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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1811.

assessed sum of
money for their
maintenance.

cester county shall be, and they are hereby direct-
ed and empowered, at their levy court annually, so
long as they shall see cause, to assess and levy on the
assessable property of said county, a sum of money
not exceeding forty dollars, nor less than twenty dol-
lars, for the support and maintenance of Wealthy
Beachbord of said county, and her infant children;
and that the same be collected annually by the collec-
tor of said county, and paid to such person or persons
as the levy court of said county shall or may direct

CHAPTER 110.

Passed Dec, 27,
1811.

An act to lay out and open a road from Harrison
Haddaway's land, to the main road leading from
Easton to Knapp's narrows, in Talbot county.

Commissioners
appointed to
lay out said
road at the ex-
pense of peti-
tioners A plot
to be recorded.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That William Sears, John Kemp, and
Francis Wrightson, or a majority of them, are hereby
appointed commissioners to lay off a road from the
plantation of Harrison Haddaway, not exceeding
twenty feet wide, in the direction they may think
mo sir convenient and advisable, to the main road
leading from Easton to Knapp's narrows; Provided,
That the same shall not be laid out to run over any
orchard, garden, yard or meadow, without the con-
sent of the owner thereof; and when said road is laid
off and cleared, cause way ed and made in every respect
fit for a public road, at the expense of the petitioners
who are interested in the same, and the said commis-
sioners shall make out and return a plot of the same to
the clerk of Talbot county court, to be recorded
among the records of said county, the said road shall
forever thereafter be deemed a public highway, and be
kept in repair as other roads may be in said county.

Commissioners
shall value
damages,

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commis-
sioners, or a majority of them, shall ascertain and
value the damages that may be sustained by any per-
son or persons whose lands the said road shall pass
through, taking into consideration the advantages and
disadvantages, if any; and the same when so assess-
ed shall be paid or secured to be paid by the person or
persons who may apply to have the said road laid out,
to the person or persons who may be entitled to the
same, before he or they shall proceed to open the said
road.