E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

thereof, together with the valuation of the damages, if
any, to the landholders as aforesaid, and the expense
attending the execution of this act, to be returned to
the commissioners of Howard county, and any persons
considering themselves aggrieved by the proceeding,
and return to the said commissioners, may object to the
ratification thereof before the said board of commis-
sioners, and when ratified and confirmed by the said
commissioners, and not until then, it shall be filed and
recorded among the public records of the county.

CHAP. 273.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said board of

commissioners shall, after ratification, levy a sum of
money not exceeding four hundred dollars, to defray
the expenses of locating and opening said road, and
when said road shall be located as aforesaid, it shall be
deemed and taken as a public road, and kept in repair
at the expense of the county.

Public road.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the commission-
ers shall take an oath that they will faithfully execute
the provisions of this act, without partiality or preju-
dice, and shall give at least ten days notice to the pro-
prietors of the lands over which said road may pass, by
advertisement set up in the neighborhood, before they
proceed to act.

CHAPTER 273.

Oath.

AN ACT for the relief of the Devisees of Doctor
John Stevenson, late of Worcester county, deceased,

and those claiming by, from or under them, and to
make valid the report of John U. Dennis and others,
Commissioners, to divide the real estate of said de-
ceased.

Passed May
26, 1852.

WHEREAS, It has been represented to the General
Assembly of Maryland, by the petition of John W.
Lambden and Sarah, his wife, Elizabeth K. Horsey
and Elizabeth Stevenson, that upon the petition of
Ebenezer Hearn and Peggy, his wife, to Worcester
county court, a commission issued out of said court, to
John U. Dennis and others, as commissioners, autho-
rising them, or a majority of them, to divide the real
estate of Doctor John Stevenson, late of said county,
deceased, according to the last will and testament of
said deceased, between his widow and three daughters,

Preamble.