1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND,

CHAP. 416.

ments rendered by any justice of the peace in and for
Somerset county, when said judgments shall be for sums
of fifty dollars or upwards, shall he a lien on all lands
and real estate of the defendant, lying in said county,
to all intents and purposes, as much as if said judgment
had been rendered in the county court, from the time
when a short copy of such judgment shall have been
filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of said coun-
ty, and not before, from which record the said clerk
shall keep a separate record book, with an index stating
doubly the names of the plaintiff and defendant, and
the said clerk shall receive for filing, recording and in-
dexing every such copy of a judgment, the sum of
twenty-five cents, and no more, and it shall be lawful
for the said clerk, on the application of the plaintiff, to
issue execution thereon, directed to the sheriff, and re-
turnable before the county court, in the same manner as
if the said judgment hud been obtained in the said
county court, and shall receive his usual fees for such
service.

CHAPTER 416.

Passed

Mar 6, 1850.

An act entitled, an act to Incorporate the Smithsburg
and Beaver Creek Turnpike Road Company.

To make turn-
pike road.

SECTION I. An it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That a company be incorporated to make
a turnpike road from the point where the present coun-
ty road, leading from Waynsboro', Pennsylvania, in-
tersects the National turnpike road, near the town of
Boonsboro', Maryland, following and being the bed of
said road, as far as may be practicable, passing through
the village of Mount Pleasant, and thence through
Cavetown, thence through Water street, in Smithsburg,
thence through the town of Ridgeville, thence to the
Pennsylvania line, at the place where the county road
now enters said State.

Commissioners
to receive sub-
scriptions.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That for making said
road, subscription books for a capital stock of thirty thou-
sand dollars, in fifteen hundred shares, at twenty dollars
each, be opened in Smithsburg and Boonsboro', by or
under the direction of all or any of the following com-
missioners, namely: Jacob Martin, Henry Fishack, Jo-
seph Carver, Abraham Stouffer, of C., John Horine,