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2. And be it enacted, That, the said lots, when they are survey-
ed and laid out by the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority
of them, shall be and are hereby erected into a town, to be
called and known by the name of Middle-Town; and the said
commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby directed to re-
turn a correct certificate and plot of the said lots to the clerk of
Prince-George's county court, who is hereby required to record
the same among the land records of said county, and keep the
original certificate and plot in his office, and a certified copy of
the original or record, or any part thereof, shall be conclusive
evidence as to the bounds and lines of the said town and the
lots thereof.
3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the proprie-
tors of the lots, or any part of a lot in the said town, to provide
boundary stones, and to have them marked and set up at the
termination of the line or lines of their respective lots, in the
presence of the said commissioners, or a majority of them, which
shall thereafter be deemed and taken to be the true bounds of
the said lots, or any of them.
4. And be it enacted, That if any of the commissioners shall
die, refuse, neglect, or be rendered incapable to act, the remain-
ing commissioner or commissioners may appoint some other per-
son or persons in the place or places of the person or persons
who shall so die, refuse, neglect, or be incapable to act.
5. And be it enacted, That all expenses incurred in the executi-
on of this act shall be paid by the proprietors in the proporti-
ons to the number of lots they may severally own or possess.
6. And be it enacted, That before any commissioner or survey-
or shall proceed to the execution of the duties required of them
by this act, he shall take an oath, or affirmation, as the case may
be, before some justice of the peace for the county aforesaid, that
he will well and truly discharge the duties enjoined upon him by
this act, according to the best of his judgment, without favour,
affection or partiality.
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Dec. Ses. 1816
Plot to he re-
recorded.
Boundary
stones to be
fixed.
Vacancies to be
filled.
Expenses to be
paid by owners
of lots.
Oath.
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CHAPTER 124.
An act to repeal the Act, entitled, An act to lay out and
make public a Road in Cecil County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the act, entitled. An act to lay out and make public a road
in Cecil county, passed at December session eighteen hundred
and fourteen, chapter 46, and the supplement thereto, be and
the same is hereby repealed.
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Passed Jan. 27
Acts repealed.
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CHAPTER 125.
An act to authorise the raising a sum of money by Lottery,
to aid in erecting a Church in Charles County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Samuel Hanson, senior, William Vincent. Thomas A. Da-
vis, John Matthews, Samuel Chapman and John Weems, are
hereby appointed managers, and they, or a majority of them,
are authorised to raise by way of lottery or lotteries, a sum of
money not exceeding twenty thousand dollars over and above
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Passed Jan. 27.
Managers ap-
pointed—sum
to be raised,
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