WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

may pass, from having the privilege of keeping a free
gate, or gates on said road.

CHAP. 99.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That said commissioners,
or a majority of them, are hereby directed to return a
plat of said landing and road, when surveyed, mark-
ed, laid out and made public as aforesaid, to the. clerk
of the county court, to be by him recorded, which land-
ing and road, shall forever hereafter, be deemed and
taken as a public landing and road, and shall be kept
up and repaired, as other public landings and roads in
said county are; provided, that nothing herein contain-
ed, shall in any manner authorize the said commission-
ers, to lay out the said landing and road, through the
buildings, orchard, garden or yard, of any person or
persons, without his, her or their consent.

Shall return a plat.

Which shall be re-
corded.

Public landing and

road.

Restrictions.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid com-
missioners, or a majority of them, shall ascertain the
amount of damages which any person or persons, may
sustain, by the laying out and marking said lot of
ground and road, -which amount they shall return to
the commissioners of St.. Mary's county, who are here-
by authorized and directed to levy upon the assessable
property of said county, a sum sufficient to cover all
such damages, and pay the same, to the person or per-
sons entitled thereto, including two dollars each, for
every day said commissioners shall attend, in the dis-
charge of the duties enjoined upon them by this act.

CHAPTER 99.

Ascertain damages

Levy directed.

A further additional supplement to an act, entitled, an
act to incorporate a company for the purpose of cut-
ting and making a Canal, between the River Dela-
ware, and the Chesapeake Bay.

Passed Feb. 27,
1839.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful from and af-
ter the passage of this act, for the Chesapeake and Dela-
ware Canal company, to charge such toll on sawed lum-
ber and square or round timber, transported thereon in
rafts, as in their discretion they may think proper; pro-
vided the said toll shall not exceed one dollar per hun-
dred cubic feet, on such, lumber or timber.

Discretionary pow-
ers as to tolls on
rafts.

Limitation.