ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER,

1806.

CHAP. LXXIII.

An additional supplement to an act, entitled, An act to streighten
part of the road in Harford county which leads from Underhill's
mill to the city of Baltimore.

Passed 4th of
Jan. 1807.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of
Harford county, that the road, as laid out by William Welch, Benjamin Quinlin and Benja-
min Rigdon, under an act of assembly passed at November session, eighteen hundred and five, be-
ginning at or near the place known by the name of The Sandy Bottom, near Coop-town, and run-
ning thence five or six miles towards Baltimore county until it intersects the Rock Ford, on the
Little Falls of Gunpowder, would be useful to the public; and the people being satisfied therewith,
and praying that the same may be confirmed and established as a public road for the distance afore-
said, and the same appearing reasonable, therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the levy court
Harford county, at the time of their next annual meeting, to appoint an overseer or overseers to
ear and open said load, according to the plot and return made by the commissioners aforesaid, and
levy a sum of money, as, in the discretion of said court, shall be considered reasonable, for the
purpose of opening and clearing said road as aforesaid, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars;
and the said road, when cleared and opened as aforesaid, shall be deemed a public road, and shall be
kept in repair as other public roads in said county are kept in repair.

Court to ap-
point an over-
seer, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the act to which this is a supplement as is contrary

inconsistent with this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.
CHAP. LXXIV.

Part of an act,
repealed.

An ACT to authorise the levy court of Montgomery county to assess
and levy a sum of money for the purpose therein mentioned.

Passed 4th of
Jan. 1807.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of Mont-
gomery county shall be and they are hereby directed and empowered, at their next levy court,
assess and levy, on the assessable property of Montgomery county, a sum, not exceeding twenty
pounds current money, to be applied, when collected, to the payment of Leonard Watkins, for ad-
vances made by him for the year seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, to Mary Higdon, for herself
and daughter, under an act of assembly passed November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-
nine; provided it shall be made appear to the said levy court, what advances, and to what amount,
have been made by the said Leonard Watkins to and for the use of the said Mary Higdon and her
daughter, for the year seventeen hundred and ninety-nine.
CHAP. LXXV.

Justices to levy
money, &c.

An ACT to lay out and make public a road in Charles county.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of
Charles county, that they labour under many inconveniencies for the want of a public road,
leading from the post road across by Basil Spalding's and Sarah Coomes's, leaving the post-road op-
posite Joseph Green's, and passing through the land of Henry M'Pherson, to intersect the road

leading from Port-Tobacco by Charles Coomes's and Troy to Piscataway, then to cross the said
road, on the line between the lands of Charles Coomes and George II. Spalding, then to pass through
the land of the late Walter Smith, now the property of James R. Green, and thence through the
land of Henry Green, senior, and praying that commissioners may be appointed to lay out the same;
and the prayer thereof appearing reasonable, therefore,

Passed 4th of
Jan. 1807.
Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That William M'Pherson, Joseph Green
and William P. Ford, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority of
them, are hereby authorised and empowered to review the private road, now leading from the post-
road across by Basil Spalding's and Sarah Coomes's, leaving the post-road opposite Joseph Green's,
and passing through the land of Henry M'Pherson, so as to intersect the road leading from Port-
Tobacco by Charles Coomes's and Troy to Piscataway, then to cross the said road on the line be-
tween the lands of Charles Coomes and George H. Spalding, then to pass through the land of the
late Walter Smilh, now the property of James R. Green, and thence through the land of Henry
Green, senior, to lay out, survey, mark and bound the same, not exceeding twenty feet in width,
and to make a plot of said road, when so laid out, surveyed, marked and bounded, and return such
F

Commissioners
appointed, &c.