E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

shall be, and is hereby authorised and empowered to
older the register of wills of said county, to record such
decision or other proceeding; which record, when
made, shall have the same effect and be as valid as if
the same had been made at the time such decision was
made or such proceeding had.

CHAPTER 171.

CHAP. 171.

AN ACT to provide for laying out into Avenues,
Streets, Lanes and Alleys, and Public Reservations,
the Western Liberties of Baltimore County.

Passed May
22, 1852.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

of Maryland, That John Wethered, Hugh Ely, John
Slack, John Berry, William E. Cole, William Turner
and Charles Shipley, be, and they ate hereby appoint-
ed commissioners, who shall cause to be laid out the
grounds lying contiguous to the western boundary of
the city of Baltimore, within the space of not less than
one mile, and not exceeding one and a half miles wide,
and of the length of the western boundary of said city,
into avenues, streets, lanes and alleys, and public re-
servations, in such manner as they shall deem useful,

Commission-
ers appointed.

convenient and ornamental; Provided, the avenues,
streets, lanes, alleys and public reservations thus to be
laid down in continuation of, and in conformity with
Poppleton's map of the city of Baltimore, and the space
aforesaid, shall be called the Western Liberties of Bal-
timore county; the aforesaid commissioners, a majori-
ty of whom shall be a quorum, shall fill all vacancies
happening in their board, as they occur; they may em-
ploy such engineer or surveyor as they may see fit, and
a secretary, and the expenses of their operations shall
be paid by a tax to be levied by the county commis-
sioners, upon the proprietor of the aforesaid grounds so
to be laid off.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid
commissioners shall return plats, with all needful ex-
planations, of the grounds laid out as aforesaid, to be
lodged in the offices of the clerk of the Circuit court
for Baltimore county, and of the commissioners of said
county.

Plats to be
returned.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That after the surveys
of avenues, streets, lanes, alleys and public reserva-

Plats and
other proceed-