CHARLES RIDGELY, (OP HAMPT.) ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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debts in such securities, public stock, or current money, as may
be agreed upon by the said agent, under the direction of the go-
vernor and council as aforesaid.

Dec. Ses. 1816

CHAPTER 102.

An act to extend the powers of the Levy Court of Wash-
ington County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the levy court, of Washington county are hereby authorised
and empowered, to allow to the supervisors of the public roads
such additional compensation for their services in superintending
the working of said roads, and for settling their accounts, as to
said levy court may seem reasonable and right; and said levy
court may also allow to labourers, to be hereafter employed by
the supervisors as aforesaid, any sum not exceeding one dollar
per day, for each day they may bo employed in working on said
roads.

Passed Jan. 20.

Additional al-
lowance to su-
pervisors.

CHAPTER 103.

A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act for opening and
extending Saint-Paul's Street in the City and Precincts
of Baltimore.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the collector of taxes for the city of Baltimore be and he
is hereby authorised and required, to collect and pay over to the
persons entitled, all sums of money, principal and interest, re-
maining unpaid after the first day of March next, which have
been assessed as damages under and in pursuance of the act, en-
titled, An act for opening and extending Saint Paul's street in
the city and precincts of Baltimore, with the like authority to
enforce the said collection as is provided for the collection of the
taxes of the. said city, and as a compensation for this service the
said collector shall be entitled to seven and a half per centum
on the amount collected, to be added to the sums assessed as
aforesaid.

Passed Jan. 21.

Money to be
collected.

CHAPTER 104.

An additional supplement to the act, entitled, An act for
the relief of the Poor of Washington County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the office of the present trustees of the poor of Washington
county shall cease and be at an end on the first Monday of June
next, and the appointment of the trustees of the poor of said coun-
ty shall, from and after the first Monday of May next, be vested
in the levy court of said county.
2. And be it enacted, That the levy court of Washington coun-
ty shall be. and they are hereby authorised and required, at their
first meeting in May next, and at their first meeting in the month
of May in each succeeding year thereafter, to appoint three dis-
creet and proper persons qualified agreeably to the. provisions of
the original act and the supplement thereto, and of this act, to tin
trustees of the poor of said county from and after the first
Monday of June next.

Passed Jan. 10

Powers of pre-
sent trustees
to cease.

Levy court to
appoint trus-
tees.