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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Sess.

1813

Deed shall

be valid.

had appeared in the said decree as complainant instead
of the name of John Medtart Senr.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any deed of con-
veyance acknowledged and recorded according to law
by the said John Coppenheffer, Mary Whitmore, Eliza-
beth Whitmore, Michael Whitmore, Catherine Whit-
more, George Whitmore, Nicholas Whitmore, Susan
Whitmore and Margaret Whitmore, to the said Jacob
Medtart, for the land distinguished by No. 6, as mention-
ed in said decree, shall he as valid as it the name of Ja-
cob Medtart had appeared as complainant in the said de-
cree, instead of the name of John Medtart Senr.

Neglect or

refusal to
make a deed.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the said
John Coppenheffer, Mary Whitmore, Elizabeth Whit-
more, Michael Whitman, Catherine Whitmore. George
Whitmore, Nicholas Whitmore, Susan Whitmore and
Margaret Whitmore, shall neglect or refuse to make a
dred of conveyance for the land as mentioned in the de-
cree aforesaid to the said Jacob Medtart he shall be as
completely entitled in fee simple and clear of all incum-
berance to it, us he could have been by the laws of Mar-
yland, had his name appeared in the said decree as com-
plainant instead of the name of John Medtart Senr.

CHAPTER 108.

Passed Jan.
26, 1814.
Preamble.

An act to lay out and make public a road in Cecil county.
WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Cecil county have
preferred a petition to this General Assembly, prating
that a road may be opened and laid out in said county,
and the prayer of the petitioners appearing reasonable;
Therefore,

Commission-
ers. Width &
direction.

Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That George Gale, Samuel C. Hall

and John Stump of said county be, and they are hereby
appointed commissioners lor the purposes of this act,
and that they, or a majority of them are hereby autho-
rised and required to survey and Jay out a road, not ex-
ceeding thirty feet wide clear of ditches, beginning at
Port Deposit, and running as nearly straight as the na-
ture of the ground will admit of until it intersects the
road from the lower ferry on Susquehannah to Battle

Proviso.

Swap; Provided, That the said road shall not be made
to pass through the buildings, yards, gardens, or orch-
ards of any person or persons, without the consent of
the owner or owners thereof.

Plot Expence
to be levied.
Overseer.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of
them, on or before the first Monday of September next,
to cause a plot and certificate of said road to be made,
and return the same to the levy court of Cecil county at
their first sitting thereafter; and if the levy court of said
county, upon consideration of all circumstances shall be
of opinion that the said road will be of advantage, then