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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Sess.

1813.

Deeds shall
be valid.
Purchases
and sales.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any deed or
deeds which may be executed by the said Sarah B. Park-
er, and the whole or part of the said property shall be as
good and valid as if the said Sarah was a feme sole.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for all the pur-
poses of purchasing, selling or contracting for properly,
or of suing or being sued, the said Sarah B. Parker shall
be considered a feme sole.

CHAPTER 135.

Passed Jan.
27, 1814.

Exempted
from distress.

An act to exempt Spinning-wheels and Looms from exe-
cution and distress.
Section 1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That from and after the passage
of this act, it shall not be lawful to seize, or take by
distress, or on execution, any Spinning-wheel or Loom
which shall be loaned or hired out to any person or per-
sons, for any house rent, or debt due by such person or
persons.

CHAPTER 136.

Passed Jan.
23, 1814.

Commission-
ers — to lay out

&c. Plot.

A further additional supplement to an act entitled, an
act to lay out a certain road in Baltimore county.
Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That Charles Gorsuch, Nathan Bak-
er, John Jeffries, James M'Comas and Buckler Bond be,
and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they
or a majority of them are hereby authorised and empow-
ered to review the location of a road made under the act
to which this is supplementary, and make any alterations
in the same that they may think necessary for the public
convenience, and lay out, mark and bound the same in
the straightest and best direction the nature of, the
ground will admit of, and the road when so laid out,
marked and bounded, and the valuation hereinafter di-
rected to be made shall have taken place, and a plot of
the same made out, and returned to the clerk of Balti-
more county court to be recorded among the records of
said county, shall forever thereafter be deemed and ta-
ken for a public highway, and be kept in repair as other

Proviso.

public roads in said county; Provided always, That the
said road shall not be laid out so as to interfere with any
race, canal, dam or water works, or injure or destroy
the right of privilege owned or held by any person or
persons of using, conveying or employing the water of
the little falls of Gun-Powder River.

Damages.

Grievances.

Remedy.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commis-
sioners or a majority of them, shall ascertain and value
what damages may be sustained by any person or per-
sons through whose land the said road shall pass, taking
into consideration the advantages and disadvantages, if
any, and the same when so assessed, shall be paid or