88

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Sess
1815.

Pennsylva-
nia to concur.

ting the said road, and also to pay the damages as returned by
said commissioners, and to levy such sum of money as may be
necessary for the same.
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commission
aforesaid shall have no power to carry the provisions of this
act into effect until the citizens of Pennsylvania agree and ac-
tually locate and open a similar road from Green Castle to the
Pennsylvania line in as straight a direction as the nature of the
ground will admit of towards Hager's Town to intersect said
road.

Passed Jan.

15, 1816.

Road may
be extended.

CHAPTER 88.
A supplement to an act to incorporate, a company to make
a turnpike road from the turnpike, near Westminster in
Taney Town, thence with the 'main street through Em-
mitsburgh to Troup's tavern.

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the president and managers of the Westmin-
ster, Taney Town and Emmitsburgh turnpike road shall have
power to extend the said turnpike road from Troup's tavern in
Emmitsburgh to the Pennsylvania line, at such point as they
shall agree upon, as the most proper point, in the same manner
and under the same regulations directed by the law to which
this is a supplement; and the president and managers of said
turnpike road shall have power to appoint live commissioner ,
who shall value the damages, and do all other things, touching
the extension of the said turnpike road directed to be done by
the act to which this is a supplement.

Passed Jan.
15, 1816.

Commission-
ers—plot.

.

Vacancies.

CHAPTER 89.

An act to lay out and open a road from George Shafer's
to the new cut road leading from Frederick-Town to
Hughe's coaling ground.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the levy court of Frederick county are hereby
authorised and empowered, to appoint five commissioners not
interested, who or a majority of them shall survey lay out and
open, at the expence of the petitioners or other persons inter-
ested therein, a road not exceeding thirty feel in width, in the
best and straightest direction, taking all circumstances into
consideration, from George Shafer's to Bartgis's paper mill,
thence to Brown's on the west side of the Catoctin mountain,
and thence by Delanter's mill, to intersect the new cut road
from Fredericktown to Hughe's coaling ground, and the said
commissioners shall make out a plot of said road and return
the same to the clerk of the county, to be recorded among the
records of said county; and the road when so opened at the ex-
pence of the petitioners or others interested therein and the
valuation hereafter directed to be made shall be paid or secured
to be paid to the individuals concerned, shall be thereafter
deemed to be a public road forever, and shall be kept in repair
in the same manner as other public roads are directed to be
kept in said county.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of death, re-
signation, disqualification or refusal to act of any of the com-
missioners aforesaid, the remaining commissioners or a majori-
ty shall and they are hereby authorised and directed to fill up
such vacancy or vacancies.