1806.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND,

CHAP.
LXXV.

plot, under their hands and seals, to the clerk of Charles county, to be by him recorded among the
land records of the county; and the levy court of said county, at any meeting after the said p
shall have been recorded, are hereby authorised and empowered to appoint an overseer or overseers
to keep the said road in repair, and the said levy court are hereby further authorised and empowered
to levy and assess, upon the assessable property of said county, a sum of money in their opinion
sufficient to survey, open and clear, said road; and the said road, when surveyed, opened and clear
ed, shall be a public road, and shall thereafter be kept in repair as other public roads in said court
are kept in repair.

Their allow-
ance.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That trie commissioners aforesaid shall receive the sum of two dollars
each for every day they shall attend in discharge of the duties required of them by this act, and the
levy court are hereby empowered to assess and levy the same as other public charges are assessed
and levied.

Not to go
thro' any
house, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said road shall not run through the house, yard, garden, or
chard or meadow, of any person or persons, without the consent of such person or persons.

CHAP. LXXVI.

Passed 4th of
Jan. 1807.

An ACT annulling the marriage of James W. Dimmett and Ca-
tharine Dimmett.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Catharine Dimmett
that she intermarried with a certain James W. Dimmett about six years ago, and had issue
by him two daughters, now living; that the said Catharine and James her husband, lived on terms
incompatible with the happiness of the conjugal union, which every day, if possible, increased,
that your petitioner considers herself in hourly danger from his violence, as he not only attempted
his own life, by cutting his own throat in the most barbarous and shocking manner, but he has already
threatened repeatedly the life of your petitioner, thereby shewing himself free from every moral re-
straint, and prepared for the commission of the most desperate and bloody deeds; that he remains
in one continual state of intoxication, and freely indulges in every species of irregularity; that the
said Catharine Dimmett is entirely dependent upon her relations and friends for a support of her-
self and her infant daughters, and in consequence thereof she prays that a law may pass annulling
her marriage with the said James W. Dimmett; and the allegations in the said petition being prov-
to the satisfaction of this general assembly,

Marriage made
void, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the Genet al Assembly of Maryland, That the marriage of the said James
Dimmett and Catharine his wife, heretofore solemnized, be and the same is hereby declared to be
absolutely, and to all intents and purposes, null and void; and the said James W. Dimmett and Ca-
tharine his wife, are hereby declared to be divorced, a vinculo matrimonii; provided always, that no-
thing in this act shall be construed to illegitimate any issue of the said James W. Dimmett and Ca-
tharine Dimmett his wife, born prior to the passage of this act.

CHAP. LXXVII.

Passed 4th of
Jan. 1807.

An ACT annulling the marriage of Benjamin Ferguson and Ry
his wife, of Caecil county.

Marriage de-
clared void, &c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the marriage of the said Benjamin
Ferguson and Ruth his wife, heretofore solemnized, be and the same is hereby declared to be
absolutely, and to all purposes, null and void, and the said Benjamin Ferguson and Ruth his wife
are hereby declared to be divorced, a vinculo matrimonii, provided always, that nothing in this
contained shall be construed to illegitimate any issue of the said Benjamin Ferguson and Ruth
wife, born prior to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and four; provided nevertheless, that
this act shall have no force or effect whatever, unless, previous to the first day of March next,
said Benjamin Ferguson shall give bond, with good and sufficient security, to be approved of by
orphans court of Baltimore county, conditioned for the payment of the sum of thirty dollars per
num to the said Ruth, during her life, so long as the said Benjamin Ferguson may live.
CHAP. LXXVIII.

Passed 4th of
Jan. 1807.

An ACT to lay out and open a public road in the direction here-
after mentioned in Baltimore county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants
Baltimore county, that a road laid out from the angle of the Reister's-town turnpike road