LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1844.

and acknowledge the said deed before them on the said
thirteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-
two, and that the said George Hoblitzell was at the time
of the said acknowledgment, personally known to them to
he and professing to be the party grantor named in the
body of said deed—Therefore,

CHAP. 120.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the aforesaid deed from the said George Hoblitzell
to the said Thomas J. McKaig and William W. McKaig,
dated on the thirteenth day of September, in the year eigh-
teen hundred and forty two, and duly recorded in Liber A.
B., No 66, Folios 625, 626, 627, 638, 629 and 630, one of
the land records of Allegany county, shall be and the same
is hereby made good and valid in law, to all intents and
purposes, as if the justices of the peace, who took the ac-
knowledgment of the said deed, had therein certified, that
they were satisfied, that they said George Hoblitzell, the
grantor, was and professed to be the party grantor in said
Heed named, in the manner required by law, any law to the
contrary notwithstanding.

Made good
and valid.

CHAPTER 120.

A supplement to an act entitled an act to declare and ascer-
tain the right of citizens of this State to Private Roads or
Ways, so Jar as regards Baltimore County.

Passed Feb.
21, 1845.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the commissioners appointed pursuant to
the act to which this a supplement, passed at the session of
eighteen hundred and thirty-four, chapter two hundred and
fifty-three, be and they are hereby authorised to decide
and report whether in their opinion the lands of the person
or persons to be passed over by the proposed road or way,
require for their security the setting up of fences or gates;
and if so, they are required to ascertain and report to the
commissioners of the county the cost or damages which
such fences or gates will occasion to the party owning the
lands aforesaid; and the commissioners of the county shall
take such cost or damages into their consideration in pass-
ing on such report.

Commission-
ers authorised
to report dam-
ages to fences,
&c.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the setting up of a
gate or gates across a private road or way, and as contem-
plated by the provisions of this act shall not be deemed an
obstruction thereof, and that the powers conferred on and
the duties required of the commissioners appointed to lay

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Not deemed
an obstruction.