LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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the streets or road as contemplated by this act to be
opened and extended, shall be set up and sold at pub-
lic auction by the commissioners aforesaid, or a majo-
rity of them, and the money arising from the sale
thereof, shall be applied to pay the damages which
may be sustained in consequence of the opening and
extending the streets and road as aforesaid.

1812.

8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and
may be lawful for the said commissioners, or a majo-
rity of them, to execute a deed or deeds to any per-
son or persons who may become a purchaser or pur-
chasers of the whole or any part of the ground which
they shall sell pursuant to the provisions of this act.

Deeds may be
executed to
purchasers.

9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said com-
missioners be allowed two dollars per day for each
and every day they may be necessarily employed in
the execution of the provisions of this act; and in
case of the death, resignation or refusal to act of any
of the commissioners named in this act, the vacancy
or vacancies so occasioned, shall be filled up by the
levy court of Baltimore county, at the request of the
surviving or remaining commissioner or commission-
ers.

CHAPTER 121.

Compensation
of commissi-
oners — vacan-
cies.

An act for opening and extending Low-street, in the
eastern precincts of Baltimore.

Passed Dec.
23, 1812.

WHEREAS, Sundry persons of the city and east-
ern precincts of Baltimore, have represented to this
General Assembly, that the beauty and convenience
of the said city and precincts require the opening
and extending of Low-street, and have petitioned for
the same: Therefore,

Preamble.

SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
embly of Maryland, That the commissioners of the
eastern precincts of Baltimore, shall be, and they arc
hereby authorised and empowered to open and ex-
tend Low-street, commencing at its intersection with
Union-street, thence of the width of thirty-three feet
north forty seven degrees east, to a stake by the side
of Diffenderfer's fence; thence of the same width,
north forty eight and a quarter degrees east, until it
intersects Aisquith street at a mark on the fence; and
the said street when so opened and extended, and the
assessment and valuation hereinafter directed shall
have been made, shall be deemed and taken, and is
hereby declared to be a public street and highway
forever thereafter; and the said commissioners are

Commissions
ers of the east-
ern precincts
may open and
extend said
street — its
width and di-
rection — a plot
to be returned.