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CHAPTER 132.
An act for the relief of Benjamin Pearce of Cecil county,
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Jeremiah Taylor, Thomas Biddle, sen. Josiah Alexander, Spencer
Biddle, and William Boulden, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners to ascertain the damages sustained by Benjamin
Pearce by the opening and making public the road in Cecil county
beginning at the south east corner of a tract of land called Knowl
Wood, and running with the line of the same to Elk river.
2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, or a majority
of them, shall value and ascertain the damages sustained by open-
ing said road, and return the same to the levy court at their next
sitting thereafter, and the damages so ascertained shall be levied
and assessed, as other county charges are, and shall be paid over
to the said Benjamin Pearce, or his order.
3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall be entitled
to receive as a compensation for their services, a sum not exceeding
two dollars per day, to be ascertained by the levy court, which is
hereby directed to be levied, collected and paid, as other county
charges are.
CHAPTER 133.
An act to amend the law in the cases therein mentioned.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland
That in all cases of petitions now pending, or hereafter to be in-
stituted, in any of the courts of this state, where a person or per-
sons, nonresidents of this state, are or may be a party or parties
thereto, it shall and may be lawful lor such court, upon being sa-
tisfied of such nonresidence as aforesaid, and that the process of
such court cannot be served on such party, to order and direct such
notice to be given by advertisement in the public papers, or other-
wise, as they may deem reasonable, upon consideration of all the
circumstances, warning such person or persons, nonresidents as
aforesaid, to appear by a certain day by them to be appointed, at
least three months thereafter, and on such notice being given, it
shall and may be lawful for such court, and they are hereby au-
thorised and empowered, forthwith to hold jurisdiction of the case,
and to hear and determine the same as fully and amply, to all in-
tents and purposes, as if such person or persons, nonresidents of
this state as aforesaid, had appeared thereto.
2. And be it enacted, That upon all petitions of any guardian or
prochein ami, for the sale of the real estate of any infant or in-
fants, it shall and may be lawful for the court before whom any
such petition may be pending, and they are hereby required, to is
sue a commission to not less than three discreet and sensible men,
freeholders of the county where such lands to be affected by such
petition may lie, whose duty it shall bo to view and ascertain, by
competent and disinterested evidence, the real value of the said
lands, taking into consideration the quality, local situation, im-
provements, with all the advantages, and also the disadvantages
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Passed Feb. 6, 1819
Commissioners
appointed to esti-
mate damages sus-
tained by him.
To return the
same the levy court,
&c.
Allowance to com-
missioners.
Passed Feb. 6 1819
In cases where
non-residents are
parties court to
cause notice to be
given in the pub-
lic papers for
them to appear by
a certain day, &c.
Upon petition for
sale of real estate
of infants, court
to appoint three
freeholders to as-
certain real value
of the land, &c.
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