ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR

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ney not exceeding thirty dollars, nor less than twenty
dollars, for the support and maintenance of Levin Ca-
rey, of said county, and that the same be collected
annually, by the collector of said county, and paid to
such person or persons as the levy court of said county
shall or may direct.

1811.

CHAPTER 105.

An act to pay the Civil List, and other expenses of
civil government.

Passed Dec. 27,
1811.

WHEREAS, Those who dedicate 'their time,
abilities and labour to the public, ought to receive a
reasonable and adequate compensation for their ser-
vices:

Preamble.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the following officers of civil govern-
ment, for the time being, shall be entitled to receive
at the rate of the following salaries, in current money,
for the ensuing year, to wit: The treasurer of the
Western, Shore, two thousand dollars; the treasurer
of the Eastern Shore four hundred and fifty dollars;
the auditor, eight hundred dollars; the clerk of the
council, eight hundred dollars; the clerk of the senate,
one hundred and fifty dollars; the clerk of the house
of delegates, three hundred dollars; the printer to the
state, twelve hundred dollars, and the messenger to
the council, two hundred and fifty dollars.

Officers salaries.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That all monies which
shall remain in the treasury after discharging the
journal of accounts; and all unappropriated money
which may come into the treasury, be first applied to
the payment of the civil list for the ensuing year.

CHAPTER 106.

Payment of the
civil list,

An act to lay out and open a Road in Worces-
ter county.

Passed Dec. 27,
1811.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That George Hayward, Benjamin Purnell,
Samuel Porter, Wheatly Dennis and Charles Ben-
nett, junior, be, and they are hereby appointed com-
missioners to lay out, survey, mark and bound a pub-
lic road in Worcester county, not exceeding thirty
feet wide, beginning at or near the plantation of Wil-
liam Townsend, upon the road leading from Snow
Hill to Lawes' mill; thence running and passing by

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Commissioners.
They shall open
said road. Its
width, direc-
tion, &c.