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An ACT to give validity and operation to the Deed of Conveyance
therein mentioned.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the deed of conveyance from Stephen
Freeman to John Cushwa, of Washington county, dated the eighteenth day of February, in
the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and acknowledged on the eigh-
teenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and
recorded among the land records of Washington county, shall have the same force, operation and
effect, to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been executed, acknowledged and recorded,
according to law.
CHAP. XXII.
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Passed Decem-
ber 23, 1810.
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An ACT to repeal an Act for the more effectual preservation of the
breed of Wild Deer in Dorchester County.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That an act, entitled, An act for the more
effectual preservation of the breed of wild deer in Dorchester county, passed at November
session, eighteen hundred and eight, be and the same is hereby repealed.
II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the first, second and third clauses of an act, entitled, An act for
the preservation of wild deer, and for other purposes therein mentioned, passed at November ses-
sion, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, shall extend, and the same is hereby extended, to Dorches-
ter county.
CHAP. XXIII.
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Passed Decem-
ber 23, 1810.
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An ACT to lay out and open a Road from the Franklin Paper-Mill,
on Gwinn's Falls, in Baltimore County, to the new Liberty Road.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Henry Payson, Na-
than Levering, John Levering, Aaron Levering and Aaron R. Levering, that they are pro-
prietors of a valuable paper-mill, lately erected on Gwinn's Falls, in Baltimore county, from which
there is no public road to market, and that they are willing to pay the expense of laying out and
opening a road from the said mill to intersect the new Liberty road, and pray that a law may
pass to authorise the laying out and opening the said road; therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Thomas Wooden, Thomas Wilson
and Samuel Harden, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to sur-
vey, lay out and open, at the expense of the petitioners, a road not exceeding thirty-three feet
wide, in the best and straightest direction which the ground will admit of, from the Franklin paper-
mill on Gwinn's Falls, to the new Liberty road, in the direction towards the city of Baltimore, and
return a plot of the said road, when surveyed and laid out, to the clerk of Baltimore county, to be
by him filed and preserved among the records of the said county; and the said road, when opened
and made at the expense of the petitioners, shall be deemed, and is hereby declared, a public road
for ever, and shall be kept in repair in the same manner as other public roads in said county.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That on application of the party or parties interested, the said com-
missioners, or any two of them, shall ascertain and value what damages may be sustained by any
person or persons through whose land the said road shall pass, and the same, when so ascertained and
assessed, shall be paid, or secured to be paid, by the said petitioners, before the commissioners ap-
pointed by this act shall proceed to open the said road; provided always, that if any person or per-
sons through whose land the said road shall pass, or his, her or their guardian or trustee, shall con-
ceive themselves aggrieved by such valuation and assessment of damages, it shall and may be law-
ful for the said commissioners, or any two of them, to issue their warrant to the sheriff of the
county, to summon twelve disinterested freeholders of said county, to appear on the premises on a
day by them to be appointed, and the commissioners are hereby authorised to administer an oath to
every person so summoned, that he will, without favour, affection, partiality or prejudice, assess
the damages sustained by the person or persons at whose request such inquisition shall be taken, by
reason of opening said road through his, her or their land, and the persons so summoned and sworn,
shall thereupon proceed to value and assess the damages accordingly, of which the said petitioners,
or some one of them, shall have five days previous notice at the least, and such inquisition shall be,
final and conclusive between the parties.
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Passed Decem-
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