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LAWS OF MARYLAND, Nov. SESS. 1812.

1812.

Passed Dec.
19, 1812.

CHAPTER 92.
A supplement to an act entitled "An act to lay out
and open a road from the town of Westminster in
Frederick county, to the city of Washington and

George-Town, passed at November session eigh-
teen hundred and three.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, It is represented to this General
Assembly by the petition of sundry inhabitants of
Montgomery county, that in pursuance of the act to
which ibis is a supplement, the commissioners did
locate a road from the town of Westminster in Fred-
crick county, to the city of Washington and George-
Town, but for the want of fends the said road has
been but partially opened, that the said partial open-
ing beginning where the said road crosses the Balti-
more road, passing through Unity in Montgomery
county, and intersecting the road leading to George-
Town at. or near the house where John Thomas, (3rd)
now resides, and the 'dam-ages paid by voluntary
contribution, but in as much as the road has not been
opened throughout it could not be considered a public
highway, and consequently has not been repaired as
such: Therefore,

Commission-
ers on the part
of Montgome-
ry county
shall return a
plot.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
: Maryland, That the commissioners appointed on the
part of Montgomery county, by the aforesaid act of
eighteen hundred and three, return a plot of the road
as opened from the Baltimore road aforesaid, through
Brookville to the intersection of the road leading to
George-Town, at or near the house where John
Thomas, (3rd) now resides, and that the same may
hereafter be considered a public highway, and kept
in repair in the same manner as other public roads in
Montgomery county are directed to be kept.

CHAPTER 94.

Passed Dec.
19, 1812.
Preamble.

An act for the relief of Robert Bruff.
WHEREAS, It is represented to this General
Assembly by the petition of Robert Bruff of the
State of Delaware, that he removed from Talbot
county in this State to the State of Delaware two
years since, and. that he lately visited his friends in
said county, and soon thereafter was arrested for
debts contracted there, and praying a special act of
insolvancy may pass in his favor, and this General
Assembly believing the facts therein stated to be
true; Therefore,