United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 21
Chap. XXI.—An Act to make public a Road in Washington County, in the District of Columbia.
Road to the lower eastern branch bridge to be opened and kept in repair.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the road heretofore opened by the consent of the owners of the land over which the same passed, from the line of the district of Columbia, through the land of John Masters and John L. Nayler, to the lower bridge over the eastern branch of Potomac river, shall be, and is hereby declared to be a public highway; and shall be kept in repair, as other public roads in Washington county, in the district of Columbia, are kept in repair.
Commissioners to be appointed by the levy court of Washington to lay out the road, and make return to the clerk of Washington county.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That three commissioners to be mutually appointed by the levy court of the county of Washington, in the district of Columbia, and the proprietors of the land over which the said road does or may pass or be laid out, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized and empowered to review the said road, and to cause the same to be surveyed and laid out, not exceeding thirty feet in width, and to cause a plot to be made thereof, and return the same, under their hands and seals, to the clerk of Washington county, to be by him recorded among the land records of said county.
Damages to be ascertained by them to be paid by the county.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall ascertain and value the damage which any person, through whose land the said road passes, may sustain, by making the said road a public highway, and shall return to the levy court of Washington county a certificate of such valuation, the amount of which shall be levied by said court on the assessable property of said county and the city of Washington, and paid over to the person or persons entitled to receive the same.
Approved, March 30, 1810.