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discharge of the debts of said John Stevens according to the
rules and regulations observed in like cases.
1. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustee shall
be entitled to such sum or sums of money for his expenses and
trouble that he may necessarily be put to, in performance of
the duties required by him to be done under this act, as the or-
phan's court of Worcester county shall think proper to allow
him.
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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Compensa-
tion.
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CHAPTER 46.
An act to make public an old road leading from Benjamin
Rice a merchant and saw mills by the widow Kemps, and
Christian Drill's mills, to the road leading from New
Town (Trapp,) to Tramelsburgh.
Hue. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That David Lakin, George W. Boerstler, Perry
Hilleary, Arthur Botler and Lloyd Luckett be, and they are
hereby appointed commissioners to widen, straighten amend
and make public (at the expanse of those persons who shall con-
ceive themselves benefited thereby,) the present road (not ex-
ceeding thirty feet wide,) from Benjamin Rice's merchant and
saw mills on Catoctin creek, to pass through the lane dividing
the lands of said Rice and William Lynch, to the widow
Kemp's merchant mill, thence to the brick merchant mill owned
by Christian Drill, thence with said present road, to the place
where the same intersects the line dividing the lands of George
Drill and the said widow Kemp, thence with said line easterly
to the end thereof, thence with the line or lines dividing; the
lands of James Simmons, and the said widow Kemp to the
south cast corner of the said widow Kemp's lands, thence with
the line dividing the lands of James Simmons and Frederick
Barger, to the place where the same crosses the main road,
leading from New-Town (Trapp,) to Tramelsburgh, the said
road to be laid out so as to bear equally upon the landhold-
ers, on the lines aforesaid; Provided, the said road shall not
be laid out so as to include a stone fence belonging to the
aforesaid widow Kemp near one of the lines aforesaid.
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 surveyed as aforesaid, and shall make return of said
plot together with a certificate of the courses of said road to
the clerk of Frederick county, to be recorded among the
records of said county; and when the same shall be wid-
ened, straightened, amended and made public as directed by
this act, the said road shall forever thereafter be deemed a
public highway, and shall be kept in repair as other public
roads of Frederick county; Provided, the said commission-
ers shall not lay out the said road through the buildings,
gardens, orchards or meadows of any person or persons
without their consent.
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Passed Jan.
5, 1816.
Commission-
ers—width &
direction.
Proviso.
Plot.
Proviso.
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