THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

and James Jarboe, be, and they, or.a majority of them,
are hereby appointed Commissioners for the purpose
of laying out a public road in St. Mary's county, com-
mencing at a public landing near John Holton's, on
the Patuxent river, and running a southerly direction,
until it intersects the Three Notch Road; and make out
and return a plot with the probable cost of opening
said road, to the levy court of St. Mary's county,
which plot shall be recorded among the records of said
levy court, and said road, when so opened, shall be a
public road forever, and shall be kept in repair by
said county.

CHAP. 285.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said commission-
ers shall return an account to the levy court, under
oath, of all the expense attending the survey and loca-
tion of said road, including two dollars for each and

Accounts there-
for.

every day they shall attend, to be levied and paid as
other county charges are now paid.

Levy.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said commission-
ers, before they shall proceed to act, shall take an oath
before some justice of the peace, that he will without
favour, partiality or prejudice, assess the damage, if
any, sustained by the person or persons through whose
land the said road will pass; said damages to be levied,
collected and paid over as other county charges are;

Oath required.

provided, that nothing in this act contained shall de-
prive any owner of land, who is dissatisfied with the
assessment of the commissioners herein named, or who
is an infant, feme covert or non compos mentis, of the
benefit of a trial by jury in the usual form of inquisi-
tion adquod damnum.

CHAPTER 285.

Reservation.

A supplement to the act, entitled, an act to invest the
State's share of the Surplus Revenue of the United
States, and for other purposes, passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, chapter two
hundred and twenty.

Passed Mar. 28,
1838.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the interest that has accrued, and

Fund referred
to.