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BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Walter
Dyson, Charles K. Love,
and Luke White Barber be, and they are
hereby ap-
pointed commissioners; and they, or a majority
of
them are hereby authorised and empowered to re-
view the
old private road beginning at the road leading
from Newport to
Chaptico, near Dr. Wilson Comp-
ton's, in Charles county, and
passing thence through
the lands of Wilson Compton, Edward Diment
and
others, until it intersects the divisional line of
Charles
and Saint Mary's counties, and thence until it falls
into
a road leading from Chaptico to Charlotte Hall near
the
dwelling of Gerard Hayden; and to lay out, sur-
vey, mark and
bound the same, not exceeding twen-
ty feet in width; and to
make a plot of the said road
when laid out, surveyed, marked and
bounded, and re-
turn, the same under their hands and seals; one
copy of
such plot to. the clerk of Charles county, and one
other
copy to the clerk of Saint Mary's county, to be by
them
recorded among the land records of the said counties,
and
the said road, when so laid out, shall be, and the
same is hereby
declared a public highway; and the
levy courts of Charles and
Saint Mary's counties, at
any meeting after the said plot shall
have been record-
ed, are hereby authorised and empowered to
appoint
an overseer or overseers to keep their respective por-
tions of said road in repair, as other public roads are
kept
in repair in said counties; and the said levy
courts are hereby
further authorised and empowered
to levy and assess upon the
assessable property of said
counties, at the time of laying the
next county levy,
such sum or sums of money as each of said
levy
courts may think sufficient to pay the expense of
opening
the parts of said road lying in their respec-
tive counties.
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Commissioners
appointed, who
are empowered
to lay out,
sur-
vey, ma i k and
bound a certain
road its width,
A
plot shall be
returned to
the clerk of
each county.
Levy
courts au-
thorised to ap-
point overseers,
and may
levy
the expenses
on their respec-
tive counties.
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AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commis
sioners, or a majority
of them, shall ascertain and value
the damages which any person
or person may sustain,
through whose land the said road may pass,
by open-
ing and clearing the same; and shall make and re-
turn to the levy courts of Charles and Saint Mary's
counties,
a certificate of such valuation of damages
(if any) sustained, as
aforesaid, in their respective coun-
ties; and the levy court of
each or either of said
counties (as the case may be, ) shall levy
upon the as-
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Commissioners
shall ascertain
damages and re-
turn
certificates
to the respec-
tive levy courts.
Damages to
be
levied on the
respective coun-
ties.
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