SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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may be, taken before some mayor, notary-public, alderman or jus-
tice of the peace, of the town, county or state where such person
shall reside, that the person or persons so signing the said order, is

the person to whom the said pension was granted.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

2. And be it enacted, That the governor and council be re-
guested to cause this law to be published in such news-papers as
they may deem advisable to give the most general circulation to
the same.

To be publish-

ed.

CHAPTER 200.

An act authorising the laying off ground and extending thereon the
public wharf at New-Town in Worcester county.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Peter Holland, Giles Jones, John Hargis, Ephraim K. Wilson,
and Irving Spence, be and they are hereby appointed commis-
sioners to lay out, survey, mark and bound a sufficiency of
ground adjoining the public wharf at New-Town in Worcester
county, to make said wharf of such size and extent as the public
interest may in their judgment require, and in such way as will be
least prejudicial to the interests of the present holders of the pro-
perty on which said wharf may be made.

Passed Feb. 22,
1822.

Commissioners

to lay off
ground.

2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, or a

majority of them, shall ascertain the damages which any person
or persons may sustain by reason of the said wharf being laid out
from his, her or their lands, which shall be first paid or secured to
be paid by the persons interested in laying out said wharf, before
the said wharf be made public.

3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, or a
majority of them, are hereby directed to return a plot of the said
wharf, when surveyed, marked and laid out as aforesaid, to the
clerk of the county court, to be by him recorded; which wharf,
when laid out, shall be deemed and taken as a public wharf forever

thereafter, and shall be kept up and repaired as all other public

Plot—to be

public.

wharfs in said county are; Provided, That nothing herein contained
shall in any manner authorise the said commissioners to lav out the
said wharf through the buildings, garden, orchard or yard", of any
person or persons, without his, her or their consent, or if minors,

without the consent of his, her or their guardian.

Proviso.

4. And be it unacted, That the persons interested in laving
out the said wharf, shall pay to the commissioners the reasonable
expenses for surveying and laying out the said ground for a public
wharf, and making out and returning the said plot.

Expense to be
paid by persons
interested.

CHAPTER 201.

An act to incorporate The Savage Manufacturing Company.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Michael M'Blair and John Smith Hollins, their associates,
successors and assigns, be and they are hereby created a corpora-
tion and body politic by the name and style of The Savage Manu-
facturing company; and by that name may have perpetual succession,
and shall be able and capable in law to sue and be sued, implead and be
impleaded, answer and be answered in any court of law or equity,
and to make and use a common seal, and the same to change and
alter at pleasure; and to ordain and establish such by-laws and re-

Passed Feb. 22,
1822.
Incorporated
—privileges

&c.