LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR

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what damages may be sustained by any person or
persons through whose land the said road may pass;
and the said valuation shall be paid or secured to be
paid, before the commissioners shall proceed to open

1812.

the same; Prodded always, That any person or per-
sons through whose land the said road shall pass, or
his, ner or their guardian or trustee, shall conceive
him, her or themselves aggrived by such valuation
and assessment of damages, it shall and may be law-
ful for any justice of the peace for said county, on the
application of any person interested, to issue his war-
rant under his hand and seal, directed to the consta-
ble of the hundred where such land may lie, com-
manding him to summon twelve freeholders, not in
terested in the said lands, to appear on a day by him
to be appointed, on the said lands, at which time and
place such freeholders so summoned shall respectively
appear; and having each first taken an oath that he
will without favor, affection or partiality, assess the
damages sustained by the person or persons at whose
request such inquisition shall be taken by reason of
opening the aforesaid road through his, her or their
land, shall thereupon proceed to assess and value the
damages accordingly, taking into consideration the
advantages and disadvantages, (if any; ) and such in
quisition and valuation shall be final and conclusive
between the parties respectively.

CHAPTER 53.

Proviso.

A supplement to the act entitled "An act to lay
out and make a public road in Baltimore county
passed the twentieth of January eighteen hundred
and eight.

Passed Dec.
7, 1812.

WHEREAS, It appears to this General Assem-
bly, that a law having passed in eighteen hundred and
eight, appointing commissioners to lay out, clear,
and open a public road from the east end of Dulany-
street, in the city of Baltimore, to communicate with
the Philadelphia road; and it appearing that the said
road having been laid out through the property of
Jacob Landenslager, and no provision having been
made in the said law for remunerating the said Jacob
Landenslager for the damages sustained by the pas-
sage of the said road through his property: Therefore,

Preamble.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Hezekiah Price, Daniel Conn, James
C. Dew, William Stansbury, (of Abraham, ) and Jo-

Commission-
ers—certain
damages to be