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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1816.
Proviso.

Trustee's al-
lowance.

disposal thereof, at which times the same shall be transferred
and paid over to them in their respective proportions; Provided,
that in case of the death of any of the said heirs, before they
shall have attained such age, their share or part of the funds
arising from the sale aforesaid, shall pass or descend in such
manner as their interest in the said property would have done
had not this law have been passed.
5. And be it enacted, That the said trustee shall be entitled
to such sum or sums of money for his services and trouble that
he may necessarily be put to in performance of the duties required
by him to be done under this act, as the orphans court of Caro-
line county shall think proper to allow him.

Passed Jan. 27.
Preamble.

New comm'rs
appointed.

CHAPTER 122.

A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to lay out and
open a Road in Harford County.
Whereas by an act of assembly passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and fifteen, Thomas Hope, Daniel Thompson
and James St. Clair, were appointed commissioners to lay out
and open a road in Harford county, from George Carien's bars,
on the Coop-Town road, to the road leading from Slade's mill
to the city of Baltimore, and two of the said commissioners hav-
ing died before the performance of the duties required of them,
Therefore,
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Samuel Reed and Thomas Hope, of Thomas, be, and they
are hereby appointed commissioners to fill the vacancies so occa-
sioned, and, together with the said James St. Clair, to lay out
and open the said road as prescribed by the act to which this is
a supplement.

Passed Jan 27.

Commissioners
appointed to
lay out town.

CHAPTER 123.

An act to lay out a Town to be called Middle-Town, in
Prince-George's County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That John S. Magruder, John Darnall, Nathan Summers, Ben-
jamin Duvall, of Elisha, and Henry Dodson, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners, who, or a majority of whom,
shall on or before the first day of July next, meet at the Long
Old Fields in said county, and having so met, the said commissi-
oners, or a majority of them, shall have power and authority to
direct the surveyor of said county, or any other person they may
think proper to appoint, there to survey, lay out and locate, a
town, to be called Middle-Town; to make out an exact plot
thereof and ascertain and limit the extent of the lots, streets,
and lanes thereof, in the manner to be directed by the said com-
missioners; and the said lots, when so laid out, shall be num-
bered by the commissioners one, two, three, and so on, for dis-
tinguishing each lot from the other; and they shall cause the
said streets and lanes to be named by certain names; and the
said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall nave- power to
adjourn from time to time, till the duties imposed by this act are
fully performed.