1806.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
LXIII.

vey, agreeably to the plot and certificate presented with the said memorial; that is to say, begin-
ning at a stone planted in the ground, and marked with the figure 1, for the first boundary of the
said town, and thence running west eighteen perches and half a perch, and thence running south, two
degrees east, one hundred and thirty-three perches, to the intersection of a line drawn south, eigh-
ty-eight degrees and forty-five minutes west, from the fifth boundary of the said town, and then,
running with the said line reversed, north, eighty-eight degrees and forty-five minutes east, to the
said fifth boundary, and thence running with the outlines of the said town to the sixth, seventh,
eighth and ninth boundaries thereof, and from thence running with the home line of the said town
to the said beginning stone; and the said commissioners shall also cause the said survey to be di-
vided and laid out into lots, streets and alleys, as directed by the said Robins Chamberlaine, where
he caused the same to be surveyed, and the said lots, streets and alleys, to be marked, distinguish
ed and known, by proper stones and boundaries, and by proper numbers and names.

And appoint a
surveyor, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners, or the major part of them, shall ap-
point a skilful surveyor to make the said survey, and to divide and lay out the said lots, streets and
alleys, and shall allow and pay him his reasonable account for his services in the execution of the
act.

Who shall
make the sur-
vey, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said surveyor shall make the said survey, and divide and lay
out the said lots, streets and alleys, under the direction of the said commissioners, and shall make
a fair and distinct plot of the said survey, and of the said lots, streets and alleys, and a plain cer-
tificate of the whole, and of every subdivision thereof, in a well bound book, and shall return the
same to the said commissioners, who shall thereupon examine, certify, and subscribe the same, and
cause the same to be delivered to the clerk of Talbot county, to be safely kept in his office, and the
said book shall from thenceforth be deemed, considered and held, as a land record book, containing
an authentic record of the said survey, and of the several lots, streets and alleys, into which the
same shall be divided and laid out as aforesaid.

To be deemed
a part of the
town, &c.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That immediately after the said parcel of land shall be so surveyed
laid out and bounded, the. same shall be deemed, reputed, considered and taken, as part of the said
town of Easton, to every intent and purpose, and in like manner as if the same had been originally
included within the limits thereof when the said town was erected; and the owners and inhabitants
of the said parcel of land shall have and enjoy all and singular the. same rights, immunities and pri-
vileges, which are held and enjoyed by the owners and inhabitants of. the said town, under and by
virtue of the several laws for regulating and improving the same; and the said parcel of land, and
the owners and inhabitants thereof, shall be and they are hereby placed under the jurisdiction and
government of the commissioners of the said town, and shall be subject to, and bound by, the se-
veral regulations, laws and ordinances, of the said commissioners, in the same manner, and to the
like intent and purpose, as the said town, and the owners and inhabitants thereof, in so much that
the owners and inhabitants of the said parcel of land are, by virtue of this act, associated with the
owners and inhabitants of the said town, and incorporated together, to every intent and purpose,
as if the said parcel of land had been included within the limits of the said town at the several pe-
riods when laws have been passed for regulating and improving the same.

Streets, &c to
be subject to
the jurisdiction
of the commis-
sioners, &c.

VI, AND BE IT ENACTED, That the streets and alleys to be so laid out in the said parcel of
land, as well as the streets, lanes and alleys, of the said town, shall be subject to the jurisdiction
of the said commissioners, and shall be cleared, repaired and improved, in such manner as is alrea-
dy, or shall hereafter, be provided by their ordinances and regulations; and the supervisor or super-
intendent whom they have employed, or shall hereafter employ, shall be compellable to clear, re-
pair and improve, the said streets and alleys, to be so laid out in the said parcel of land, as well as
the streets, lanes and alleys, of the town, under such reasonable penalties as the said commission-
ers shall think proper to impose; and the justices of the levy court, in the execution of the law re-
lating to the public roads in Talbot county, shall have or exercise no jurisdiction or control over
any of the streets, lanes or alleys, of the said town.

Who may
cause the in-
habitants to be
enrolled, &c.

VII. AND, whereas it is also represented by the said memorial, that the peace and security of the
said town would be better promoted, and certain inconveniencies more fully remedied, by enlarging
the powers of the said commissioners; BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners shall have pow-
er and authority, from time to time, to cause to be enrolled the white male inhabitants of the said
town above the age of eighteen years, and to arrange them into convenient companies or classes
and to require their services in fair and equal rotation, whenever a majority of the voters of the
said town, on being duly notified and assembled, shall determine that there exists an occasion for