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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Sess.

1813.

sembly of Maryland, That Thomas Seegar, Robert
Stevetts, Vincent Benton, Samuel Casey and Daniel
Rochester be, and they are hereby appointed commis-
sioners to lay out, survey, mark and bound a public
road in said county not exceeding thirty feet wide, be-
ginning fit or near Dudley's meeting house, and running
in such direction to Collester's ferry as the said commis-
sioners or a majority of them may deem most proper and
correct

Plot.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED. That the said com-
missioners or a majority of them, are hereby directed to
return a plot of said road when surveyed, marked and
laid out as aforesaid, to the clerk of the county court to
be by him recorded, which road when so ascertained
shall be deemed and taken a public road forever thereaf-

Proviso.

ter, shall be kept up and repaired as all other public roads
in said county are; Provided, The said road shall not be
laid out through the buildings, yards, gardens or orch-
ards of any persons, without the consent of the owner
thereof.

Vacancies.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commis-
sioners shall have power to fill up any vacancy that may
take place through death or refusal to act as a commis-
sioner of said road.

Passed Jan.

17, 1814.

Commission-
ers to be ap-
pointed. Dam-

ages.

CHAPTER 77.
A supplement to the act entitled, an act to incorporate a
company to make a turnpike road from the District
of Columbia, to the city of Baltimore.
Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the levy court of Prince Geor-
ge's county be, and they are hereby authorised and em-
powered, in their discretion, upon the application of the
president managers and company of the Washington
and Baltimore turnpike road, to appoint three discreet
and disinterested persons as commissioners to extend
and open the road leading down the eastern side of the
north west branch from Montgomery county to Bla-
densburgh, at the expense of the president managers
and company of said road, so as to connect the said road
with the turnpike road established by the act to which
this is a supplement, in the direction most convenient
and advantageous to all parties concerned, and the said
commissioners or a majority of them shall ascertain
what damages (if any may be sustained by the persons
through whose lands the said road when so extended and
opened shall pass,) and the same when so ascertained shall
be paid by the president, managers and company of the

Washington and Baltimore turnpike road.

Part of a

road to be shut
up.

8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president
managers and company of said road be, and they are
hereby authorised and empowered to shut up all that part
of the old road leading from Bladensburgh to Baltimore