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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1821.
Pilots exempt.

be recovered with costs in the county court where the offence may
happen, by indictment.
6. And be it enacted, That no slave being a pilot and hiring
himself as such shall be subject to the provisions of this act, nor
shall other slaves be arrested for a violation thereof during twenty
days in time of harvest.

This act to be
given in in charge
to grand juries.

7. And be it enacted, That it shall be and is hereby made
• the duty of the presiding judge in the counties to which the opera-
tion of this act is confined, to give this act in charge to the grand
jury on the first day of the meeting of the county court during the
continuance of this act.

Repeal.

8. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the acts of as-
sembly and of the act to which this act is a supplement, as are in-
consistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this act, be and the
same are hereby repealed.

Passed Feb. 20,
1822.
Preamble.

CHAPTER 184.

An act for altering and amending the road from Baltimore city to
Belle Air in Harford county.
Whereas, It has been represented to this general assembly by
the petition of sundry inhabitants of Baltimore city and county and
Harford county, that the road leading from Belle Air to Baltimore,
is laid over steep hills that is not fit for a road, which hills may be
easily avoided by winding them, and pray that commissioners be
appointed to view said road and make such alteration as they in
their judgment shall deem necessary, and the prayer appearing rea-
sonable—Therefore,

Commission-
ers—to review
—surveys—
plots.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Thomas Hays and James Steel for Harford county, and Wil-
liam Fitch and Philemon Towson for Baltimore county, be and they
are hereby appointed commissioners, and the two first named are
hereby authorised and empowered to view the road leading from
Belle Air to the Baltimore county line, and to make such alteration
in the location thereof, as they in their judgment shall deem ne-
cessary, so as to ascend and descend the hills with as much ease as
they shall find practicable, and cause a survey to be made of all
such alterations as they may deem necessary to make, and shall
cause a certificate and plot of such survey to be made, and return
the same to the clerk of Harford county court, to be by him record-
ed; and the two last named commissioners to view that part of the
said road from the Baltimore and Harford county line to the city
of Baltimore, and to make such alteration in the location thereof, as
they in their judgment shall deem necessary, so as to ascend and
descend the hills with as much ease as they shall find practicable,
and cause a survey to be made of all such alterations as they may
deem necessary to make, and shall cause a certificate and plot of
such survey to be made and return the same to the clerk of Balti-

Proviso.

more county court, to be by him recorded: Provided, the present lo-
cation of said road, shall not be changed where it crosses White-
marsh run.

Compensation.

2. And be it enacted, That each of the said commissioners
shall be allowed two dollars per day for each and every day that
they shall necessarily attend to the duties imposed on them by this
act, by the levy court of the county to which they belong.