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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1811.

CHAPTER 123.

Passed Dec. 27,
1811.

An act for the relief of Thomas Hawthorn, of the
city of Baltimore.

Benefits of in-
solvent laws

granted.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the judges, or any judge of Balti-
more county court be? and they, or any one of them
are hereby authorised and directed to extend to Tho-
mas Hawthorn, of the city of Baltimore, the benefit
of the act of assembly passed at November session
eighteen hundred and five, entitled, An act for the
relief of sundry insolvent debtors, and the several
supplements thereto, without requiring the said Tho-
mas Hawthorn to produce the assent in writing, of so
many of his creditors as have due to them two thirds,
in amount, of the debts due by him, as is prescribed
by the provisions of the said act and supplements.

CHAPTER 124.

Passed Dec. 27,
1811.

An act authorising the levy court of Prince
Georges county, to open a road in said county.

Levy court au-
thorised to ap-
point commis-
sioners to lay off
said road. Its
width, direc-
tion, &c.
Commissioners
shall ascertain
damages, their
powers, &c.
They shall re-
turn a plot to
levy court. Pow-
ers of the levy
court in certain
cases.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the levy court of Prince George's
county, if they or a majority of them should think that
a road beginning at the main road leading from Pis-
cataway to Nottingham, at or near Elizabeth Mitchel's;
thence across Piscataway Swamp on the west of Jo-
seph N. Burche's plantation, by Edward H. Calvert's
new mill; thence over the most advantageous ground
to the public road leading by Spalding's tavern to the
city of Washington, is ne-cessary or beneficial to the
inhabitants of said county, shall have power and au-
thority to appoint three commissioners to view said
ground, and lay off a road not exceeding thirty feet
wide, on the straightest direction the ground will ad-
mit of, and have the same surveyed, and plain plots
made of the same, and return said plots to the levy
court of the county aforesaid under their hands; and
said commissioners shall have full power to bargain
and contract with any person or persons over whose
lands the said road may pass, or adjudge the damage
any person or persons may sustain by the said road,
and make a return of all contracts by them made for
land, or damages adjudged by them, by reason of
opening said road, to the levy court, under, their hands;
and the said court may order the same to be recorded,