1852.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 42.

disadvantages, if any,; and the damages so ascertained,
shall be levied and assessed as other county charges
in said counties are, and shall be paid by the counties
wherein such damages may be sustained, to the per-
sons thereto entitled.

Oath prescrib-

ed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said commis-
sioners, or a majority of them, before they proceed
to act, shall take an oath, or affirmation, as the case
may be, before some justice of the peace, that they
will, without favor, partiality, or prejudice, assess the
damages of said land, through which said road may
pass.

In force.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this act
shall take effect from and after its passage.

County com-
mssioners
may levy to
keep road in
good order.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the preceding
section shall not be so construed, as to prohibit the
county commissioners, after said road shall have been
laid out and opened, from levying such additional
sums, as may be requited, to place said road in good
travelling order.

CHAPTER 42.

Passed March
2, 1852

AN ACT relating to evidence of the Ordinances and
Resolutions of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore.

Printed vo-
lumes may be
read in evi-
dence.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That from and after the passage of this act,
which shall lake effect from the day of its passage,
the ordinances and resolutions of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, shall and may be read in evi-
dence from the printed volumes thereof, published by
authority of said corporation, in the same manner as
the public or private laws are now road in evidence
from the printed statute books.