1806.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
LIX.

Not necessary
to advertise.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not hereafter be considered the duty of any supervisor
of Frederick county to advertise, previous to their working on the roads, as required by the twelfth
section of the original act.

Provisions
vested in the le-
vy court, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the provisions now vested in Frederick county court as relates
to private roads, be hereafter vested in the levy court of said county, and any person conceive
himself aggrieved in any way by the determination of said levy court, may appeal to the county
court, whose determination shall be final, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Court t to levy
money, &c.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of Frederick county are hereby authorised to levy
any sum of money, not exceeding one hundred and fifty pounds in any one year, for the erecting and
building of any new bridge in their county.
CHAP. LX.

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1807.
Preamble.

An ACT to lay out, open and clear, a certain road in Somerset county!

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of
Somerset county, that the public convenience will be greatly promoted by opening and laying
out a public road, beginning at the mouth of a lane of John Heath's, and running thence round the
plantation of a certain Sarah Polk and Whittington Polk, up to a divisional fence between the said
Sarah Polk and a certain Matthias Miles, thence with the said fence, on the said Sarah Polk's side
until it intersects the public road leading from Princess-Anne to Snow Hill; therefore,

Commissioners
appointed, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That George Handy, John Landreth an
Thomas Curtis, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and open a road, follow-
ing the direction aforesaid, not exceeding twenty feet in width.

Who shall as-
certain da-
mages, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall ascertain
and value what damages may be sustained by any person or persons through whose land the said road
shall pass, and the same, when so assessed, shall be paid, or secured to be paid, by the persons who
may apply to have the said road laid out, to the person or persons who may be entitled to receive
the same, before they proceed to -open the said road.

Their allow-
ance.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners aforesaid shall be and they are hereby entitled
to receive two dollars each for every day they shall respectively attend to the discharge of the duties
required by this act, to be paid by the petitioners praying for the opening of the aforesaid road.

CHAP. LXI.

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1807.

An additional supplement to an act, entitled, An act for erecting
buildings for the use of the poor in Queen-Anne's county, and
for other purposes.

Justices to le-
vy money, &c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of Queen
Anne's county be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to assess and levy, on the as
sessable property in said county, at the time of laying the next county levy, a sum of money, not
exceeding three thousand dollars, together with six per cent, for collecting the same, for the purpose
of electing buildings for the use and accommodation of the poor in said county.

To be paid to
the commis.
Lionels, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees of the poor for Queen-Anne's county, as commis-
sioners appointed in the original act to which this is a supplement, or a majority of them, shall be
and they are hereby authorised and empowered to demand and receive from the collector of said
county, all monies levied and assessed for their use in pursuance of this act, as soon as the same
shall become due by law, and in case the collector shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, the said
commissioners shall have the same remedy for recovering the same as is prescribed by the fifth sec-
tion of the said original act to which this is a supplement.

CHAP. LXII,

Passed 4th of
Jan. 1807.

A Further supplement to an act for the more effectual collection of
the county charges in Allegany county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS the mode prescribed by the act to which this is a supplement for advertising land
lying in Allegany county, whereon taxes are due, is expensive to the parties, without an equal
benefit; therefore,