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LAWS OF MARYLAND, Nov. SESS. 1812.

1812.

Passed Dec.
21, 1812.
Preamble.

CHAPTER 105.
An act to lay out and make public a road in Kent
county.
WHEREAS, Sundry respectable inhabitants of
Kent county have preferred a petition to this Gene-
ral Assembly, praying, for certain reasons therein
mentioned, that a road may be opened and laid out
in said county, and the prayer of the petitioners ap-
pearing reasonable: Therefore,

Commission-
ers — they may
survey and lay
off said road —
its width and
direction— a
plot to be re-
turned.

SEC 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That James Parker, Edward
Eubanks, Lewis Blackinston, Jesse Knock and
William Moffit be commissioners, and they or a ma-
jority of them are hereby authorised to survey and
lay off a road, (provided they after having viewed
and surveyed the grounds, and considered its utility
shall deem it expedient, ) not exceeding thirty feet
wide, in the most direct and practicable rout, begin-
ning at the road leading from the Head of Chester to
Smyrna, at any place the commissioners may agree
on, and to run from said beginning in as straight a di-
rection as the nature of the ground will admit of,
and with the smallest possible injury to the individu-
als over whose land the said road may pass, untill it
intersects the Forrest road, leading from Massy's
Cross Roads to Smyrna, at or near the pass way over
the Cyprus Branch on said road, and until it inter-
sects the Delaware line, so as the same shall not be
laid out through any orchard, garden, yard or mea-
dow of any person without the consent of the owner;
and when surveyed and laid out, to return a plot
thereof to the clerks office of said county, to be there
filed and recorded.

Overseers may
be appointed.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy
court of said county, when a plat of the road as afore-
said shall be returned by the commissioners aforesaid,
is hereby empowered at the next court thereafter, to
appoint an overseer or overseers, to clear and open
said road, and to levy such sum of money as shall be
considered reasonable for the purpose of clearing and
opening said road, and the said road when opened
and cleared, shall be deemed a public road, and shall

be kept in repair in the same manner as other public
roads in said county are.

Compensation
of commis-

sioners — how

to be paid.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the com-
missioners shall be entitled to. receive as a compensa-
tion, the sum of one dollar and fifty cents each, for
every day they shall attend for the discharge of the