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CHAP. XCIII.

Passed Jan 26, 1814 An Act to open a Road from John Cain's Tavern to Berlin, in Frederick County. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 107. 1.

Be It Enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

Patrick Magill, Grafton Duvall, Benjamin West, James S. Hook and Theodore Beali_,_be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they,

or a majority of them,

commissioners,

to

lay

out

are hereby authorized

and

open,

at

the

[sic],

expense of

as the

petitioners for said road, or such of them as may be willing to contribute thereto, a road not exceeding thirty feet in width, beginning at or opposite the tavern of John Cain, on the main Harper's Ferry road, from thence passing between the lands of Abraham

Easterday and

Perry

Hilleary,

thence

along

the lane

dividing the lands of George Dutterow and Theordore Mitchell, to Benjamin Rice's merchant and saw mills, thence through the lands of Thomas Hawkins, by the widow Nyswonger's to Thomas Frazier's, and along his land as now established to James Fenley's spring, thence to the mouth of the lane dividing the land of Roger Nelson and Tobias Belt, thence as the road now runs to Berlin on the river Potomac; provided, that the said road shall not be laid out through any building,

orchard, garden, yard or meadow,

of any person,

without his or her consent in writing first had and obtained. (Commissioners appointed to lay out road with a Proviso.)