ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR

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or orchard, without the consent of the owner or own-
ers thereof.

1811.

CHAPTER 68.

An act to lay out and open a Road in Prince
George's and Anne-Arundel counties.

Passed Dec. 27,
1811.

WHEREAS, Sundry inhabitants of Prince George's
and Anne-Arundel counties have set forth by their
petition to this General Assembly, that a road lead-
ing from the forked road in Edward Hall's field, to
Benjamin Boyd's mill, in Prince George's county,
would be of considerable public utility: Therefore,

Preamble.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland., That George Tyler, Leonard Sellman and
John Hall be, and are hereby appointed commission-
ers; and they, or a majority of them are hereby author-
ised and directed to survey, lay out and open (at the
expense of the petitioners or any other person or per-
sons who may think proper to contribute thereto) a
road from the forked roads in Edward Hall's field, to
Benjamin Boyd's mill, in Prince George's county,
and from thence to intersect the road leading from
the city of Annapolis to the city of Washington, at
such place as they may deem eligible; and the said
commissioners, or a majority of them, shall return a
plot and certificate of their proceedings when such
road is laid out, surveyed and opened, to the levy
courts of Anne-Arundel and Prince George's coun-
ties, to be there recorded; and the said road, (when
opened and cleared as aforesaid, and the valuation
here-in-after directed to be made shall have been,
paid, or secured to be paid, ) shall forever after be
deemed a public highway, and kept in repair as other
public roads in said counties.

Commissioners
to lay out said
road at the ex-
pense of peti-
tioner or con-
tributors. Its
direction.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commission-
ers aforesaid, or a majority of them, shall ascertain
and value (if required) what damages maybe sustained
by any person or persons over whose land the said
road may pass, and the valuation shall be made, and
the amount thereof paid as aforesaid, to the parties
respectively interested, before the said commissioners
or a majority of them shall proceed to open the said
road; Provided nevertheless, That said road shall
not be carried or conducted through any yard, garden
or orchard, against the consent of the owner or own-
ers,

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Commissioners
to value dama-
ges.