LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR

CHAPTER 88.

An act to lay out and open a road in Talbot county
WHEREAS, It is represented to this General As
sembly by the petition of William Harrison, (of
James, ) and James Harrison, inhabitants of Talbot
county, that they suffer great inconvenience for want
of a road from their land to the public road: There-
fore,

1812.

Passed Dec.
19, 1812.
Preamble.

SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That Samuel Tenant, Robert
Dodson, Nathan Harrington, Thomas Hambleton
and Daniel Fiddeman be, and they are hereby ap-
pointed commissioners to lay out, survey, mark and
bound a public road in said county, not exceeding
twenty-five feet wide, at the expense of the petition-
ers, beginning at the division line between James
Harrison's and Samuel Harrison's, or the division line
between James Harrison's and Joseph Harrison's, and
running in such direction to the public road leading
from Easton to William Haddaway's ferry, as the na-
ture of the ground arid conveniences of the land hold-
ers over which the same may run, will admit of:

Commission-
ers— they may
lay out said
road — its
width and di-
rection.

Provided, That the said road shall not be laid out over
any orchard, garden, yard or meadow of any person
without his or her consent in writing, first had and
obtained.

Proviso.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said com-
missioners, or a majority of them, are hereby directed
to return a plot of said road when surveyed, marked
and laid out as aforesaid, to the clerk of the county

court, to be by him recorded; which road when laid
out, cleared and made passable, and received by two
justices of the peace to be appointed by the levy court
of the county aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken
as a public road forever thereafter, and shall be kept
up and repaired as all other public roads in said coun-
ty are.

CHAPTER 89.

A plot to be
returned to the
clerk of the
county court
to be recorded
— how to be
kept in repair.

An act to incorporate a Company in the City of Bal-
timore, entitled " The United Hose and Suction
Engine Company. "

Passed Dec.,
19, 1812.

WHEREAS, It is represented to this General As-
sembly, that the members of the United Hose and
Suction Engine" Company, of the city of Baltimore,
have purchased an Engine and other apparatus for the
extinguishment of fire, and have adopted a constitu-

Preamble.