1S39.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 118.

authorised to enquire into the condition of a certain negro
named George Lightner, alias George Warner, heretofore
convicted in said court, for felony, and sold out of the
State in pursuance of the act of eighteen hundred and
thirty-five, chapter two hundred, and if they should ascer-

If a slave, &c.

tain that the said negro was a slave, then the said court is
required to order the sheriff to pay over to the master of
the said slave, the nett amount of the proceeds of sale of
said slave.

CHAPTER 118.

Passed Mar. 20,
1840.

An act entitled an act to provide for the appointing of Com-
missioners to assess and award damages to sundry citizens
of Carroll County.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly by
the petition of sundry citizens of Carroll county, that by an
act of Assembly passed at December session eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-four, chapter one hundred and ninety-five,
and a supplement thereto, passed at December session eigh-
teen hundred and thirty-five, chapter fifty-nine, certain com-
missioners were appointed to lay out and open a road from
Philip Nichodemus's mill in Frederick county to Christian
Groves' Tavern in Baltimore county, and to assess dama-
ges, &c. and whereas, said road has been laid out and open-
ed, and many persons whose lands it has passed through
to their great injury have not received any compensation
for damages done by the opening of said road — Therefore,

Commissioners
to view road and

assess damages.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the commissioners
of tax for Carroll county to appoint, on or before the first
day of July next, three disinterested persons, citizens of
said county, as commissioners, to view said road, so far as
it passes through Carroll county, and to assess and award
such damages to each and every person whose lands said
road passes through as they may think just and right, they
taking into consideration both the advantages and disad-

To make return.

vantages to said persons; and it shall be the duty of said
commissioners to make a return to the commissioners of
tax for said county, on or before the first day of August next,
the amount of money awarded to each person as aforesaid.

Levy to be made.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for
the commissioners of tax for said county in their discre-