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Passed 25th of
January, 1806.
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AN ACT to lay out, open and clear, a road in Harford county,
beginning at the end of Patrick Smith's lane, where the Peach
Bottom road crosses the York road leading to Rock Run, to inter-
sect the main road leading from the Black House to the Pennsylva-
nia line, at Miers's mill, on Deer creek.
WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Harford county, by their petition to this general assembly
have prayed that a public road may be laid out, opened and cleared, beginning at the end of
Patrick Smith's lane, where the Peach Bottom road crosses the York road leading to Rock Run, to
intersect the main road leading from the Black House to the Pennsylvania line, at Miers's mill, or
Beer creek, and that the same will be a great public convenience; and the prayer of said petitioner
being considered reasonable, therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Thomas Montgomery, William
Whiteford and James Barton, of John, of Harford county, or a majority of them, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioner to survey, lay out and open, a road in said county, from the end of
Patrick Smith's lane, where the Peach Bottom road crosses the York road leading to Rock Run, to
intersect the main road leading from the Black House to the Pennsylvania line, at Miers's mill, on
Deer creek, and in as streight a direction as the nature of the ground. will admit, and with as little
injury to the individuals over whose lands the same may pass as may comport with the public conve-
nience, and provided that the said road shall not be laid out through the garden, yard, meadow or
orchard, of any individual, without his or her consent in writing first had and obtained and a plot
of said road, when surveyed and laid out, together with a certificate of the courses of the same
shall be returned by the commissioners aforesaid to the levy court, who are hereby authorised and
empowered to confirm, or for sufficient cause, reject the same, and in case the same shall be re-
jected as aforesaid, the said court are hereby further authorised to direct the said commissioners
herein named again to survey and lay out said road as aforesaid, and return a plot thereof, with
certificate of the courses as aforesaid, and so from time to time, till a plot shall be returned
which shall be confirmed by said court, with the certificate of the courses of said road, which
plot and certificate so returned shall be recorded among the records and proceedings of said
court.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the plot of said road shall have been confirmed and re-
corded as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the levy court of said county to levy, upon the
assessable property in said county, a sum of money, such as they shall deem accessary for survey-
ing and opening the said road, and to appoint an overseer or overseers to open and clear said road,
agreeable to the plot and certificate aforesaid, who shall give bond in like manner as other overseen
of public roads are directed to give bond, and shall have. the same allowance; and the said road,
when opened and cleared as aforesaid, shall be and the same is hereby declared to be thereafter a
public road, and shall be kept in repair as other public roads in said county.
IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners respectively herein before named, shall be
entitled, to receive, for every day they shall severally attend to discharge the duties required by this
act, the sum of two dollars, which is hereby directed to be levied, collected and paid, as other coun-
ty charges are levied, collected and paid.
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