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Dec. Ses. 1816
Plot to be re-
turned.
Road to be sold
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Road, when
opened to be
public.
Damage to be
ascertained.
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ville, to the north end of said street, and thence of the width of
Washington-street north 35 degrees west, to intersect the Frede-
rick-Town road north of the said town of Rockville.
2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commis-
sioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, when they have laid off
and surveyed the said roads, to return a plot with a certificate of
the courses, to the clerk of Montgomery county court, to be re-
corded, whose duty it shall be to receive and record the same
among the records of Montgomery county.
3. And be it enacted, That the road running through the lots of
the said town of Rockville shall, when the provisions of this act
are carried into effect, cease to be a public road, and the road
running through the said lots shall become the property of the
holders of the said lots respectively; and that part of the road
north of the said town to the place where the new road shall in-
tersect the old road, shall cease to be a public road; and the
commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, are hereby au-
thorised and directed, to sell at public, sale for cash, to the highest
bidder, the old road north of the aforesaid town of Rockville,
until it intersects the new road, and make a conveyance thereof
to the purchaser by deed, which deed shall be a good title in fee
simple to the said purchaser; and the money arising from said
sale be applied to defraying the expenses of opening the new
road,
4. And be it enacted. That when the aforesaid road shall have
been opened as aforesaid, the same shall thereafter be deemed
and used as a public highway for ever, and shall be kept in repair
as other public roads and highways of Montgomery county now
are.
4. And whereas the said road when opened will pass through
the ground of Honore Martin, and separate a small corner of
the south west end of the same; therefore, Be it enacted, That
the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, value and
ascertain the damage the said Honore Martin may sustain in
consequence of the alteration of the said road, and all the ex-
penses in the surveying, laying off, and opening of the aforesaid
road, with the damages ascertained by the commissioners sus-
tained by the said Honore Martin, shall be defrayed by the sale
of the old road north of the said town of Rockville, and if that
is not sufficient, the deficiency to be paid by the petitioners, or
by the persons who may be interested therein, otherwise this law
to have no effect,
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Passed Jan. 1,
1817.
Fees to be levi-
ed.
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CHAPTER 29.
An act securing to the Sheriff of Baltimore County the
Gaol Fees of certain Insolvent Debtors.
Sec, 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the prison fees hereafter payable by law to the present or
any future sheriff of Baltimore county, from any insolvent debtor
released from confinement in the gaol of said county, it: pursuance
of the act of assembly, entitled, An act for the relief of insolvent
debtors, passed in the year 1774, and which shall not have been
paid, or secured to be paid, to such sheriff, shall be levied and
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