ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1807.

of the third line of lot number twenty-one, as it now stands, provided that nothing herein contained
shall affect the right of any other person.

CHAP. CXX.

CHAP.

CXIX.

An ACT to appoint and authorise commissioners to review and lay
out the road therein mentioned in Harford county.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

WHEREAS by an act, entitled, A further supplement to an act to straighten part of the road
in Harford county which leads from Underhill's mill to the city of Baltimore, certain com-
missioners were appointed to review a part of the aforesaid road as therein stated, with power to
straighten the same in such manner and in such places as they shall think right: And whereas it is
represented to this general assembly, by the petition of a number of the inhabitants of Harford
county aforesaid, that the said road has been straightened and laid out through a certain tract of land
for which unreasonable damages have been assessed, and the public if any very little benefitted there-
by, and praying that the said law may be repealed, and that other commissioners may be appointed to
review again and lay out said road; and the prayer being reasonable, and the road of great public
utility, therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Thomas M'Kinnon, Josiah Johnson,
William Pyle, Joshua Rutledge and Jacob Gladden, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners
of review, to review the road leading from Underhill's mill to the city of Baltimore, beginning at a
place known by the name of Sandy Bottom, and they, or a majority of them, be and they are here-
by authorised to review, lay out and survey, mark and bound, the said road from the place afore-
said to the Rock ford on the Little Falls of Gunpowder, and shall return a plot thereof to the clerk's
office of said county, to be there recorded; provided, that the said road shall not be laid through
the yard, garden or orchard, of any person, without their consent.

Commissioners
appointed, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of Harford county be and they are hereby em-
powered and directed, to warrant, under their hands and seals, to appoint an overseer or overseers,
to open, clear and keep in repair, said road, agreeably to said plot, in the same manner as other
roads are by law directed to be opened, cleared and kept in repair.

Court to ap-
point an over-
seer, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of Harford county be and they are hereby em-
powered and authorised, at any time after such plot shall be returned, to levy on the assessable pro-
perty of said county such sum of money as they shall deem necessary, to the applied to the opening
and clearing said road, which sum shall be collected and paid over as other county charges.

And levy mo-
ney, &c.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, may, and they
are hereby authorised, to assess the damages, if any, sustained by individuals over whose lands the
said road may be laid out, taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages, if any, and
to return such assessment to the aforesaid levy court, to be levied, collected and paid, as other
county charges are levied, collected and paid, from which assessment there shall be no appeal.

Damages to be
assessed, &c.

VI. AND, whereas David Street, by his petition to this general assembly hath set forth, that he
has sustained damages to a greater amount than he has been allowed on account of the said road
being laid through his land; therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That the aforesaid commissioners be and
they arc hereby authorised to assess such further damages for the said David Street, as they, or a
majority of. them, shall think him entitled to, if any, and on account of that part of the road which
leads from the aforesaid Underhill's mill to the Sandy Bottom that is already laid out and opened
through his land, taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages, if any, and to return
such assessment, if any they find, to the aforesaid levy court, to be by them levied, collected and
paid, 'as other county charges are levied, collected and paid, from which assessment there shall be
no appeal.

Further da-
mages to be as-
sessed, &c.

VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners shall have an allowance of two dollars for
every day they shall attend in discharge of their duties herein imposed.

Commissioners
allowance.

VIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the act, entitled, A further supplement to an act to straighten
part of the road in Harford county which leads from Underhill's mill to the city of Baltimore, pass-
ed at the last session of assembly, be and the same is hereby repealed, except the repealing clause
therein mentioned*

An act repeated.