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LAWS OF MARYLAND, Nov. SESS. 1812.

1812

CHAPTER 4.
An Act authorising the Levy Court of Washing-

Passed Nov.
11, 1812.

ton county, to open a road in mid county.

Levy court
may open said
road — they
may appoint
commission-

ers — their du
ty — power of
the Levy
Court— width
of the road—
expense may
be levied on
the county.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the levy court of Washington coun-
ty, if they, or a majority of them, shall think that a
road leading from John Shairk's mill, through the
lands of Thomas M'Cardle to meet and go with a
lane that separates the plantation of Henry Lewis
and the Plantation late the property of Doctor Rich-
ard Pindell, and thence to intersect the main road
leading from Hager's Town to Hancock Town is ne-
cessary or beneficial to the inhabitants of said coun-
ty, shall have power and authority to appoint three
commissioners to lay off a road not exceeding twenty
feet wide, and have the same surveyed and plain
plots made of the same, and return said plots to the
levy court of the county aforesaid under their hands;
and said commissioners shall have full power to bar-
gain and contract with any person or persons over
whose hind the said road may pass, or adjudge the
damage any person or persons may sustain by the
said road, and make a return of ail contracts for land
or damages adjudged by them, by reason of opening
said road, to the levy court, under their hands; and the
said court may order the same to be recorded, or re-
ject the same or any part thereof; and the levy court
shall levy on the assessable property of Washington
county, the expence of the commissioners for viewing
and surveying the said road, and if the levy court
shall confirm the said road agreeably to the return of
the commissioners, and cause the same to be re-
corded, they shall then appoint a supervisor or super-
visors to clear and open the said road not exceeding-
twenty feet in width, and may levy the expence of
said road upon the assessable property of Washing-
ton county.

CHAPTER 5.

Passed Nov.

13, 1812.

A supplement to An act to lay out and open a road
in Frederick county, passed November session
eighteen hundred and nine.

Commission-
ers to survey
and lay out
said road.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Thomas Jones, James Mark, Sam
uel Reynolds, George L. Kesselving and John Bower,
appointed commissioners to survey, lay out and open
the road mentioned in the act to which this is a sup-