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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1811.

sembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of Cecil
county, that the road from the Presbyterian meeting,
house in West Nottingham, to Creswell's ferry, is very
circuitous, and almost impassable for loaded waggons,
and that the convenience of the public would be great-
ly promoted by laying out the same to run along, or
near where a private road now runs through the lands
of the Reverend James Magraw, Abner Coulson,
Amos Erving, Henry Broughton, Alexander Nesbitt,
Robert McMaster, George Kidd, John Patterson,
Samuel Gay, jun. and Thomas Patton, until it inter-
sects the public road leading from the Erick meeting-
house to Creswell's ferry, below the said Samuel
Gay's: Therefore,

Levy court to
appoint com-
missioners.
Their duty.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the levy court of Cecil county are
hereby authorised and empowered to appoint three
commissioners to view said ground, and lay out a road
not exceeding thirty feet in width, along or near the
private road aforesaid,.

Commissioners
powers. Levy
court to appoint
supervisors,
Expenses to be
levied on the
county if the
road is deter-
mined to be of
public utility.

AND BE It ENACTED, That the commission-
ers aforesaid shall have the said road surveyed, and
shall have power to bargain and contract with any:
person or persons through whose land the said road
may pass, or to adjudge the damages any person may
sustain by the same, and make a return of all contracts
by them made for land or damages adjudged by them,
by reason of opening said road; and shall return the
same with a plot of said road, under their hands, to the
levy court aforesaid; and the said court may order
the same to be recorded, or reject the same or any part
thereof that they may think proper; and shall levy on
the assessable property of said county, the expense of
the commis-sioners for viewing and surveying said
road; and if the levy court shall confirm said road
agreeable to the return of the commissioners, and
cause the same to be recorded, the levy court shall
then appoint a supervisor or supervisors, to clear and
open said road, not exceeding, thirty feet in width, as
aforesaid; and may levy the expense of said road upon
the assessable property of Cecil county; or should
the levy court be of opinion that said road is not of
public utility, but is only calculated to serve private
individuals, in that case the levy court shall grant
said road on the application of petitioners, upon their
paying all damages and expenses of said road; and if
the levy court confirm said road, and have it recorded,
it shall then be under the same rules and regulations
as other roads are in Cecil county.