SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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is a supplement, to take out and procure the same on the first of

August in each and every year; or it may be lawful to take out the
same at any intermediate time between the said first day of August
and the meeting of the county court of the county where the said li-
cense is to be obtained, or at the said next county court; and in all
such cases, the clerk shall, and he is hereby directed to charge said
license as commencing on the said first day of August preceding,
or from the time said applicant commenced selling.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

4. And be it enacted, That the county clerks of or in each

county, shall furnish the grand jury annually at the first term after

August in each and every year, with a list of all such persons as ob-
tain a license under this act, or the original one to which it is a sup-
plement.

Clerks to fur-
nish a list.

chapter 247.
An act to lay out and make public a road leading from Bean town in
Charles county, till it intersects the dividing line between Prince
George's and said county, near Ignatius Gardiner's gate.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Ignatius Gardiner, Francis L. Mudd, Henry W. Hardy, Wil-
liam P. Ford and James M. Murray, be, and they are hereby ap-
pointed commissioners to survey and lay out a road in Charles
county, beginning at Bean Town in said county, thence in a straight
direction till it intersects the dividing line between Prince George's
and Charles counties, near Ignatius Gardiner's gate, not exceeding

Passed Feb. 23,
1822.

Commission-
ers to lay out.

thirty feet in width: Provided, that the said road shall not pass
through the buildings, yards, gardens or orchards of any person,
without the consent of the owner or owners thereof.

Proviso.

2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall
cause plots and certificates of the said road, when so surveyed and

laid out, to be made and returned to the levy court of Charles coun-
ty, at their next sitting thereafter, whereupon it shall be their duty
to levy upon the assessable property of said county, a sum of money
such as they shall deem necessary; and the levy court of said county
shall appoint overseers to open and clear said road agreeably to the
plot and certificate aforesaid; and the said road, when opened and
cleared as aforesaid, shall be and the same is hereby declared to be
forever thereafter a public road, and shall be kept in repair as other
public roads in said county.

Plots &c.—

cost—over-
seers.

3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, or a ma-
jority of them, shall value and ascertain the damages (if any) sus-

tained by persons through whose lands the said road may pass, tak-
ing into consideration the advantages and disadvantages attending
the same; and the said damages when so ascertained, shall be levied
and assessed as other county charges are, and paid over to the per-
sons respectively so as aforesaid injured.

Damages—to

be levied.

4. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall be
entitled to receive a compensation for their attendance and services '
in discharge of their duties as herein prescribed, not exceeding
------------dollars a day, to be ascertained by the levy court of
Charles county, and levied, collected and paid as other county
charges are.

Compensa-
tion.