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clear said road agreeably to the plot and certificate afore-
said; and the said road when opened and cleared as afore-
said shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be forever
thereafter a public road, and shall be kept in repair as other
public roads in said county.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
or a majority of them, shall value ami ascertain the damages
that may be sustained by each and every of the persons through.
whose lands the said road may pass (petitioners to the General
Assembly for this road only excepted,) by opening the same,
taking into estimation the advantages and disadvantages, if
any; and the damages so ascertained shall be levied and assess-
ed as other county charges are, and shall be paid over to the
persons respectively through whose lands the said road may
pass, except as before executed.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commission- c
ers shall be entitled to receive a compensation for their atten-
dance and services in discharge of their duties of this act, not
exceeding two dollars per day, to be ascertained by the levy
court, which is hereby directed to be levied collected and paid
as other county charges are.
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DEC. SESS.
1815.
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CHAPTER. 33.
An act for erecting a bridge over the Potomac, near
Williamsport in Washington County.
WHEREAS, It is represented to this General Assembly by
the inhabitants of Williamsport, and its vicinity, in Washing-
ton county, that they together with a number of other inhabi-
tants, of Virginia, are desirous of forming a company for the
purpose of erecting a bridge over the Potomac; There-
fore,
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Jacob T. Towson, Edward G. Williams, Samuel
Ringgold, John Buchanan, Matthew Van Lear, Robert T.
Friend, Rawleigh Colston, Elisha Boyd, Archibald Shearer •
and Thomas C. Smith be, and they are hereby appointed mana-
gers to do and perform the several duties herein after nam-
ed, that is to say; they or any two of them, shall and may on
or before the first day of May next, procure one or more books,
as to them shall seem necessary and shall enter therein as follows:
"we whose names are hereunto subscribed, promise to pay to
the president directors and company, for erecting a bridge over
the Potomac river, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents at
the time of subscribing, and the sum of two dollars and fifty
cents every sixty days thereafter, until twenty dollars be paid
upon every share of stock in said company, set opposite our
respective names;" and shall thereupon proceed to receive sub-
scriptions for the stock of the said company, which is hereby
declared to be the sum of forty thousand dollars, divided into
two thousand shares of twenty dollars each, at such time and
place as they think proper, of which three weeks notice shall
be given in the two newspapers published at Hagers Town,
and shall keep the said books open for the space of three
weeks, unless the whole number of shares be sooner subscrib-
ed for, which subscriptions may be made by person, or by
proxy; and in case the whole number of shares shall not be
subscribed for in that time, the said, managers, or any two of
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Passed Dec.
30, 1815.
Preamble.
Managers--
books—sub-
scriptions—
shares.
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