ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1807.

or a majority of them, are hereby authorised and empowered to review, lay out and open, a road,
beginning on the public road leading from Bryan-town to Piscataway, at the mouth of a lane run-
ning betwixt Benjamin Watson's land, (now occupied by Joshua Montgomery, ) and James Middle--
ton's, and down the said lane as it now runneth betwixt James Montgomery and James Middleton,
and thence through James Middleton's land to Ignatius Middleton's mill, as it did run until lately
shut up by the said Ignatius Middleton, thence across the said Middleton's land t6 Jeremiah Dyer's
land, thence through the said Dyer's land, as the road now runneth, and up the lane betwixt Mat-
thew Moore's and Thomas Courtney Reeves's land, to the upper Zachia church; provided, that if
the said commissioners shall deem it more convenient and advantageous to locate the said road other-
wise than is herein designated, they shall have full power and authority to vary the courses of the
same at their discretion; and also to lay out and open a road, beginning on the public road leading
from Bean-town to Nottingham, at the mouth o( a lane near Thomas C. Reeves's, and thence run-
ning, as the road now runs, through the said Reeves's land to the upper Zachia church, where it
intersects the road above described, and thence on through Elizabeth Smith's land to Zachia swamp,
thence across the said swamp through Ignatius Gardiner's, John Gardiner's and Alloisia Gardiner's
lands, as the road now runneth, till it intersects the road at Caleb Thomas's gate, leading from
Bryan-town to Magruder's warehouse and ferry; and to survey, mark and bound the said roads,
not exceeding twenty feet in width, and to make a plot of said roads when so laid out, surveyed,
marked and bounded, and return the same, under their hands and seals, to the clerk of Charles
county, to be by him recorded among the land records of the county; and the levy court of said
county, at any meeting after the said plot shall have been recorded, are hereby authorised and em-
powered to appoint an overseer or overseers to keep said roads in repair, as other public roads are
kept in repair in said county; and the said levy court are hereby farther authorised and empowered
to levy and assess upon the assessable property of said county, at the time of laying the next county
levy, a sum of money in their opinion sufficient to pay the expense of opening the said roads.

CHAP.

XCII.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall ascertain
and value the damages which any person or persons may sustain, through whose land the said roads
may pass, by opening and clearing the same, and shall make and return to the levy court of Charles
county a certificate of such valuation, the amount of which shall be levied by said court on the as-
sessable property of said county, and paid to the person or persons entitled thereto.

Who shall as-
certain the
damages, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners shall be allowed the sum of two dollars
each per day, as a compensation for their services.

Their allow-
ance.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said roads shall not run through the house, yard, garden,
orchard or meadow, of any person or persons, without the consent of such person or persons.

CHAP. XCIII.

Not te run thro'
any house, &c.

An ACT for the relief of Samuel Thomas, James Colston, and Ben-
jamin Benney, executor of Charles W. Benney, deceased, securities
of Philemon Willis, late sheriff of Talbot county.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly of Maryland, by the petition of Samuel
Thomas, and others, securities of Philemon Willis, late sheriff of Talbot county, that from
various causes set forth in said petition, the said sheriff was unable to collect the officers fees due to
him within the time limitted by law, and that considerable sums of money still remain due to the
said sheriff, and also praying that a law may pass empowering the said securities to collect the same;
therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Samuel Thomas, James Colston,
and Benjamin Benny, executor of Charles W. Benny, securities of Philemon Willis, late sheriff of
Talbot county, or the survivors of them, be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to col-
lect, on or before the first day of December, eighteen hundred and eight, all sums of money and
balances owing to the said Philemon Willis, late sheriff of said county, for the year eighteen hun-
dred and six, as they appear stated in the books of the said Philemon Willis, in manner following,
to wit: That the aforesaid securities, or such person or persons as may be deputed by them, or the
survivors of them, for the collection aforesaid, shall, at least thirty days before execution or distress
of property for the arrearages aforesaid, deliver to the person charged, or leave at his or her last
place of abode, an account, stating the amount of fees due to the state and the officers respectively,
and the said securities, or survivors of them, or their agent, shall, if they be thereunto required,

S Thomas, &c..
may colled, &c.