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Reverde Johnson, John Hodges, of Thomas, Benjamin Brookes,
Benjamin Lee, George Wilkinson, Thomas R. Hodges, Gustavus
R. Brown, Thomas Sparrow, Basil Rowling, Philemon Chew,
Henry Waring, Edward Harwood, Samuel Sprigg, Robert W.
Bowie, Francis M. Halt, William D. Clagett, Jonathan N.
Burch, William Wootton, George Semmes, Clement Brook,
William B. Beanes, William A. Hall, James Somervell, John
Contee, John Hill, Fielder Gantt, Aloyeseus M. Keegan, Hen-
ry H. Chapman, John H. Brown, Thomas Brook, Benjamin
Young, Benjamin H. Clarke, Charles H. W. Wharton, Frede-
rick D. Stone and Augustus Taney, be, and they are hereby de-
clared to be, a body politic and corporate, by the name and style
of The President and Council of the Philomanthanean Society of
Upper Marlborough, and by that name shall have perpetual suc-
cession, 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 severally to do
and perform all things relative to the management of said soci-
ety.
2. And be it enacted, That, it shall be lawful for the president
and council of the said society, to take, receive and hold, for the
use of the said society, any property, real or personal: Pro-
vided, the yearly value of all such properly shall not exceed the
annual value of three thousand dollars.
3. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said society
to make such rules and by-laws for the well governing the affairs
of said society, provided the same be not contrary to the laws of
this state or the United States.
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Dec. Ses. 1816
May hold pro-
perty.
Proviso.
Make rules &
by-laws.
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CHAPTER 147.
An act to lay out and make public a Road in Montgome-
ry County.
Whereas it is represented to this general assembly, by the
petition of sundry inhabitants of Montgomery count)', that it
would greatly conduce to their convenience to have, opened and.
made public a load therein mentioned; and the prayer of the pe-
titioners being reasonable, Therefore,
Sec. 1. He it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That William Carroll, William Culver, Edward Harding, Ro-
bert Edmondson and Henry Harding, be and they are hereby ap-
pointed commissioners, and they, or a majority of them, are
hereby authorised and empowered, to lay out and open, at the
expense of the petitioners, or any person or persons who may
think proper to contribute thereto, a road not exceeding thirty
feet in width, leading from Calville to intersect the main road
from Brookville to George-Town and Washington; and the said
road, when laid out and opened, and the valuation hereinafter
directed to be made shall have taken place, and a plot thereof
made out and returned to the clerk of Montgomery county, to be.
by him recorded among the records of said county, shall for
ever thereafter be deemed a public road, and shall be kept in
repair as other public roads in said county.
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Passed Jan. 29
Preamble.
Road to be laid
out—plot to be
returned.
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