CHARLES RIDGELY, (of Hampton) Esq. Governor.

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tice in this state, the court shall be satisfied by such testimony
that they may require, that such person is one of those who
profess to be conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath.

Dec. Sess.

1815.

CHAPTER. 183.
An art to authorise and empower the justices of the levy court
of Carolina county to discontinue the road therein mention-
ed.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of Caroline
county be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, (if
they shall think proper,) at their first session in the year eigh-
teen hundred and sixteen, or as soon thereafter as they may
deem it necessary, to discontinue that part of the public
road of said county, commonly called Carters Road, leading
from or near the corner of the fence on the land of the heirs of
Vincent Dehouty, and running through the lands of John Can-
ten and others, until it intersects the main road leading from
Punch Hall to Adams landing, any law to the contrary not
withstanding.

Passed Jan.
27, 1816.

May discon-
tinue.

CHAPTER 184.

An act to secure the printing of the Laws and Votes and Pro-
ceedings, and to require the faithful performance thereof by
the printer to the state.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the printer to the state shall within fifteen
days after the close of each and every annual session of the
General Assembly, enter into bond to the State of Maryland,
in the penalty of two thousand dollars, with such security as
shall be approved by the treasurer of the western shore, (which
bond shall be lodged with the said treasurer,) conditioned that
he will as printer to the State of Maryland, diligently and faith-
fully print and deliver the Laws and Votes and Proceedings of
the legislature as directed by law; Provided, that the said prin-
ter shall be allowed ninety days in addition to the time now
limited by law for printing and delivering the Laws and Votes
and Proceedings of December session eighteen hundred and
fifteen.

Passed Jan.
27. 1816.

Shall give
bond.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 185.
An act to incorporate the trustees of the Bladensburgh Acade-
my, and for other purposes.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Richard T. Lowndes, Thomas Ferral, Wil-
liam B. Jackson, William A. Fitzgerald, Thomas Bowie,
George Calvert, William Ross, Levi Sheriff, Samuel Sprigg
and Archibald Van Horn, be and they are hereby declared to
be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of The
Trustees of the Bladensburgh Academy, and by that name
shall have perpetual succession, and be capable in law to sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered,
defend and be defended, in any court or elsewhere, and to make
and use one common seal, and the same to alter or renew at
pleasure, and generally to do and perform all things relative to
the management of said academy.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the above

Passed Jan.
27, 1816.
Style-ef-
fect in law.

Vacancies.