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CHAP.
X.
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II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the orphans court of Montgomery
county shall have full power and authority, upon application of the said Margaret Perry, Josiah
Jones and Robert Jones, on the part of the said widow and children, and being satisfied that it will
promote the interests of the said widow and children, to order the sale of the said moiety of the mill
herein before mentioned, upon such terms as the said court may think proper, and to authorise the
said Margaret Perry, Josiah Jones and Robert Jones, to effect such sale.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any sale made by the authority of the orphans court of said
county under this act, shall be notified to, and confirmed by, the orphans court aforesaid, before the
conveyance of the property shall be made, and bond, with good and sufficient security, in the name
of the state of Maryland, to be approved of by the orphans court of said county, shall be given
by the said Margaret Perry, Josiah Jones and Robert Jones, when empowered to sell the moiety of
the mill as aforesaid, for the due execution of the trust committed to them, which bond shall be
lodged with the register of wills for the county aforesaid, and the said bond shall be recorded and
to be subject to be put in suit by any person or persons interested therein, in the same manner as
administration bonds now are.
IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Margaret Perry, Josiah Jones and Robert Jones, under
the directions of the orphans court for the county aforesaid, shall be accountable for, and pay over
the money arising from the said moiety of the mill above mentioned, in such manner us the court
aforesaid shall or may direct.
V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any conveyance or deed made by the said Margaret Perry, Josiah
Jones and Robert Jones, pursuant to the directions of the orphans court of the county aforesaid,
shall and is hereby declared to be valid and effectual to pass and convey all the right, title and in-
terest, of the infant children of the said James Wilson. Perry, deceased, in and to the premises
aforesaid, to the purchaser or purchasers of the same.
CHAP. XI.
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Passed Decem-
ber 23, 1810.
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An ACT to lay out and make public a Road in Anne-Arundel
County.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Lancelot Warfield, William D. Mer-
riken, Augustine Gambrill, Matthias Hammond and Abner Linthicum, are hereby appointed com-
missioners, to lay out, survey, mark, bound and open, a public road in said county, at the expense
of those willing to contribute thereto, not exceeding twenty feet in width, beginning at a bounded
stone standing by William Merriken's gate, on the road leading from the priest's bridge over the
Patuxent river, to run in the most convenient direction the nature of the ground will admit of, to
pass at or near Caleb Sappington's blacksmith shop, thence in the most direct and convenient
course to intersect the road leading from the city of Annapolis to Hammond's or Cragg's ferry, on
the Patapsco, and they are hereby required to return a plot of the same to the clerk's office of Anne-
Arundel county, to be there recorded, and when the said road shall be so opened, it shall be deemed
and considered a public road, and kept in repair as other public roads are in said county.
II. AND BE IT ENACTED. That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, be and they are
hereby authorised and required to assess the damages sustained by the individuals over whose land
the said road may run, taking into consideration the advantages, and the same, when so assessed,
shall be paid, or secured to be paid, by the persons interested in opening the said road, to the person
or persons entitled to receive the same, before the said road, after it is laid off, shall be opened or
cleared.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or persons over whose land the said road shall
pass, or his, her or their guardian or trustee, shall conceive himself, herself or themselves aggrieved
by such valuation or assessment of damages by the said commissioners, it shall and may be lawful
for any justice of the peace, on his, her or their application, to issue a warrant, under his hand and
Seal, directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon twelve disinterested men,
qualified to serve as jurors in the county court, to meet upon the premises on a certain day, of
which ten days notice at least shall be given to the party or parties interested; and the said jurors,
when so met, and having each first taken an oath before some justice of the peace of said county,
that he will, without favour, affection, prejudice or partiality, assess the damages sustained by the
person or persons at whose request such inquisition shall be taken, by reason of opening the afore-
said road through his, her or their land, shall thereupon proceed to assess and value the damages
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