ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1805

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Dorchester coun-
ty be and they are hereby directed and empowered, at their levy court annually, so long as they, shall
cause, to assess and levy on the assessable property of the said county a sum of money, not ex-
ceeding fifteen dollars each, for the support and maintenance of the said Covington Jones and wife, and
at the same be collected annually by the collector or collectors of Dorchester county, and paid to
such person or persons, for the use of the said Covington Jones and wife, as the levy court of said
county shall direct.

CHAP.
XLIX.

C H A P. L.

An ACT to provide for recording certain papers in the register's
office of Dorchester county.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that a number of wills, and other papers,
appertaining to the estates of deceased persons, remain unrecorded in the register's office of
Dorchester county, and that said wills, are liable to be damaged or lost; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly, of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the

justices of the orphans court of Dorchester county, and they are hereby empowered and required,
to cause to be recorded by the register of wills of said county, in good leather bound books, to which
fair and regular alphabets shall be prefixed, all such papers filed in the office of the register of wills
said county, and which have, not been recorded, as. they, or a majority of them, in their judgment
may deem necessary and proper to be recorded.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said register shall receive the same fees, for his said services
as he is by law entitled to for services of a similar nature.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of Dorchester county may and shall levy on the
assessable property of said county, such sum of money as the fees for recording said wills and other
papers may amount, to, to be collected and paid over by the sheriff of Dorchester county to the re-
gister aforesaid.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall continue in force until the first Day of March,

eighteen hundred and nine, and no longer.

Passed 25th of
January, 1806.

C H A P. LI.

An ACT to lay out and open a certain road in Baltimore county to
intersect the main road leading from Cromwell's bridge to Baltimore.

WHEREAS it has been represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabi-
tants of Baltimore county, that they are situated between two public roads, and having no
permanent outlet to either, and representing, that all parties through whose lands the contemplated
and should pass having mutually agreed, and praying that. a law may pass for that purpose and the
prayer of the petitioners appearing reasonable, therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Thomas Hellen, Thomas Taylor,
Benjamin Gatch, Benjamin Tracey and Josias Stevenson, or any three of them, be and they are
hereby appointed and commissioned, at the expence of the petitioners, or those who may be inte-
rested therein, to survey, mark, bound and lay out, a public road, not to exceed thirty feet wide,
beginning at the plantation of John Stansbury, and running by the methodist meeting-house, called
Joseph Taylor's, Meeting-House, and near Benjamin Tracey's mill, and from thence until it inter-
sects the main road leading from Cromwell's bridge to Baltimore, and in laying out the said road the
said commissioners are directed to take into view, as well the disadvantages which may result to in-
dividuals over whose land the said road may run, as the convenience of the public, so as to lay out
the said road with as little injury to the private property as will comport with the public convenience.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby di-
rected to return a plot of said road, when surveyed, marked, bounded and laid out as aforesaid, to
the clerk of the county, to be by him recorded, which road, when laid out and cleared, shall be
deemed and taken a public road for ever thereafter, and shall be kept up and repaired as all other
public roads in said county are; provided, that nothing herein contained shall in any manner au-
thorise the said commissioners to lay out or open the said road through the buildings, gardens,
orchards or meadows, of any person or persons, without his, her or their consent.

Passed 25th of
January, 1806.