1805.

NOVEMBER LAWS OF MARY L A N D

C H A P LXXXIX.

Passed 25th of
January, 1806.

An additional supplement to an act, entitled, An act to extend the
powers of the levy court of Allegany county relative to roads in
said county.

WHEREAS by an act passed at November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, chapter
fifty-two, power is given to the supervisors of public roads in Allegany county to summons
and compel all able bodied male persons, above a certain age, to work annually four, days on the pub-
lic roads in said county; and the drawing them out the full four days as authorised, appearing incon-
venient and unnecessary, therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Allegany county
shall have power, and they are hereby directed, annually, at their August meeting, to fix and deter-
mine upon the number of days the respective supervisors by them appointed shall be authorised to
summons or warn all the able bodied male persons in said county, above the age of sixteen, to assist
in repairing the public roads therein; provided nevertheless, that the power hereby given to the
levy court as aforesaid, shall not be considered as authorising the reduction of more than two days
of labour in any one year, and that it shall and may be lawful for every person who shall be sum-
moned or warned to work as aforesaid, and for every master or mistress of servants, in lieu of work-
ing on the public roads as aforesaid, to pay to the supervisor of their district the sum of thirty-
seven and a half cents for each and every day any person shall be summoned or warned to work as
aforesaid.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the act passed at November session, seventeen hun-
dred and ninety-four, chapter fifty-two, as is inconsistent herewith, shall be and the same is hereby
repealed.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act and the act to which this is a supplement, be and, they;
are hereby continued for and during the term. of four years, and until the. end of the next session of
assembly which shall happen thereafter.

Passed 25th of
January, 1806.

CHAP. XC.

An ACT for the benefit of Colmore Duvall, of Prince-George's county,

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Colmore Duvall, that
in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, he did contract with William Brogden, of
Anne-Arundel county, and Thomas Lansdale, late of Prince-George's county, commissioners to
contract for building a bridge over Patuxent river, at the town of Queen-Anne, and that he did, in
pursuance of said contrail, in the said year seventeen hundred and ninety-seven; finish the said
bridge, and did give his bond to keep the same in repair for ten years from the date of said bond;
that the said bridge was built in a superior manner, and would have lasted considerably longer than
the time stipulated in said bond, had it not been wholly swept away on the seventeenth day of June,
eighteen hundred and four, by a flood of water unparallelled in said river, which entirely covered
the said bridge before it moved from its foundation; that shortly before the said bridge was destroy-
ed he, the said Duvall, at considerable expence, repaired the same; that after the said bridge had
been destroyed in manner aforesaid, the said Duvall, at the instance of many of tire citizens of
Anne-Arundel and Prince-George's counties, did rebuild the said bridge, under a confidence that a
reasonable compensation would be allowed him by the levy courts of Anne-Arundel and Prince-
George's counties: And whereas many of the citizens of said counties have signed the petition of
the said Duvall, and recommended that a law may pass authorising and directing the levy courts of
Anne-Arundel and Prince-George's counties to levy such sums of money for the use of the said Du-
vall, as the said courts may think just and reasonable for defraying the expences of rebuilding the
bridge aforesaid; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy courts of Anne-Arundel
and Prince-George's counties respectively, shall take into consideration the several sums of money
heretofore received by the said Colmore Duvall for building a bridge, commonly called The Gover-
nor's Bridge, and the bridges aforesaid at Queen-Anne, and if in their judgment it shall appear that
he hath not received a full and sufficient compensation for the same, they shall, and they are hereby
authorised, at the time of laying their next county levies, to proceed to levy on the assessable pro-
perty of each county a sum of money, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars, for the use of the
said Colmore Duvall.;