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by render it of little value to the poor-house aforesaid for cultivation; therefore, BE IT ENACTED,
That it shall and may be lawful for the trustees of the poor of Baltimore county for the time being,
to lease out, on such terms as they may deem most advantageous, all such part of said ground as
may be separated by the road aforesaid, and lying on. the east side of the same.
V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all rents received for the ground which may be leased by the
trustees aforesaid, shall be and remain for the use of the poor of said county.
VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the aforesaid road shall have been opened as aforesaid, the
same shall thereafter be deemed and taken a public highway for ever, and shall be kept in repair as
other public roads or highways of Baltimore county now are.
VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all expences incurred in the surveying, laying off or opening,
of the aforesaid road, shall be defrayed by the petitioners for the same, or by those persons who
may be interested therein, otherwise this law to have no effect.
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CHAP.
XXXIV.
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CHAP. XXXV.
An ACT appointing Richard Cramphin, Benjamin Lowndes and
George Calvert, commissioners for the purposes therein men-
tioned.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of
the town of Bladensburgh, and its vicinity, that about the year seventeen hundred and se-
venty-one, when the act of assembly regulating the inspection of tobacco expired, certain traders
residing in the said town of Bladensburgh, associated and entered into an agreement with two per-
sons for the receiving and viewing of tobacco in said town, under certain regulations, in which it
was stipulated, that all surplus money, after defraying the expences incident to said regulations,
should be applied, and were appropriated, to the use and benefit of the said town, of Bladensburgh
that after paying all the charges for receiving and viewing of tobacco during the continuance of the
said association, a surplus, of upwards of seventy pounds current money was deposited in the hands
of a certain Robert Dick, now deceased, to be applied to the use of the town aforesaid: And
whereas the said surplus money, deposited in the hands of the said Robert Dick, now remains in the
hands of his. executor, who is willing to pay the same to any person or persons authorised to receive
the same, in order that it may be applied to the purposes for which it was raised and intended;
therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the executor of the said Robert
Dick, or such other person or persons as may have received any or all of the surplus money raised
as aforesaid, for the purpose aforesaid, shall, and he or they are hereby directed and required, to
pay the same to Richard Cramphin, Benjamin Lowndes and George Calvert, or either of them, or
their order.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Richard Cramphin, Benjamin Lowndes and George
Calvert, or a majority of them, shall, as. soon as conveniently may be after they shall have received
the surplus money aforesaid, proceed to cause the bars, shoals, and other obstructions to navigation,
in the Eastern Branch, nearest to the said town of Bladensburgh, to. be removed, and the navigation
of the said branch improved in, the best manner the said surplus money will admit.
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Passed 25th of
January, 1806.
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C H A P. XXXVI.
An ACT authorising Jacob Schnebly, late collector of Washington
county, to complete his collection.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Jacob Schnebly, late
collector of Washington county, that from various, causes, therein set forth, he has not been
able to complete his collection within the time limitted by law, and that there is still due to him, as
collector of said county, considerable sums of money, and praying, at law may pass to enable, him to
collect the same; therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said Jacob Schnebly be and he
is hereby authorised to collect, until the first day of May, eighteen hundred and six, all balances
due him as collector of Washington county for the year eighteen hundred and three, in the same
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Passed 25th of
January, 1806.
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