1810.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
XCVI.

France and the West-Indies, or elsewhere, as well as in this state, so far as he has in law or equity
any power or control over the same, has been duly assigned, transferred and conveyed, to such
trustee as the said court has appointed, or may appoint, for the benefit of his creditors, and that
he has executed and delivered to such trustee all such deeds, letters of attorney, and other docu-
ments, as may be necessary for the effectual conveyance and transfer of such property and effects
and obtaining the delivery and possession thereof to such trustee.

CHAP. XCVII.

Passed Decem-
ber 24, 1810.

A Supplement lo an Act, entitled, An Act to incorporate a Com-
pany to make a Turnpike Road from near Ellicott's Lower Mills to-
wards George-Town, in the District of Columbia.

WHEREAS it hath been represented to this general assembly, by the petition of a number of
the commissioners appointed to receive subscriptions for making a turnpike road from near
Ellicott's lower mills towards George-town, that they opened subscription books, but that a suffi-
cient number of shares could not be obtained to authorise the organization of the company, owing
to a restriction in the law, that the said road was to be located so as to cross Hock Creek, at not
less than three miles above George-town; and that difficulties have also arisen on account of the
large number of shares limitted to be subscribed before the law could legally go into operation; and
therefore they prayed that a supplement to the said law might pass authorising the president and
managers, that may be appointed, to locate the said road on such direction as may be found most con-
venient, without paying any regard to the restriction before mentioned, which appearing reasonable,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
president and managers who may hereafter be chosen in conformity to the act to which this is a sup-
plement, and they are hereby authorised, to locate the said road from near Ellicott's lower mills to
the line of the district of Columbia, on a direction towards George-town, in such manner as they
may apprehend most beneficial to the public, without having any regard to the restriction contained
in the said law to cross Rock Creek not less than three miles above George-town, and the commis-
sioners named in the said law, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised to open subscription
books at such times and places as they may think proper, and to receive subscriptions in addition to
those already subscribed, and when five hundred shares of the said stock shall be subscribed, to call
a meeting of the subscribers in order to organize the company agreeably to the act to which this is
a supplement, any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAP. XCVIII.

Passed Decem-
ber 24, 1810.

An ACT for the relief of William Caton, of the City of Annapolis.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the judges of Anne-Arundel county,
or any one of them, be and they are hereby authorised and directed, to extend to Wil-
liam Caton, of the city of Annapolis, the benefit and relief of the act of assembly passed at No-
vember session, eighteen hundred and five, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debt-
ors, and the supplementary acts thereto, without compelling the said William Caton to produce any
evidence of his having resided in the state of Maryland for the two years last previous to his ap-
plication for the benefit thereof, in the same manner as if he had actually resided within this state
agreeably to the provisions of the said act and the supplementary acts thereto.

CHAP. XCIX.

Passed Decem-
ber 24, 1810.

An ACT to provide for the building a Bridge over Big Pipe Creek,,
in Frederick County.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of Fre-
derick county shall and may, at any time within two years from the passage of this act, levy
upon the taxable property in said county a sum of money not exceeding five hundred dollars, for
the purpose of building a bridge over Big Pipe Creek in said county, at the fording place on said
creek, where the road commonly called the New Baltimore Road leading from Taney-town, in the
county aforesaid, to the city of Baltimore, crosses said creek.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices aforesaid shall, as soon as conveniently may be after
the levying of the money aforesaid, cause a bridge to be erected over the said stream at the
place aforesaid, in such manner as the said justices shall think most advantageous for the public,
and the sum of money so as aforesaid to be levied, or so much thereof as may be necessary for that
purpose, shall be applied to the payment of the expense of erecting said bridge.