PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

CHAPTER 404.

CHAP. 495.

An act to establish a Public Road, in Prince George's

County.

Passed March
9, 1850.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That George A. Digges, Robert Clarice, and Israel M.
Jackson, of Prince George's county, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish
a road, not exceeding thirty feet in width, commencing
for the same at the Montgomery county line, near the
farm of John Davis, and running thence with the road
now used to the Sligo mills, and from said mills with
the road now running through the lands of Israel M.
Jackson, to the line of the District of Columbia, and
when said road is thus laid out and established, and ac-
cepted by the levy court of said county, if in their
opinion the making of said road a public road will be a
public convenience, and if the said road is made a
public road free from all expense to said county, it shall
be considered and esteemed, and shall thereafter be put
upon the same footing with other public roads in said
county.

CHAPTER 405.

Commissioners
to lay out road.

An act to authorise Joseph W. Patterson, guardian of
certain minors, to erect improvements on their pro-
perty, at their expense.

Passed
March 9, 1850.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Joseph W. Patterson, of the city of Baltimore,

guardian to Joseph W. P. Nicols, James Nicols, and
Noel Nicols, of said city, minors, be and he is hereby
authorised to cause to be erected a back building to
the dwelling house, late the residence of their father,
Charles Nicols, now deceased, situate on the south
side of Lexington street, between Charles and Saint
Paul's streets, in the said city, and that the said Joseph
W. Patterson shall be allowed out of the income of
the said minors, and not otherwise, the actual cost of
the said back building, not exceeding the stun of two
thousand five hundred dollars, in the settlement of
his accounts as such guardian, before the Orphans

Guardian may
improve.

court for Baltimore county; provided, he shall furnish

Proviso.