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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

manner as the oath, qualifications and duties, are by
examiners appointed in reference to opening, alter-
ing, or closing any road or roads according to the
provisions of an act of the General Assembly of the
State of Maryland, passed at the January session, in
the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three, chapter
220, entitled, "An Act granting the County Commis-
sioners of the several counties of this State, the pow-
er to open, alter, and close roads in their respective
counties."

Invested with
power.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the County Com-
missioners of Kent county aforesaid, be and they
or a majority of them, are hereby authorised to ex-
ercise the same powers and pursue the same mode
of proceeding in making, establishing, altering, or
closing a public landing, as they now have, can claim
or exercise in opening, altering, or closing roads un-
der the aforesaid act; Provided, no lot or piece of
ground, condemned for a public landing, shall exceed
one acre of land.

Right to ap-
peal.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That whenever any
person or persons shall deem themselves aggrieved
by the decision of the said County Commissioners, in
any case, he, she, or they shall have the right of en-
tering an appeal to the Circuit Court for Kent coun-
ty, at any time within sixty days from the time of
the decision of the said County Commissioners, and
the case shall be determined by the Judge thereof,
or by a jury, at the option of either party.

In force.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall be
in force from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 158.

Passed Mar.
8, 1856.

AN ACT to make valid certain deeds from the Lan-
gollen Mining Company to William Lannon.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, on the twenty-second day of May, in the
year eighteen hundred and fifty-four, the Langol-
len Mining Company executed their deed to Wil-
liam Lannon, of Allegany county, purporting to