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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1812,

Commissioners
appointed—
their duties.

2, AND BE IT ENACTED, That James Carroll,
Thomas Kell and Nathaniel Baker be, and they are
hereby appointed commissioners to view the said read,
when opened and extended as aforesaid; and should
they or a majority of them approve of the same, they
shall thereupon make out a plot of the said road as
opened and approved of, and return the same to the clerk
of Baltimore county court, to be recorded among the
land records of said county; and the said road shall
forever thereafter be deemed a public highway of Bal-
timore county, and be kept in repair as other public
roads in said county.

CHAPTER 191.

Passed Jan. 7,
1812.

An act to incorporate a Company to open the navi-
gation of Zachia Run,

Preamble.

"WHEREAS, it is represented to this General As«
sembly, that the opening of the Zachia Run in Charles
county from the tide water of the river Wicomico to
the head of the said run, would essentially conduce to
the wealth and improvement of the said county; and
a number of persons have petitioned to be Incorporat-
ed for the above purpose,

Books may be
opened to re-
ceive subscrip-
tions — stock-
holders incor-
porated, &e.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful to open
Books in Port Tobacco in Charles county, for receiv-
ing and entering subscriptions for the said undertak-
ing, under the management of Samuel Chapman, John
Campbell, Francis Diggs, Jesse Jemeson, Lawrence
Posey, Joseph Boarman (of Leonard) Smith Hawkins,
Francis Hawkins, Samuel Hawkins, William B.
Smoot, (of Charles) Joseph Simpson, and John B.
Morris, or a majority of them, on the first Monday of
May next, and as often thereafter as the said commis-
sioners may determine; and that the said stock-hold-
ers so as aforesaid subscribing, and their heirs and as-
signs, are hereby declared to be incorporated into a
company by the name of the Zachia Canal Company;
and as such may sue and be sued, and frame all such
by-laws as may be necessary, and to exercise and en-
joy all the rights, benefits and immunities with which
the said corporation may be vested by any future
General Assembly of Maryland.

Corporation
may propose a
scheme of a lot-
tery.

2. AND BE It ENACTED, That it shall and
may be lawful for the said corporation to propose a
scheme of a lottery, for raising such sum of money as
may be necessary to aid in the purposes aforesaid