1806.

NOVEMBER; LAWS OF MARYLAND,

CHAP.

XCI.

which improvements shall be ascertained and determined by three disinterested persons chosen k
the parties, or by the bills and receipts of the workmen.

CHAP. XCII.

Passed 4th of
Jan 1807.

An ACT to provide for the making an alteration in the road there-
in mentioned.

Justices to ex-
amine the road,
&c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of Balti-
more county, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised to examine that part of the road
leading from Baltimore to Belle-Air which runs from Thomas Kell's house, in Baltimore county
northward, to the next turn or course of said road, as last run out by the commissioners appointed
for that purpose, and if, in the opinion of the said justices, or a majority of them, that part of said
road can be altered with little inconvenience to the public, they are hereby authorised to make a
alteration therein, so as to cause the said road to intersect the one first opened, and now in use
northward of the branch running near said Kell's house, and the said justices shall cause a plot of
the said alteration of said road to be made and filed with the original plot thereof, and the part of
said road, so to be laid out, shall be, when opened by the said Kell, a public highway, as other
parts of it are, and the former course of said road, which may be departed from in pursuance,
this act, shall not be considered or opened as a part of the said road.

CHAP. XCIII.

Passed 4th of
Jan 1807.

An ACT to prevent swine and geese from going at large in Frede-
rick-town, in Caecil county.

No Swine, &c.
to go at large,
&c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and after the first day of June
next, no swine or geese belonging to the inhabitants of Frederick-town, or to the inhabitants
of Caecil county living within one quarter of a mile of said town, shall be suffered to go and remain
at large in said town, or within one quarter of a mile of said town, in said county; and if any
swine or geese belonging to the inhabitants as aforesaid shall be found going and remaining at large
within the said town, or within one quarter of a mile of said town, in said county, it shall and
be lawful for any person or persons to impound the same, and if impounded, such person or persons

shall immediately give notice, by advertisements set up at the most public places in the said town
describing the swine or geese so impounded, and if the owner or owners shall not, within five days
after the setting up of said advertisements, prove his or her property therein, and make compensa-
tion for the injury, if any, which may have been sustained by any inhabitant of said town or county
to be ascertained by any two disinterested persons, inhabitants of said town, and shall not pay for
every such swine the sum of twenty-five cents for every day it shall have been impounded, and for
every such goose the sum of six and an half cents for every day it shall have been confined, it shall
and may be lawful for the person or persons, so impounding or confining as aforesaid, to sell, or kill
the same for his or her benefit.

General issue
pleadable, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person shall be sued for killing or selling any swine or
geese, so impounded or confined, in Frederick-town as aforesaid, such person may plead the general
issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence.

CHAP. XCIV.

Passed 4th of
Jan. 1807.

An ACT making compensation to the criers of the court of appeals
and the sheriffs attending the said courts for the preservation of or
der therein,

Compensation
to criers, &c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the criers appointed, or to be appoint-
ed, by the court of appeals, and the sheriffs who are or shall be appointed to attend the said
court for the preservation of order therein, shall be entitled to receive at the following rates for
their attendance on the said courts on the western and eastern shores respectively; that is to said
each of the said criers shall receive the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per day he shall attend
the said court, and each of the said sheriffs shall receive the sum of three dollars and fifty cents for
each day he shall attend the said court.

Judges to give
a certificate,
&c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the judges of the said court, or a majority of them, shall, at the
end of each of the sessions of the said courts, under their hands, give to the said criers and sheriffs
respectively a certificate, expressing the number of days the said criers and sheriffs have attended