EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER,

1810.

applying for a re-valuation shall pay all the expenses of the same, but in case they return a greater
amount then the levy court shall levy, and cause the same to be collected and paid over, as other
county charges are levied, collected and paid.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforesaid commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby
empowered to review the said road, as continued, from the place where the said Isaac Davis did live
to the cross roads, to alter, straighten and amend the same, in such places as they in their judgment
may deem necessary, consistent with the least possible injury to private property, and having taken
the oaths heretofore prescribed, estimate the damages sustained by individuals, and the same return,
with a plot thereof, to the levy court of Harford county, to be levied, collected and paid, as other
county charges.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners shall receive two dollars for every day they
shall attend in the discharge of the duties required of them by this act.

CHAP. CXIX.

CHAP.

CXVIII.

An ACT to authorise the Levy Court of Saint-Mary's County to
assess and levy a sura of Money for the benefit of John Truman
Graves.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of John Truman Graves,
of Saint-Mary's county, that while discharging his duty as a constable, by dispersing a tu-
multuous meeting of negroes in said county, he received a stroke from one of said negroes which
fractured his leg, by which he was subjected to considerable expense, and by which he is rendered a
cripple; and it being thought reasonable that said John Truman Graves should receive some remune-
ration for the injury thus sustained in the discharge of his official duties, therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Saint-Mary's coun-
ty be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to assess and levy on the assessable property
in said county, at their next annual levy, for the benefit of said John Truman Graves, such sum of
money as they in their discretion shall think right and proper, not exceeding one hundred dollars.

CHAP. CXX.

Passed Decem-
ber 25, 1810.

An ACT to make valid the Deed therein mentioned.

WHEREAS it appears by the petition of William Hebb, of Saint-Mary's county, that from
some accidental cause one of the justices attending to take the acknowledgment of a deed
from himself and wife to a certain Thomas Lynch, junior, of the said county, on the twenty-fourth
day of September, in the year eighteen hundred and seven, omitted to put his signature to the said
deed, either as a witness. or to the acknowledgment, and hath prayed this legislature to remedy the
said error; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the deed from William Hebb and
wife, to Thomas Lynch, of Saint-Mary's county, dated on the twenty-fourth day of September, in
the year eighteen hundred and seven, for one hundred acres of land, be, and the same is hereby de-
clared to be, as good and valid in law as if the same had been signed by two justices of the peace
for Saint-Mary's county, any thing in any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAP. CXXI.

Passed Decem-
ber 25, 1810.

An ACT to enable Margaret Hammond and Harriet Hammond, of
the City of Baltimore, to build a Wharf at the place called Ham-
mond's Ferry.

WHEREAS Margaret Hammond and Harriet Hammond, of the city of Baltimore, have by
their petition represented to this general assembly, that if they were empowered to build
and extend a wharf from their land situate in Anne-Arundel county, bounding on the south side of
Patapsco river, and known by the name of Hammond's Ferry, that it would be of considerable ad-
vantage, and would add to the convenience and would greatly facilitate the progress of travellers
passing and repassing said ferry; and the prayer of the petitioners being reasonable, therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said Margaret Hammond and
Harriet Hammond, their heirs and assigns, be and are hereby authorised and empowered, at any

Passed Decem-
ber 25, 1810.