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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1811.

maintenance.

court, annually, so long as they shall see cause, to as.
sess and levy on the assessable property of said coun-
ty, a sum of money not exceeding forty dollars, for,
the support and maintenance of the said Willmore
and his wife; and that the same be collected annually,
by the collector of Anne-Arundel county, and by him
paid to the said Willmore and his wife, or their order.

CHAPTER 35.

Passed Dec. 27,
1811.

An act to authorise the Levy Court of Washington
county, to appoint commissioners to lay off a
road therein mentioned.

Levy court to
appoint com-
missioners to
lay off said road.
Its width, direc-
tion, &c,

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the levy court of Washington coun-
ty be, and they are hereby authorised and directed to
appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be,
to view and lay off a road not exceeding thirty feet in;
width, to begin at a point on the main road leading from,
Hager's-town to Sharpsburgh, where the road leading,
from Ringgold's manor, to Clagett's mill, on An-
tietam creek, crosses the said main road, and proceed-
ing by the mill of John Sharer, on said creek, to inter-
sect the main road leading to Baltimore, at or near the
plantation of Francis Breathed, so as the same shall
not be laid out over any orchard, garden, yard or
meadow cf any person without the consent of the
owners thereof: Provided, They, after viewing and
surveying the grounds, shall deem it expedient.

Expenses to be
levied.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of

said county, when a plot of the said road shall be re-
turned by the commissioners aforesaid, is hereby em-
powered, at the next court thereafter, to appoint an
overseer or overseers to clear and open said road, and
to levy such sum of money as shall be considered rea-
sonable, for the purpose of clearing and opening said
road; and the said road, when opened and cleared,
shall be deemed a public road, and shall be kept in re-
pair in the same manner as other public roads in said,
county are.

Commissioners'
add overseers'
compensation.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commission-
ers shall be entitled to receive as a compensation, the
sum of two dollars, for every day they shall attend
for the discharge of the duties required of them by this
act; and the said overseer or overseers shall receive
the same compensation which the overseers of public
roads respectively receive, which compensation shall