ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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damages sustained by the person or persons at whose
request, or for whose benefit such inquisition shall be
taken by reason of opening the aforesaid street through
his; her or their property, shall thereupon proceed to
assess and value the damages accordingly; of which
the said commissioners, or a majority of them shall
have had at least five days notice, and shall return the
damages so assessed, to the said justice of the peace,
and such inquisition and valuation shall be final and
conclusive; and the party or parties in whose favor
the valuation ascertained by the said commissioners,
or the damages ascertained by the said freeholders
shall be made, shall be entitled to receive the same
from the said commissioners, or a majority of them;
and the said commissioners shall pay, or cause to be
paid within the space of six months after the assess-
ment of such valuation or damages, and before they
shall proceed to affect the lands and tenements of the
person or persons concerned, and upon the payment
of the money, or securing the same to be paid to the
person or persons through whose property the said
street is intended to pass, the said commissioners may
open the said street through such person or persons'
property.

CHAPTER 187.

1812.

An act to confirm to Mary Wood, of Anne-Arun-
del county, certain property therein mentioned.

Passed Jan. 7,
1812.

WHEREAS, Mary Wood, of Anne-Arundel
county, by her petition to this General Assembly has
set forth, that in or about the year seventeen hundred
and ninety-six, she intermarried with a certain Rich-
ard Wood of said county, who, in a few months there-
after deserted her, after having disposed of the great-
est part of her property, which she had at the time of
her marriage, and that the said Richard Wood has not
been heard of since he left the state of Maryland, and
the brothers and heirs at law of the said Richard
Wood have threatened to deprive her of the balance
of the property, by which means the said Mary Wood
would be deprived of a support, being far advanced in
years and very infirm; and have prayed that a law
may pass, confirming to her the property now in her
possession; and the prayer of the petitioner appearing
reasonable: — Therefore,

Preamble.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the balance of the personal property

Property con-
firmed to her,