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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

DEC. SESS.

1813.

lands or over or across his mill dam, nor shall any tax
be levied on the county for making said road over or
across said mill dam, race or waste, but the same shall be
made and kept in repair by the owner, possessor or oc-
cupier thereof.

Commissi-
oners, shall
take an oath.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said com-
missioners before they shall proceed to act, shall take an
oath before some justice of the peace of the same tenor
and effect as is herein directed to be taken by the
jurors, and if any of the commissioners named in this
act shall die, resign or refuse to act, the remaining com-
missioners, or a majority of them shall be, and they are
hereby authorised to supply such vacancy by appointing
another person or persons.

Roads to be
opened and
cleared. Ex-
pence to be
returned to
the levy court
Compensation
or the com-
missioners.

5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said com-
missioner, or a majority of them, when the said roads
shall be laid out and marked, shall cause the same to be
opened, cleared and made passible, and shall return an
accurate account of the costs and expenses of laying out
clearing and opening the said roads to the levy court of
said county, and the justices of said levy court are here-
by authorised and directed to levy the same on the as-
sesssbe property of said county, and when so levied
shall be collected and paid over to the person or persons
entitled to receive the same, as other county charges are,
and the justices of the levy court are hereby authorised
to allow such compensation to the commissioners in the
execution of this act, as they shall deem reasonable, not
exceeding two dollars per day.

Petitioners
shall not be
entitled, to da-
mages.

6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no person or per-
sons through whose land either of the said roads shall
psss, and who has agreed to the same and signed the
petition to that effect, shall be entitled to any damages
by this act.

Passed Jan.
17, 1814.

Absence of
persons ma-
king deeds.

CHAPTER 104.

A further additional supplementary act to the act enti-
tled, an act for quieting possessions, enrolling convey-
ances and securing the estates of purchasers.
Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That when the person or persons
making any deed or conveyance for conveying any lands
tenements or hereditaments in this state, or declaring or
limiting any use in or for any such lands tenements or he-
reditaments, shall be at the time of the execution of such
deed or conveyance out of this state, so that the same can-
not be acknowledged in the manner deeds or conveyan-
ces are directed to be acknowledged within this state,
then and in every such case the deed or conveyance may
be acknowledge in the manner heretofore prescribed by

Letters of at-
torney — how
to be proved.

law, or by letter of attorney proved as herein after di-
rected.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the letter of at-