1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 177.

Jane King, payable to herself, or order, twenty dollars; for John
Miller, payable to himself, or order, for the use of Margaret
Miller, Jacob Miller and Peter Miller, forty-five dollars; for
Elizabeth Brightwell, payable to herself, or order, twenty dol-
lars; for Elizabeth Richards, payable to herself, or order, twenty
dollars; for Ann Richards, payable to herself, or order, twenty
dollars; for Rachael Vermillian, payable to herself, or order, twenty
dollars; for Thomas Gibbons, payable to himself, or order, twenty
dollars; for Adam Lucas, payable to himself, or order, twenty
dollars; for James Etcherton, payable to himself, or order, twenty
dollars; for Isaac Clarke. payable to himself, or order, thirty
dollars. In Charles county, for Rachael Freeman, payable to
herself, or order, thirty dollars; for John Walpole, payable to
himself, or order, thirty dollars.

In favour of
Eleanor Wheeler.

2. And be it enacted, That the collector of tax for Mont-
gomery county be and he is hereby authorised and directed, to
pay Eleanor Wheeler, or her order, the sum of thirty dollars,
heretofore collected and made payable to the late William
Wheeler. ——

Passed Feb. 15, 1821.

Commissioners to
determine whe-
ther landing
should be estab-
Iished, &c.

CHAP. CLXXVIII.

An Act authorising the making of a Public Landing at Dockery's Point, in So-
merset County.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Robert Leatherbury, George D. Atkinson, and Marcellus Jones,
be and they or a majority of them are hereby appointed commis-
sioners, to meet at a place called Dockery's Landing, on Wicomi-
co river, in Somerset county, during the present year, and exa-
mine and determine whether the public convenience, does require
that a landing should be established at the said place, and if in
the opinion of the said commissioners, or a majority of them, the
public convenience does require that a landing should be estab-
lished at or near the aforementioned place, they or a majority of
them shall lay out a quantity of land for a public landing place,
to commence at or near Dockery's Point, on said river, and from
thence down said river towards the mouth of a gut called Bridge
Gut, not exceeding two acres of land, in such manner as they or
a majority of them may think most conducive to the public bene-
fit; and the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are here-
by required to return a plot of said landing place to the clerk of
Somerset county court, there to be recorded, together with an es-
timate of the damages sustained by any person or persons whose
land may be taken, laid out and appropriated as aforesaid.

If they deter-
mine in favour of
a landing, to re-
port to levy court,
&c.

2. And be it enacted, That if the said commissioners, or a ma-
jority of them, shall be of opinion that the public convenience does
require that a landing should be established at or near the afore-
mentioned place, they shall report the same in writing to the levy
court of Somerset county, and if the levy court, or a majority of
them, shall approve of such opinion, the said court is hereby em-
powered and directed, to assess and levy the amount of such da-
mages as shall be ascertained by the commissioners aforesaid,
which sum of money shall be levied, collected and paid over, as
other county charges are.

If also, they
determine other-
wise, to report, &c.

3. And be it enacted, That if the commissioners aforesaid, or a
majority of them, shall be of opinion that the public convenience