1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 324.

or execution, nor be liable to be sold for the debts of
any deceased person, who may have owned such lot
during his lifetime.

Ownership re-
gulated.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That a certificate, under
seal of said corporation, of the ownership of any lot
aforesaid, shall, in all respects, have the same effect
as any conveyance of such lot would have, if exe-
cuted, acknowledged, and recorded as conveyances of
real estate are required to be by the laws of the State
of Maryland.

CHAPTER 324.

Passed
Feb. 27, 1850.

An act authorising Commissioners to establish a Public
Road in the Second District of Cecil county.

Commissioners
to locate public
road.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Lambert D. Nowland, George W.
Bennett, and Benjamin F. Sluyter, of the second
election district in Cecil county, be and they are here-
by appointed commissioners, and they, or any two of
them, shall have power to enter upon, survey, lay off,
and locate a road from some convenient and proper
point on the main road in said district, known and
designated as the Poplar Stump Road, through the
lands of Richard H. Bayard, Richard Biddle, Ann
Oldham, and the late Richard Hudson, so as to inter-
sect the main road leading from Bohemia Church to
the Bohemia Ferry, at or near Hudson's Corner, in
said district, and in locating said road, they shall, in
their discretion, take the most practicable route, said
road not to exceed thirty feet in width.

Damages, etc.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said commis-
sioners, or any two of them, shall have power to value
and condemn the lands over which they may locate
said road, and to cause the same to be surveyed, and
a plat thereof, and the valuation and condemnation of
the lands, as aforesaid, and the expenses attending the
execution of this act, to be returned to the commis-
sioners of Cecil county, to be recorded among the re-
cords of the said commissioner's court, and if the
landholders through which this road may pass, shall
not he satisfied with the damages assessed by the
commissioners appointed by this act, they shall have
power to have the same assessed, as provided by the