1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 97.
Company to
open, &c.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That James Roe, John Campbell, Thomas
Jones, George F. Mason, Charles Lane, Bennet Downes,
Richard Jarrell, Benjamin Willson, Thomas Clendenning,
John McFarlin, Joel Clements, John Thawley, Philemon
Skinner, Jonathan Spencer, James S. Baynard, John W.
F. Jackson, Thomas Roe, Charles Adams, Marseillers E.
Keen, John H. Straughn, William F. Harrison, William
F. Jarrell, William R. Keen and James Merrick, and all
others the owners of the lands through which the said
Long Marsh Ditch passes, and all those persons who shall
be deemed benefitted by opening said ditch, as hereinafter
will be provided, shall compose a company called the
Long Marsh Ditch Company, and by that name may sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded.

Annual meet-

ing.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said company shall
hold their first meeting at the village of Bridgetown, in
Caroline county, on the first Saturday in April in the pre-
sent year, and at such place and such time every year
thereafter as the said company may determine, and the
said annual meeting may be adjourned from time to time,
as occasion may require.

Commissioners.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That John B. Thomas and
Samuel Vickers, of Queen Ann county, and John M.
Cannon, of Caroline county, be and they are hereby ap-

pointed commissioners, and in case of a vacancy or va-
cancies occurring in said board of commissioners, by rea-
son of refusal to serve, resignation, death, disqualification
or removal, such vacancy or vacancies, on the application

of this State, shall be filled by appointment made by the
Governor, said appointment to be from the county from

Commissioners

duties specified.

whence such vacancy shall have occurred; the duties of
said commissioners shall be, as soon as appointed, to
proceed to examine said ditch, and all the lands through
which it passes, together with the tributary streams and
ditches emptying into said ditch, and shall determine and
fix a fair valuation upon all such lands or tracts of land
through which the said ditch passes, and shall fix and de-
termine also, cases where persons own land on each side
of said ditch opposite, as said ditch may be the line be-
tween such owners; and the said commissioners shall also
particularly examine Long Marsh Ditch, all the tributary
streams and ditches emptying into said Long Marsh Ditch,
and shall also fix and determine whether any or what in-
dividual or individuals is or are benefitted by said Long