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Dec. Ses. 1816,
50,000 dollars
to be raised,
Subscriptions.
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those managers who shall undertake to discharge the several du-
ties to them assigned, or any five of them, shall have the power
to fill all such vacancies as shall from time to time arise in man-
ner aforesaid, until the duties shall he performed.
2. And be it enacted, That the sum to he raised by the scheme
of a lottery mentioned in the said act. shall he extended to fifty
thousand dollars, and it shall be lawful for the said corporation
to sell or dispose, of the said tickets or scheme of the lottery
aforesaid, within the city and precincts of Baltimore, or else-
where.
3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, or any
five of them, shall have power to appoint the periods and places
necessary for receiving subscriptions under the act to which this
is a supplement.
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Passed Feb. 5.
Road to be laid
out.
Plot and certi-
ficate to be
lodged in
clerk's office.
Damages to be
valued.
Road not to be
made until pay-
ment of dama-
ges.
Oath.
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CHAPTER 270.
An act to lay out and make public a Road in Dorchester
County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Doctor Clement Stanford, Doctor William Jackson, and
William Shearman, be and they are hereby authorised and re-
quired to survey, lay out and open, a road not exceeding thirty
feet in width, from Chickone gate, in Dorchester county,
through the Indian-Town, down to the Walnut landing, in the
said county; Provided that the said road shall not pass through
the buildings, yards, gardens or orchards, of any person or per-
sons, without the consent of the owner or owners thereof.
2. And be it enacted, That the, commissioners aforesaid shall
cause a plot and certificate of the said road so surveyed, laid out
and opened, to he lodged in the office of the clerk of Dorchester
county, on or before the first Monday in June next, to be laid be-
fore the levy court of said county, and if the said court in their
opinion shall consider the same to be advantageous to the public,
the clerk of the, county shall record the said road, and then and
in that case the said road shall be deemed a public highway, and
kept in repair as other public roads in said county are.
: 3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall value
and ascertain the damages that may be sustained by any person
or persons through whose lands the said road may pass, and the.
damages so ascertained shall be paid by those persons only who
are willing to contribute thereto.
: 4. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall not
[ proceed to open and make the said road until the damages to bo
ascertained by this act shall have been paid.
5. And be it enacted, That the persons herein appointed, before
they proceed to ascertain the damages aforesaid, shall take an
oath, or affirmation, before some justice of the peace, that they
will without favour, partiality or prejudice, assess the damages
sustained as aforesaid by reason of opening the said road.
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