1844.

THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 104.

Right reserv-
ed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the Legislature re-
serves the privilege at all times to repeal, modify or
change this law.

CHAPTER 104.

Passed Feb.
19, 1845.

An act to layout and open a road through a part of Car-
roll and Baltimore Counties.

Commission-
ers appointed
to lay out and
open a road.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Henry Denies, Major Nicholas Dorsey,
of Carroll county, George Odell, William Chapman and
Josiah Penny, of Baltimore county, be and they are here-
by appointed commissioners, or a majority of them, to
survey, lay out and open a road not exceeding thirty feet
in width, in the best and straitest direction, taking all the
circumstances into consideration, to start in Baltimore
county, from the Marriottsville road, on the east side of
the Patapsco Falls, opposite Lewis H. Brown's time stone-
quarry, running along the east bank of the Patapsco Falls,
to a ford usually called Snowden's ford, being at or near,
the mouth of a run, formerly called Owen's run, but more,
generally known as Snowden's run, thence across the
Patapsco into Carroll county, and up the said run called
Snowden's run, to a run known as Stillhouse run, and
then up the said Stillhouse run, until it intersects the
landing road at or near the corner of Mrs. Davis' field

Authorised to
value dama-
ges.

toward Elias Brown's.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said commission-
ers are hereby authorised to value the damages, done to
the persons through whose land the said road may pass,
and the damages, so valued, if any, to be paid or secured
to be paid by the persons interested in said road, before
the said road can be opened and made.

Persons inter-
ested to pay
expenses.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said road shall be
located, opened and made passable, at the expense of those
who are interested, and after the said road is so opened
and a plat of that part of the road which is in Baltimore
county, and also, that which is in Carroll county, shall be
returned to the clerk of said county, in which these parts

Deemed a
public road.

are respectively located, to be recorded, and thereafter
the said road to be deemed, and taken as a public road,
and kept in repair as other public roads are in said coun-
ties.

Employ sur-
veyor.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said commission-