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LAWS OF MARYLAND,

1811.

or through the lands of Thomas Cottingham and Ra-
chel Coulbourn, until it intersects the road leading to
Salisbury, in such direction as the nature of the
ground and the convenience of the landholders over
which the same may run, will admit.

Commissioners
shall ascertain
damages.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commis-
sioners, or a majority of them, shall ascertain the
damages which any person or persons may sustain by
reason of the same road being laid out through his, her
or their lands, which shall be first paid, or secured to
be paid by the persons interested in opening said road,
before the said road shall be opened.

Commissioners
shall return a
plot to clerk of
county court to
be recorded. It
shall be deem-
ed public under
a certain provi-
sion.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said com-
missioners, or a majority of them, are hereby direct-
ed to return a plot of the said road when surveyed,
marked and laid out as aforesaid, to the clerk of the
county 'court, to be by him recorded; which road,
when laid out, cleared and made passable, shall be
deemed and taken as a public road forever thereafter;
and shall be kept up and repaired as all other public
roads in said county are; Provided, That nothing
herein contained shall in any manner authorise the
said commissioners to lay out and open the said road
through the buildings, garden, orchard, yard or mea-
dow of any person or persons, without his, her or their
consent.

Persons inter-
ested shall pay
expenses of sur-
veying, &c.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the persons in-
terested in opening the said road, shall pay to the
commissioners the reasonable expenses for survey-
ing and laying out the said road, and making out and
returning the said plot.

A discretionary
power.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commis-
sioners, or a majority of them, if they should be of
opinion that the convenience of the people of the
neighborhood would be better advanced thereby, shall
be, and are hereby empowered to commence the said
road at any other place upon the said road leading
from the plantation of said William Townsend to
Lawes' mill aforesaid, and lay out the same in any
other direction than that before described, until it
Intersects the road aforesaid, leading to Salisbury.

CHAPTER 107.

Passed Dec. 27,
1811.

An act for the benefit of the heirs of James Cain,
late of Harford county, deceased.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, It hath been represented to this Ge-
neral Assembly by the petition of John Cain and