LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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aged by the said road, to value the same and to adjudge
and assess the damages which will accrue to the person
or persons so demanding the jury by reason of the said
road, if any, the said jury first taking an oath, by the
sheriff to them to be administered, to ascertain the true
value of the land so to be occupied by the said road,
and assess the damages by the person or persons requir-
ing such jury, by reason of the said road, justly and fair-
ly, without favor, affection or ill will to any person, and to
the best of their knowledge and judgment; and the
verdict to be given by the said jury shall be signed by the
jurors respectively, and delivered to the said sheriff, and
by him be returned to the said levy court, and the said
court shall levy the sum so adjudged upon me assessable
property of the said county at the laying of the next
levy for the laid county thereafter. But if such valuation
by the jury should be less than that before made by the
commissioners, the owner or owners of the land so re-
quiring such jury shall pay all the cost of the said pro-
ceeding.

DEC. SESS.
1814.

9. AND BE IT EN ACTED, That the said commis-
sioners or a majority of them, and the said jury or juries
as the case may be, in estimating the value of the lands
so to be occupied by the road, or in estimating the dama-
ges occasioned by the running of the said road through the
lands of any person or persons, shall take into consider-
ation all advantages as well as disadvantages arising to
the person or persons through whose land the said road
shall run.

Estimate of
value and da-
mages.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the persons who
have signed the petition to the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland praying that this road may be opened having ex-
plicitly stated in their petition that they are willing to
give the land for the said road, so far as the same may
run through their lands respectively, no consideration
or sum shall be levied or paid for the value of the land
which the said road shall occupy, which belongs to any
one or more of the said petitioners.

Lands of peti-
tioners not to
be paid for.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the said
commissioners or a majority of them shall have returned
a plot of the said road as by them laid out and established,
to the levy court of Washington county, the said court
shall cause the said plot to be recorded as the plots of o-
ther public roads in the said county are recorded; and the
said road shall thereupon be a public road, and shall there-
upon he opened and kept in repair in the same manner that
other public roads hare been opened and kept in repair
in the said county; and to defray the expence of doing
so, the said court shall levy upon the taxable property
of the said county, a sum sufficient therefor.

Plot to be re-
corded.

6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the
said commissioners die, refuse to act, resign, or in any
way be unable to act in the premises, the levy court of

Vacancies in
the board of
commission-
ers.