1810.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
CLXV.

ets in said lottery shall give their bond to the state of Maryland, in the penalty of eight thousand
dollars, conditioned that they will well and truly apply so much of the money arising therefrom,
within six months after the completion of drawing said lottery, as will satisfy the fortunate adven-
turers for prizes drawn by them, and after deducting the necessary expenses incurred in said lottery
shall, within eighteen months after the drawing of said lottery is completed, cause the said money
to be laid out and expended in opening and clearing the road from Westminster, in Frederick county,
to George-town and the city of Washington, in the best manner the sum raised will admit.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the duty of said commissioners, or such majority of
them as may act, before they act as such, to lodge such bond in the clerk's office of the court of ap-
peals of the western short; of this state, there to be recorded, and upon such bond, or upon any
office copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted against the obligors therein named, or any of
them, or their legal representatives, for any breach or non-compliance with the condition of the
same.
CHAP. CLXVI.

Passed Decem-
ber 25, 1810.

A Supplement to an Act, entitled, An Act to lay out and open a Road
from the Franklin Paper-Mill on Gwinn's Falls, in Baltimore
County, to the New Liberty Road.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That John M'Clellan and Caleb Merryman,
be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to act in conjunction with the commissioners
in fulfilling and discharging the duties assigned to them by an act to which this is a supplement.

CHAP. CLXVII.

Passed Decem-
ber 25, 1810.

An ACT to lay out and open a Road from Archibald Dysart's Ta-
vern, in Caecil County, to the Pennsylvania line, in the direction
to Lund's Tavern.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That captain John Evans, Thomas Garrett
and John Jourdan, or a majority of them, are hereby appointed commissioners to survey and
lay off a public road from Archibald Dysart's tavern, in New Munster, in Caecil county, to run
about a north-north-cast course, or in as straight a line as may be, to intersect the Pennsylvania
line in a direction to Lund's tavern, provided that the same shall not be laid out to run over the
orchard, garden, yard or meadow, or any person, without the consent of the owners thereof; pro-
vided always, that the levy court for sufficient cause may reject said plot and return, and may direct
said commissioners to return another plot of said road, and so from time to time till a plot shall be
returned which shall be approved of and confirmed by said court.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of said county, if a plot shall be returned and ap-
proved of as aforesaid, be and are hereby empowered, at the next court thereafter, to appoint an,
overseer or overseers to open and clear said road according to said plot, and to levy such sum of
money, as in the discretion of said coun shall be considered reasonable, for the purpose of clearing
and opening said road as aforesaid, and the said road, when surveyed, laid out and opened as afore-
said, shall be deemed a public road, and shall be kept in repair as other public roads in said county.
are.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners shall be entitled to receive as a com-
pensation the sum of two dollars for every day they shall attend for the discharge of the duties re-
quired of them by this act, and the said overseer or overseers shall receive the same compensation
which the overseers of public roads respectively receive, which compensation shall be respectively
levied, collected and paid, in the same manner that other county charges are.

CHAP. CLXVIII.

Passed Decem-
ber 25, 1810.

An ACT authorising the raising a sum of money to complete the
Court-House, and to erect a Watch-House, in the City of Balti-
more.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Baltimore county,
be and they are hereby authorised and required to assess and levy, upon the assessable property
of said county, in such successive annual instalments, any sum not exceeding twenty thousand dol-