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SAMUEL. STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1823

Compensa-
tion.

thereafter a public road, and shall be kept in repair as other public
roads are.
14. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall be enti-
tled to receive a compensation for their services and attendance, not
exceeding two dollars a day, to be ascertained by the levy court of the
county to which the said plot or certificate shall be returned, which
together with all charges arising from the survey or attendance of
witnesses or other process of the court, shall in the discretion of the
said court, be paid by the petitioners, or levied, collected and paid by
the counties as herein before directed

Fees.

15.. And be it enacted, That the officer of the levy court in said
county shall be entitled to receive the same fees for all business done
in virtue of this law as are now allowed for like services, to be paid as
aforesaid.

Former laws.

16. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act shall be construed to
repeal the power heretofore vested in the several levy courts of this
state, in and relating to the altering of public roads through the lands
of persons petitioning for such alterations.

Case of da-
mages to be
paid by the
petitioners.

17. And be it enacted, That whenever it shall be adjudged by the.
levy court that the damages, or any proportion of the same sustained
by reason of opening, straightening or shutting up any road, shall be
paid by the petitioners therefor, the levy court shall not proceed to
open or straighten any road until the said petitioners shall have pro-
ved to their satisfaction that the said damages, or such proportion
thereof as aforesaid, have been fully paid or secured to be paid, the
said security to be determined by the levy court, and tendered to the

Proviso.

respective persons authorised to receive the same;—Provided, always,
that such proof shall be offered within twelve months next after the
judgment of the court, and in case the said proof shall not be made
within the time above limited, the same proceedings shall be had as
if the judgment of the court had been against the petitioners, and the
said petition shall be considered as withdrawn by the said petitioners.

Repeal.

18. And be it enacted, That the act, entitled, an act to empower
and authorise the several levy courts of this state, to direct the open-
ing, straightening, or shutting up of, public roads, passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and sixteen, be, and the same is hereby re-
pealed, so far as the same relates to Somerset and Dorchester
counties.

Passed Jan.
29, 1824.
Preamble.

CHAPTER 74.

An act for the relief of Richard Waller, Josiah Broughton, and Samuel Heath,
securities of William S. Handy, late Sheriff of Somerset county.
Whereas, it has been represented to this General Assembly by
the petition of Richard Waller, Josiah Broughton and Samuel Heath,
securities of William S. Handy, late sheriff of Somerset county, that
in consequence of the failure of the said William S. Handy, that they
have become involved in heavy debts, and have suffered most disas-
trous and minous losses from the pressure of the times and various
calamities, insomuch that it is with extreme difficulties they can pro-
vide the means of supporting their numerous, and expensive families,
they therefore pray to be released from the payment of the interest on
paying the principle sum due to the state;—Therefore,

Release.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,That Richard
Waller, Josiah Broughton and Samuel Heath, securities of William
S. Handy, late sheriff of Somerset county, be, and they are hereby
released from the payment of the nine per cent interest on the whole