1807.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.

LXXV.
Justices to levy
money, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of the levy court for Baltimore county be and they
are hereby authorised and required, to levy on the assessable property in said county a sum of mo-
ney adequate to the laying out and making said road and fulfilling the purposes of this act.

CHAP. LXXVI.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

An ACT to quiet the possessions, and fix the lines, of the lots of
ground fronting on the west side of Philpot-street, between Will-
street and Thames-street, in the city of Baltimore,

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of the owners of lots
fronting on the west side of Philpot-street, between Will-street and Thames-street, that
houses have been erected on said lots, and many of them upwards of thirty years ago, agreeably to
what was believed and considered the true location of their lots, and established boundaries of that
part of the west side of Philpot-street which lies between Will-street and Thames-street, but upon
a recent application to the city commissioners to establish the boundaries of said Philpot-street, it
appears by the plot of the town that each of the owners of the said lots had built their houses nine
feet too far northward, so that the owner of the house erected at the corner formed by the intersec-
tion of the south side of Will-street, and west side of Will-street, had encroached nine feet upon
Will-street: And whereas it is represented that no inconvenience to the community or injury to in-
dividuals will result from a contraction of the width of Will-street, in such manner as to quiet the
possessions of the said owners of t lie said lots agreeably to the prayer of their petition; therefore,

Commissioners
to fix the lines,

&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the city commissioners of the city
of Baltimore, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, after giving
ten days notice in the several daily news-papers of the city of Baltimore, to fix and establish the
lines and boundaries of the lots of ground situated on the west side of Philpot-street, between Will-
street and Thames-street, agreeably to the present possessions of the owners of the same, giving to
each owner a lot of no greater dimensions than that which he or she is entitled to claim under the
deeds of conveyance by which he or she holds the same, and to add to, and include within, the lot of
ground situated at the corner formed by the intersection of the south side of Will-street, and west
side of Philpot-street, nine feet of the said Will-street, bounded in front by the said west line of
Philpot-street, and running thence westward by the same distance that the said corner lot runs; and
the said commissioners are hereby directed, after having fixed and established the lines and bounda-
ries of the said lots, to cause a fair and correct plot thereof to be made out under their hands and
seals, and lodge the same in the office of the register of the city of Baltimore, there to be kept as a
part of the plot of Baltimore-town.

Owners may
hold the lots,
&c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said owners shall hold and possess the said lots, the lines
and boundaries whereof shall be thus fixed and established by the city commissioners, upon the same
terms and conditions, and in the same estate and interest, in and upon which they would have held
and possessed the said lots if this act of assembly had never passed; provided, that the said pro-
ceedings and plot of the said commissioners shall be of no validity, force or effect, unless the per-
sons owning said lots, or their guardians, if minors, shall within twelve months after the return of
said plot to the register's office, sign and subscribe their names thereto, expressing their assent to
the said lots being held in the manner they are located upon the said plot,

CHAP. LXXVII.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

An ACT for the preservation of the breed of wild deer in Somerset
county.

Deer not to be
killed, &c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for any person
or persons whatsoever to shoot, or otherwise destroy, any wild deer in Somerset county, ex-
cept from the fifteenth of September to the fifteenth of December yearly, under the penalty of five
pounds for every deer so killed or, destroyed, to be recovered in the county court of the county
where the said offence shall be committed, by indictment or information, one half of which said sum
of five pounds shall be applied to the use of the county, and the other half to be received by the
person who shall make information thereof.

Persons consi-
dered its the

killer, &c.

If. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any person or persons whatsoever, in whose hands or custody
any deer flesh, or deer skin or skins, shall be found, that shall appear to have been killed at any
other time, except between the said fifteenth day of September and the fifteenth day of December