1806.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1807.

CHAP. L.

An ACT to alter the time of holding the county court In Worces-
ter county.

When court is
to be held, &c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That for the future the county court for
Worcester county shall be held on the second Mondays in May and November, yearly, and that
all actions, pleas, process and proceedings, which are now depending and undetermined in the said
county court, or returnable to the fourth Monday in May next, shall be returned, judged and taken
to be, in the same situation, state and condition, on the second Monday in May next as they would
be on the fourth Monday in May next, and the judges of the said county court shall, on the second
Monday in May next, proceed to the hearing and determining of all actions, pleas and proceeding,
respectively, as the case may require, as fully and effectually, to all intents, constructions and pur-

poses whatsoever, as the said judges of the said county court could or might lawfully do on the
fourth Monday in May next, any law, usage or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAP. LL

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1807.
Preamble.

An ACT to lay out and make public an old road in Harford county.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants
of Harford county, that the old road leading from near James Rigbie's, through the lands
of the said Rigbie, William Hitchcock, Robert Amos, junior, John Barton Biddle and James Cur-
ry, to the road leading from Samuel Marshall's to the Brick Meeting-house, has been found to be
convenient and useful to the public, and praying that the same may be made a public road, and that
commissioners be appointed to survey and streighten the said road, and the same being reasonable,
therefore,

Commissioners
appointed, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Thomas Hope, Josias Center and;
Aquila Miles, be and they, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised and empowered to lay
out, survey, mark and bound, the old road in said county beginning at the main road near James
Rigbie's, in the road leading from the Black House to the Upper Cross Roads, and running thence
through the lands of James Rigbie, William Hitchcock, Robert Amos, junior, John Barton Biddle
and James Curry, to intersect the main road leading from Samuel Marshall's to the Brick Meeting-
house, near James Curry's lane, and to streighten the same, if in their judgment they should deem
it necessary; provided, that the said road shall not be laid out through the lands of any indivi-
duals, without his, her or their consent in writing first had and obtained; and a plot of said load,
when surveyed and laid out, together with a certificate of the courses of the same, shall be re-
turned by the said commissioners aforesaid to the clerk of said county, to be by him recorded.

Money to be
levied, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when a plot of said road shall be returned and recorded as
aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the levy court of said county to levy, upon the assessable
property in said county, a sura of money, such as they shall deem necessary under all circumstances,
and to appoint an overseer to open and clear said road agreeably to the plot and certificate afore-
said, who shall give bond in like manner as other overseers of public roads are directed to give
bond, and shall have the same allowances; and the said road, when opened and cleared as aforesaid,
shall be deemed, and the same is hereby declared to be thereafter, a public road, and shall be kept
in repair as other public roads in said county.

Commissioners
allowance,

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners respectively herein before named shall be en
tilled to receive two dollars for every day they shall severally attend to discharge the duties re
quired by this act, which is hereby directed to be levied, collected and paid, as other county charges
are levied, collected and paid.

CHAP. LII.

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1807.
Several acts
continued.

An ACT to continue certain acts of assembly.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all and every act or acts of assemble
which are limitted by law to continue to the end of the present session of assembly, or which
would expire during the same, or before the end of the next general assembly, be and they are here-
by severally continued until the thirty-first day of October next, and until the end of the next ses
sion of assembly thereafter, unless such as are repugnant to, or inconsistent with, any law which
may have passed during the present session of assembly, and subject to any alterations which have
been made therein,