SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are
hereby repealed.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

CHAPTER 206.

An act supplementary to the act entitled, An act for the benefit of the
infant children of Gerard Briscoe, late of Charles county, deceas-
ed, passed in the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, chapter 152.
Whereas, It appears to this general assembly, that the orphans'
court of Charles county, in pursuance of the power vested in them
by the original act to which this is a supplement, did authorise and
appoint Elizabeth Briscoe, who intermarried with a certain Robert
Brawner, to carry into execution the provisions of the said act:
And whereas, the said trust was in part executed during the life of
the said Elizabeth, and it is necessary that a trustee should be ap-
pointed to consummate the trust so in part executed by the said
Elizabeth—Therefore,

Passed Feb. 22,
1822.

Preamble.

Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the orphans' court of Charles county, be and they are hereby direct-
ed and empowered to appoint the said Robert Brawner to complete
the said trust; and it shall be the duty of the said court to take the
bond of the said Robert Brawner with such security and such penal-
ty as the court shall approve, conditioned for the faithful perform-
ance of his duties as trustee, and the deed or deeds which shall be
executed by the said trustee shall be effectual to convey all the
right, title and estate which was in the infant children of the said
Gerard Briscoe.

Orphans' court

to appoint.

CHAPTER 207.

Jin act to lay out and make public a road leading from Bean Town,
in Charles county, to Mattawoman Swamp, between the plantations
of Theodore Dyer and Eleanor Townsend, where the said swamp
divides Charles and Prince-George's counties.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That William P. Ford, Henry W. Hardy and James M. Murry,
be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to survey and lay
out a road in Charles county, beginning at Bean Town, thence in a
straight direction to Mattawoman Swamp where said Swamp di-
vides Charles and Prince George's counties, between the plantations
of Theodore Dyer and Eleanor Townsend, not exceeding thirty feet
in width; Provided, That the said road shall not pass through the
buildings, yards, gardens or orchards of any person without the
consent of the owner or owners thereof.

Passed Feb. 22,
1822.

Commissioners
to lay out.

2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall
cause a plot and certificate of said road when so surveyed and
laid out, to be made and returned to the levy court of Charles
county at their next sitting thereafter; whereupon it shall be their
duty to levy upon the assessable property of said county, a sum of
money such as they shall deem necessary to defray the expense in-
curred in laying out said road; and the levy court of said county
shall appoint an overseer or overseers to open and clear said road
agreeably to the plot and certificate aforesaid, and the said road
when opened and cleared as aforesaid, shall be and the same is
hereby declared to be forever thereafter a public road, and shall
be kept in repair as other public roads in said county.

Plot—expense

to be levied.