ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1807.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
chancellor, on the petition, in writing, of any person or persons interested in the sale of the pro-
perty of the said Levin Woolford, to proceed to decree in the same manner as the chancellor is au-
thorised to decree in those cases provided for by the fourth section of the law, passed at November
session, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, entitled, An act for enlarging the powers of the nigh
court of chancery.

CHAP. CVI.

CHAP.
CV.

Chancellor may
decree, &c.

An ACT to lay out and open a road from Bond-street, on Fell's
Point, to intersect the York turnpike road.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants
of Fell's Point, and its vicinity, in the city of Baltimore, that they labour under great in-
convenience from the want of a direct communication with the county in a north-western direction
from that part of the city of Baltimore called Fell's Point; and it being prayed that a law may pass
to lay out a road from the northern end of Bond-street, on Fell's Point, to intersect the York-road
below where the Fall's turnpike road intersects it, (at or near the stone bridge near Josiah Penning-
ton's mill; ) and the prayer of the said petition appearing reasonable, therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That James Biays, John Snyder, John
Lee, William Jackson, William Trimble, John Coulter, Joseph Biays, Thomas Tenant, John Ogston,
Thomas Cole, Joseph Allender and James Ramsay, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby
appointed commissioners to lay out and open a road of the width of sixty feet, extending from the
northern extremity of Bond-street, on Fell's Point, to intersect the York turnpike road between.
Doctor Henry Stevenson's and the stone bridge above Pennington's mill; and the said road, when
opened and made, shall be deemed and considered a public highway for ever, and as such shall be
kept in repair in the same manner that other public roads in Baltimore county are.

Commissioners
appointed, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners shall value and ascertain the damages to
be suffered and sustained by each and every person through whose ground the said road shall pass,
and shall cause. a plot of said road to be made out, and shall return the same, and a statement of
their proceedings had in virtue of this act, under -their hands and seals, to the clerk of Baltimore
county 'court, there to be kept as other public records are; provided, that nothing in this act con-
tained shall have any force, operation or effect, unless the persons interested, or conceiving them-
selves interested, in the said road, shall pay all damages ascertained as aforesaid, and all expenses
incurred in the opening, making and finishing, said road, and shall build and erect therein good and
substantial bridges at all. places where the same may be necessary; provided also, that any person
or persons through whose land the said road shall pass, not being satisfied with the damages ascer-
tained by the commissioners, -may have a jury summoned, in the usual way to ascertain the same,
whose valuation, shall be final and binding on all concerned.

CHAP. CVII.

Who shall as-
certain the da-
mages, &c.

An ACT to release to Richard Trimble the right of the state of
Maryland to the property therein mentioned.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

WHEREAS it hath been represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Richard Trim-
ble, that a certain Mary Davidson, on the third day of October, in the year eighteen hun-
dred, by her last will and testament devised to the said Richard Trimble part of lot Number 820
in the city of Baltimore, with its appertenances, and at the same time directing him to pay her just
debts, and nominating him executor thereof; that the said Richard Trimble hath paid all her just
debts, and hath been in possession of the said property ever since her death; that the said petitioner
hath lately discovered that the said will was not sufficient to convey the said property, in as much
as there were but two witnesses to the same; that the said Mary dying without heirs, the petitioner,
on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and seven, obtained out of the western shore land-
office a special warrant of escheat to affect the said lot and premises, and praying that a law may
pass releasing the right of the state of Maryland in and to the same; and the prayer of the said
petition being reasonable, therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all the estate, right, title and in-
terest, in or to the said lot of ground and premises, vested in the state of Maryland by virtue of or
under the said escheat, be and the same is hereby released and confirmed to the said Richard Trim-
H

Estate released,
&c.