1806.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.

XXXVI.

laid down by the commissioners of New-Castle county, in as. streight a line as the situation of the
lands, and the nature of the ground, will admit; and the prayer of said petitioners being consider
very reasonable, therefore,

Commissioners
appointed, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Richard Ford Alexander, Isaac
Taylor, Adam Whann, William Hollingsworth and John G. Richardson, or a majority of them,
and they are hereby appointed commissioners to survey, lay out and open, at the expence of the
proprietors of the French-town and New-Castle water and land stages, a road, forty-five feet
width, including ditches, in as streight and convenient a direction as may be, from French-town,
Caecil county, until it shall intersect the divisional line between this state, and the state of Delaware
al a road lately laid out by the commissioners of New-Castle county, in the state of Delaware
and be it provided, that the said road shall not be laid out through the garden, yard, meadow
orchard, of any individual, without his or her consent first had and obtained in writing.

Who (hall
cause a plot to
be made, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, be and they
are hereby directed and required to make, or cause to be made, a plot of said road, when survey
as aforesaid, and to ascertain and assess the damages that may be sustained by any person or person
through whose lands the same shall pass, and shall make return of said plot, together with a certi-
ficate of the courses of the said road, and their estimate of damages as aforesaid, to the clerk
Caecil county, to be recorded among the land records of the said county, and when the same shall
have been returned, and the expence, with the amount of damages so as aforesaid ascertained,
may be assessed in the manner herein after mentioned, shall have been paid, or secured to be paid
by the aforesaid proprietors of the French-town and New-Castle water and land stages, the said
shall for ever thereafter be deemed a public highway, and shall be kept in repair by the aforesaid
proprietors of the French-town and New-Castle water and land stages; provided always, that if
person or persons through whose lands the said road shall pass, or his, her or their guardian or trus-
tee, shall conceive themselves aggrieved by such valuation and assessment of damages by the said
commissioners, it shall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace of the said county of Caecil
on application of the party interested, to issue his warrant, under hand and seal, directed to
sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon twelve freeholders, disinterested as to the said
road, and qualified to serve as jurors in the county court, to appear, on a day to be appointed by
said magistrate, on the land of the person or persons making application as aforesaid; and the said
freeholders, having first made oath before some justice of the peace, that they will, without favor or
affection, prejudice or partiality, assess the damages sustained by the person or persons at which
request such inquisition shall be taken, by reason of opening the aforesaid road through his, her or
their land, shall thereupon proceed to assess and value the damages accordingly, of which the said
commissioners, and three or more of the petitioners, shall have at least five days previous not
and shall return the amount of the damages assessed to the said justice of the peace, and such
quisition and valuation shall be final and conclusive..

Their allow-
ance.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners appointed by this act shall have an allowance
of two dollars for every day they shall severally attend in discharge of the duties hereby imposed
to be paid by the aforesaid proprietors of the French-town and New-Castle water and land stages

Court may ap-
ply money, &c.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the levy court of Caecil county aforesaid should, at any time
after the completion of the aforesaid road, consider it of such utility and advantage to the county
as to make it necessary and proper that the said road be repaired at the expence of the county, that
and not otherwise, the said levy court may apply a certain proportion of road money levied unto
the county, for mending and repairing said road.

CHAP. XXXVII.

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1807.

An ACT to pay the civil list, and other expences of civil govern-
ment.

Preamble.

WHEREAS those who dedicate their time, abilities and labour, to the public, ought to receive
a reasonable and adequate compensation for their services,

Officers sala-
ries.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the following officers of civil go-
vernment for the time being shall be entitled to receive at the rate of the following salaries, in cur-
rent money, for the ensuing year, to wit: The treasurer of the western shore, two thousand dol-
lars; the treasurer of the eastern shore, four hundred and fifty dollars; the auditor, eight hundred
dollars; the clerk of the council, eight hundred dollars; the clerk of the senate, one hundred