LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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construed to illegitimate the children of the said Ro-
bert Offley, and Sarah his wife, born prior to the pas-
sage of this act.

CHAPITER 118.

1812.

An act for opening and extending Aisquith-street, m
the eastern precincts of Baltimore.

Passed Dec.
23, 1812.

SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the city commissioners
of Baltimore be, and they are hereby empowered to,
open and extend Aisquith-street in the eastern pre-
cincts of Baltimore, commencing at the south end of
the west line of said street, thence running to Pitt-
street, intersecting the same at right angles; thence
with Pitt street to the east line of Lloyd's lane;
thence with said line to the end of the east line of
Aisquith-street; and the said street when so opened
and extend, and, the valuation and assessment herein
after directed to be made shall have taken place, shall
be deemed and taken, and is hereby declared to be
a public street and highway forever thereafter, and
the1 said commissioners are hereby required to return
a plot, ascertaining the limits and extent of that part
of the street so opened and extended, to the register
of the city of Baltimore, who shall receive and file the
same as part of the plot of said city.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, that the sheriff of

City commis-
sioners may o-
pen and ex
tend said street
— its direction
— a plot to be
returned to ci-
ty register.

Baltimore county, after having given at least ten days
notice in one of the news-papers in the city of Balti-
more, shall at any time before the twentieth day of
May next, summon twelve free-holders, inhabitants
of the said city or precincts, not interested in the
premises, who being first sworn to assess and value
what damages shall be sustained by any person or
persons whomsoever by reason of the opening and
extending the said street, (taking all benefits and in-
conveniences into consideration, ) shall proceed to
assess and value what damages may be sustained by
any person or persons whomsoever by opening and
extending said street, and shall also declare what sum
or money each individual benefited thereby shall
respectively contribute and pay towards compensat-
ing the person or persons injured by opening and ex-
tending said street; and the names of the persons and
the sums of money which they shall respectively be
obliged to pay, and the time within which it is to be
paid shall be returned under their hands and seals to
the register of the city of Baltimore, to be filed and
kept in his office: and the persons benefited by the

Damages — ju-
ry to be sum-
moned.