PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

Theodore Bossier, and made payable to Joshua M. Amos,
for the use of said T. Bassier.

CHAPTER 365.

CHAP. 365.

An act authorising Commissioners to lay off and locate

a Public Road from Marriottsville, in Howard
District, to the old Frederick Road.

Passed Feb. 27,
1850.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Samuel Brown, of John R., Rich-
ard Davis, and Isaac C. Anderson, of Howard district,
are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a ma-
jority of them, shall have full power and authority to
enter upon, survey, lay off and locale a road, beginning
at. the Patapsco falls, at Marriottsville, in said district,
and from thence, on the most practicable route, to inter-
sect the old Frederick road, at or near the place where
there was an old gate of George Howard, esquire, situ-
ated on said road.

Commissioners
to locate public
road.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said commis-
sioners, or a majority of them, shall have full power to
value and assess the damages sustained by the owners
of the lands over which they may locate said road, tak-
ing into consideration the advantages as well as the dis-
advantages that may result to said owners of hinds, and
to cause this same to be surveyed, and a plat thereof,
together with the valuation of the damage to the land-
holders as aforesaid, and also an estimate of the cost, of
constructing said road, and all other expenses attending
the execution of this act, and shall make return thereof to
the commissioners of Howard district, and any person or
persons conceiving themselves aggrieved by the proceed-
ings and return of the said commissioners, may object to
the ratification thereof, before the said board of commis-
sioners of Howard district, and when ratified and con-
firmed by the board of commissioners as aforesaid, and
not until then, it shall be filed and recorded among the
public records of Howard district.

Damages. etc.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said board of
commissioners shall after ratification, and at the time of
making the district levy, levy a sum of money sufficient
to defray all expenses of locating, opening and con-
structing said road, and to pay the owners of the lands
the damages sustained by them respectively, according to
the valuation made by the said commissioners, and af-

Expenses —
how paid.