844.

Supplement to an act, entitled, "An act for the classifica-
tion of the business of the County Court of Washington
county, " passed at December session eighteen hundred
and forty-two, chapter two hundred and thirty-three.

Court to clas-
sify business.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act, the
county court of Washington county shall classify the busi-
ness of said court as follows: —The said court shall devote
the first week of each term thereof to the trial and dispo-
sal of cases on the civil, trial and appearance dockets; ta-
king the Sheriff's returns on the appearance docket—call-