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he will attain that age on the first day of January next,
3. BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED, That the stock to
be purchased by the said William Gwynn, his executors and ad-
ministrators as aforesaid, and the accumulations thereof shall
remain in his or their name for the use aforesaid, untransferred
until the said John Mason Forster shall attain his said age of
twenty five years, or depart this life; and that in case of his
death before be attain that age, the said stock with the accu-
mutations thereof as aforesaid, shall be held by the said Wil-
liam Gwynn, his executors and administrators in trust for the
persons who on that event would have been entitled to the said
lot if this act had not passed, and shall be transferred and paid
to them, or their agents duly authorised in lieu and full satis-
faction of the said lot, the right to use and keep open which as a
public street, forever as aforesaid, shall in no wise be affected
by the death of the said John Mason Forster before his age of
twenty five years.
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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Stock pur-
chased.
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CHAPTER 189.
An act to open a road from William P. Patterson's farm, in
Queen Ann's county.
WHEREAS it is represented to this General Assembly by
the petition of William P. Patterson, of Harford county, that
great and serious inconvenience doth arise to him in conse-
quence of his having at the present time no road open from
his farm to the public road.—Therefore,
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of,
Maryland, That James Roberts, William Jacobs, George Fin-
ley, Campbell J. Cornelius and George Godwin, be, and they are
hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and open a road
not exceeding twenty feet in width to the nearest public road
in the most convenient direction both for the petitioner and
those persons through whose lands the said road may pass.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
or a majority of them shall, and they are hereby directed and
required to make or cause to be made, a plot of said road when
opened as aforesaid, and shall make a return of said plot to-
gether with a certificate of the courses of the said road to the
clerk of Queen Ann's county, to be recorded among the re-
cords of said county; and when the same shall have been laid
out, cleared and opened as directed by this act, the said road
shall forever thereafter be deemed free for engress, egress and
regress, to the said farm of the petitioner from the said public-
road.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the commis-
sioners named in this act shall die, resign or refuse to act, the
remaining commissioners or a majority of them shall, and they
are hereby authorised to supply such vacancy by the appoint-
ment of another person.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commission-
ers or a majority of them, shall ascertain and value what dam-
ages may be sustained by any person or persons 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 secured to be paid by the said
William P. Patterson, to the person or persons entitled to re-
ceive the same, before be shall proceed to open the same.
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Passed Jan.
27, 1816.
Preamble.
Width.
Plot.
Vacancies.
Damages.
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