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LAWS OF MARYLAND, Nov. SESS. 1812.

1812.
Proviso.

as little injury to the individuals over whose land the
same may pass, as may comport with the public con-
venience: And provided, The said road shall not be
laid out through the garden, yard, meadow or orch-
ard of any person or persons, without his, her or
their consent in writing, first had and obtained; and
a plot of said road when surveyed, confirmed and laid
out, together with a certificate of the courses of the
same, shall be returned to the clerk's office of Cecil
county, there to be recorded.

Overseers may
be appointed.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the
plot of said road shall have been confirmed and re-
corded as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the
levy court to levy upon the assessable property in
said county, a sum of money such as they shall deem
necessary under all circumstances, and to appoint an
overseer or overseers to open and clear said road
agreeably to the plot and certificate aforesaid,, who
shall give bond in like manner as other overseers of
public roads are directed to give bond, and shall have
the same allowance; and the said road when opened
and cleared as aforesaid, shall be, and the same is
hereby declared to be, forever thereafter. a public road,
and shall be kept in repair as other public roads in
said county.

Compensation
of commissi-
oners.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said com-
missioners respectively, when named by the levy
court as aforesaid, shall be entitled to receive two
dollars for everyday they shall severally attend to
discharge the duties required by this act, which is
hereby directed to be levied, collected and paid, as
other county charges are levied, collected and paid.

Damages —
who shall as-
certain them
— how to be
paid.

'4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said com-
missioners, or a majority of them, shall value and
ascertain the damages that may be sustained by each
and every of the persons, through or on whose lands
the said road may pass (petitioners to the General
Assembly for this road only excerpted, ) by opening
the same, and the damages so ascertained shall be le-
vied and assessed as other county charges are, and
shall be paid over to the said persons respectively
over whose land said road may pass.

CHAPTER 76.

Passed Dec.
16, 1812.

Preamble.

A further supplement to an act passed at November
session seventeen hundred and ninety-six, entitled,
"An act relating to negroes and to repeal the act
of Assembly therein mentioned. "
WHEREAS; The act of assembly, to which this