1806.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
XXXIII,

N. Rochester
may collect,
&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said Nathaniel Rochester be
and he is hereby authorised to collect, until the first day of December, eighteen hundred and
seven, all balances due him as sheriff and collector of Washington county for the year eighteen
hundred and six, in the same manner as he could or might have done within the time limitted by
law, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

An account to
be delivered,
&c.

Ill. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the duty of the said Nathaniel Rochester, before he
proceeds to execute or distrain the property of any person or persons for taxes, officers fees or
public dues, in virtue of this act, to deliver to such person or persons chargeable with the same, at
least thirty days previous to levying such execution or distress, an account, written in words at full
length, of the taxes, officers fees, or public dues, demanded of him, her or them, with an affidavit
annexed, if required, that he hath not received any part thereof, nor anything as security or sa-
tisfaction for the same, more than credit given, to the best of his knowledge.

Books to be
lodged, &c.

IV, AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Nathaniel Rochester, before he derives any benefit
from or under this act, shall lodge a copy of his collection books in the clerk's office of Washington
county, to be opened for the inspection of all persons interested in the same.
CHAP. XXXIV.

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1807.

A Further supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the relief of
the poor in Talbot county.

Court to elect
trustees, &c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the Gent ral Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Talbot county, or a
majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised and required, on their next annual meet-
Jug, to elect, nominate and choose, five persons of good character of said county, not related either
in consanguinity or affinity to each other, as trustees for the poor of said county, and that the trus-
tees, so appointed, be and are hereby empowered, with full and sufficient authority to discharge the
several offices, duties and trusts, reposed in them, and shall qualify in the same manner as is re-
quired by the act to which this is a supplement.

How vacancies
are to be filled,
&c.

II. AND, to perpetuate the succession of the aforesaid number of five trustees for the poor in the
said county, BE IT ENACTED, That as often as any one of the said trustees for the poor shall die,
or remove himself out of the county, refuse to qualify himself as required by the act to which this
is a supplement, or become incapable of acting, the levy court of said county, on their first meeting
thereafter, are hereby authorised and required to elect, nominate and choose, one of the inhabitants
of the county, of good character, in the place and room of such trustee, and so to fill up the full
number of trustees for such alms and work-house, the which persons, so elected and chosen from
time to time, are always to be qualified in the same manner as before directed by the act to which
this is a supplement.

A person to be
elected annual-
ly, &c.

III. AND, to prevent individuals from being unreasonably burthened with the act to which this is
a supplement, as trustees for the poor, BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of said county shall
and may annually elect and choose a person of good character from amongst the inhabitants of said
county, to be a trustee for the poor of that county, in the stead of the first named or eldest of the
said trustees of the same county, which said first named or eldest trustee shall be and is by virtue
hereof, thenceforth discharged from his office.

Part of an act
repealed.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the act to which this is a supplement as is contrary
to, or inconsistent with, this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAP. XXXV.

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1807.

An ACT to lay out and open a road near the Three Bridges, in Ca-
roline county.

Preamble..

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants o.
Caroline county, that they suffer many inconveniencies from the want of a road, to com-
mence at or near a red" house, the property of Daniel Swiggott, on the main road leading from the
Three Bridges to Collin's Cross Roads, and running in the streightest direction that the nature of
the ground, and other circumstances, will admit, until it intersects a new road leading or passing
by Solomon Richardson's dwelling house, in Caroline county: therefore,

Commissioner
appointed, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General of Maryland, That Sethhell Evitt, William Summery
Abraham Evitt, James Keene and Joseph Anthony, or any three of them, be and they are hereby