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1812.
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and the said valuation shall be paid or secured to be
paid before the commissioners snail proceed to open,
and clear the same; and the said road when so laid
out and completed, shall be recorded among the re-
cords of Washington county court, and be thereafter
deemed and taken to be a public road, and shall be
kept in repair as other public roads in said county are.
CHAPTER 173.
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Passed Jan. 4,
1812.
Levy court may
appoint com-
missioners to
lay out said
road if applied
to— they are
vested with cer-
tain authorities.
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An act to lay out a road in Harford county.
BE IT E. N ACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland; That it shall and may be lawful for the
levy court of Harford county (in case an application to
them shall be made by a number of respectable inhab-
itants of said county, for laying out a road from the En-
terprise Furnace in said county, towards the Pennsyl-
vania line, in such direction as the petitioners shall ap-
ply for; and from the said furnace towards Dublin, so
as to intersect the road leading from Ashmore's mill
lo Dublin, at or near the farm of Edward Prigg, Esq. )
to appoint three commissioners to lay out such road;
and the said commissioners, or a majority of them,
shall be vested with all and singular the powers giv-
en to the commissioners by an act entitled, An act to
straighten and amend the public roads in Harford
county and for other purposes, passed the thirtieth
day of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-one,
chapter seventy, and shall in every respect be go-
verned by said act; and any person or persons think-
ing themselves aggrieved by the allowance made him,
her or them by the said commissioners, for damages
for the said road passing over or through their lands,
shall have the same remedy for redress as pointed out
by said act.
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Road being laid
out, levy court
may levy ex-
penses. Com-
pensation of the
commissioners.
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AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case any such
road shall be laid out, and a plot thereof returned to the
clerk of said county, the levy court of said county
shall levy such sum or sums of money as they in their
judgment shall deem necessary for opening and mak-
ing the same conveniently passable, and also to pay
such damages as shall be allowed to the land holders
over whose land the said road shall be laid; and the
said commissioners shall be allowed, each, one dollar
and fifty cents per day for performing the duties re-
quired of them by this act.
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