1810.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Passed Decem,
her 23, 1810.

CHAP. XXIX.

An ACT for the relief of Margaret Widnor, of Harford County.

WHEREAS Margaret Widnor hath represented to this general assembly, that on the twenty-
fifth day of July, eighteen hundred and nine, she obtained from William Williamson and
June Williamson, of Muskingum county, in the state of Ohio, a deed of conveyance for a tract of
land lying and being in Harford county, which said deed is duly acknowledged according to the laws
of the state of Ohio, but not according to the laws of this state, and that since the execution of
said deed, William Williamson, one of the grantors, hath died, and hath therefore prayed that a
law may pass confirming said deed; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That a deed of conveyance from Willi-
am Williamson and Jane Williamson, of Muskingum county, in the state of Ohio, bearing date on
the twenty-fifth day of July, eighteen hundred and nine, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to
be, a good and valid deed to convey and pass to the said Margaret Widnor, all the right, title and
estate, of the said William and Jane Williamson, of, in and to, the land mentioned and described
in said deed, in as full and ample manner as if the said William and Jane Williamson had proceeded
agreeably to the laws of this state in the conveyance of the same, provided the said deed shall be
recorded in Harford county court within six months from the passage of this act, and provided the
said Margaret Widnor records with said deed a receipt in full from the executor or executors, ad-
ministrator or administrators, of said William Williamson, for the purchase money of said land.

CHAP. XXX.

Passed Decem-
ber 23, 1810.

An ACT to open a Road in Washington County.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That James Prather, David Cushwa and John
Fight, or a majority of them, are hereby appointed commissioners to survey and lay off a pub-
lic road, not exceeding thirty feet in width, beginning at the Pennsylvania line on the little cove
road near to Eli Williams's saw mill, and thence by and through the lands of Philip Means and
George Dunn, and thence to intersect the main road leading from Hagar's-Town to Cumberland,
near to Denton Jacques's old furnace; provided the same shall not be laid out to run over the or-
chard, garden or meadow, of any person, without the consent of the owners thereof, and when
so surveyed and laid off, to return a plot thereof to the clerk of said county, to be there filed.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of said county be and is hereby empowered, at
the next court thereafter, to appoint an overseer or overseers to clear and open said road, accord-
ing to said plot, and to levy such sum of money as in the discretion of said court shall be consi-
dered reasonable, for the purpose of clearing and opening said road as aforesaid; and the said road,
when surveyed, laid out and opened, as aforesaid, shall be deemed a. public road, and shall be kept
in repair as other public roads in said county are.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners shall be entitled to receive, as a com-
pensation, the sum of two dollars for every day they shall attend for the discharge of the duties re-
quired of them by this act, and the said overseer or overseers shall receive the same compensation
which the overseers of public roads respectively receive, which compensation shall be respectively
levied, collected and paid., in the same manner that other county charges are.

CHAP. XXXI.

Passed Decem-
ber 23, 1810.

A Supplement to an Act, entitled, An Act to lay out and make pub-
lic a Road therein mentioned in Caecil County, passed the sixth
day of January, eighteen hundred and nine.

WHEREAS it hath been represented to this general assembly, that the commissioners named
in the original law to which this is a supplement, did not proceed to lay out the road by said
law contemplated to be opened agreeably to the provisions of said act; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Caecil county be
and they are hereby authorised to nominate and appoint three persons as commissioners, who shall
be authorised to lay oat and open said, road agreeably to the provisions of said original act.