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Dec. Ses. 1817.
Tolls--Mills,
&c.
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in the same, and also the consent of the owners of the land through
which such canal shall pass, or if such consent cannot be had, and
it be necessary that the said canal should pass through the lands
of any person refusing his consent as aforesaid, then the damages
to be paid by the company aforesaid shall be assessed by a jury
to be summoned and empannelled by the sheriff of the county in
which the canal, stream, or other water, is situate as aforesaid,
and upon application to the sheriff of said county by the president
and directors aforesaid, it shall be his duty to summon a jury of
twelve persons, qualified as jurors of the county court, giving them,
and also the owners of the land, stream or water to be assessed, at
least eight days previous notice of the time and place of the jury
being empannelled; and upon the president and directors paying to
the owner of the land, stream or water, the sum so awarded by the
jury aforesaid, they shall have power to cut, dig, and make the ca-
nal as aforesaid, through such land, stream or water, in the same
manner as if the consent of the owner had been given thereto; and
the said president and directors shall have full power and authority
to make and dig such canal along, under, and across any public
highway, for the purpose of conducting and conveying said water,
and for such purpose to dig, break up and open, at their own ex-
pense, all or any part of such highways, leaving at all times a suf-
ficient passage way for carriages, horses and foot passengers, and
restoring forthwith all such highways to a good, perfect, and easy
passage for horses, carriages and foot passengers, by good, substan-
tial, and sufficient bridges, over and across said canal, where it may
intersect, cross or interfere with them.
11. And be it enacted, That the president and director! aforesaid
be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to impose rea-
sonable tolls on all persons navigating or transporting any thing
along and upon said canal; to use the water of said canal for the
purpose of erecting mills, manufactures or machinery of any de-
scription, or for any purpose whatever; always first obtaining the
consent of all and every person interested in the lands upon which
any such mill, manufacture or machinery, may be; and the privi-
leges above granted in whole, or in part, to sell and dispose of to
any person or persons, bodies politic and corporate.
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Passed Feb 14
Time extended
for collection
Before execut-
ing to deliver
account.
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CHAPTER 201.
An act authorising Marsham Parker late Sheriff, and Aquil-
la G. Bowen, late Collector, of Calvert County, to com-
plete their Collections.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Marsham Parker late sheriff, and A. G. Bowen late collector, of
Calvert county, be and they are hereby authorised and empowered,
to collect until the first day of January eighteen hundred and nine-
teen, all balances due them as sheriff and collector of Calvert coun-
ty, in the same manner as they could or might have done within
the time limited by law, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said Mar-
sham Parker and Aquilla G. Bowen, before they proceed to exe-
cute any person or persons for public dues or fees in virtue of this
act, to deliver to such person or persons chargeable with the same,
at least thirty days previous to levying such execution, an account,
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