1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 158.

Make oath or
affirmation.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said commission-
ers, before they proceed to act, shall take an oath or af-
firmation, before some justice of the peace, that they will
without favor, partiality or prejudice, assess the damages
sustained by the persons through whose lands the said
road may pass.

Superintend-
ing road.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That after the said road
shall be surveyed and located, the opening thereof shall
be superintended in each county respectively, by the
commissioners, or a majority of them so appointed.

CHAPTER 157.

Passed Feb.
14, 1846.

Time exten-
ded.

An act to allow Selman Cox, late collector of Baltimore
County, further time to complete his collections.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the time limited by law within which Selman Cox,
late collector of Baltimore county, should have made his
collections he, and the same is hereby extended to the
first day of April, eighteen hundred and forty seven; pro-

Proviso.

vided, that the said Cox shall comply with the provi-
sions of the first section of the act passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and forty three, chapter ninety-
six.

CHAPTER 168.

Passed Feb.
16, 1846.

Preamble.

An act to alter and change the line between School Dis-
tricts Number Four and Seven, in the Upper Election
District in Caroline County.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this General As-
sembly, that by the remoteness of Jeremiah Rust's resi-
dence from the school house in school district number
seven in Caroline county, within the lines of which
school district, his farm and premises are embraced, is
such as to deprive him of the benefit of said school,
whilst at the same time his residence is within one mile
of the school house at Greensborough, in school district
number four — therefore,