SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1820.

the same, without leave of the owner or owners first being ob-
tained.
9. And be it enacted, That the said supervisors shall and they
are hereby required, before they begin to straighten, amend or
repair, any road within their several and respective districts, or
to make or repair any bridge or causeway, to give notice, by ad-
vertisement set up at the most convenient public and frequented
places in such district, in order that the said inhabitants may-
have an opportunity of hiring labourers to the said supervisor,
or labour themselves in and upon the said roads, bridges or cause-
ways, and each supervisor shall be allowed such sum, not exceed-
ing one dollar and fifty cents, for every day, for his labour, trou-
ble and expense, in supervising the making, mending, widening
or repairing, the said roads, bridges or causeways, as shall be
deemed reasonable and proper by the levy court.

CHAP. 110.

Before they begin
to mend roads to
give notice, &c.

10. And be it enacted. That the levy courts aforesaid may and

shall call upon the collector or collectors for all monies levied
and assessed for the use of the said roads, as soon as the same
are payable by law to the said levy courts, and in case of neglect
or refusal in the said collectors to settle and pay the same, the
said levy courts shall and they are hereby authorised, directed
and required, within two months thereafter, to issue an execution
against the said collector or collectors, out of the county court,
for the sum of money so due from the said collector or collectors,
and shall have all the legal benefits and privileges usually attend-
ing executions issued in behalf of the state of Maryland, and the
said levy courts shall also liquidate and settle the accounts of all
the supervisors within their county annually at their levy courts,
and the said levy courts shall keep a fair record of all their pro-
ceedings relative to the public roads.

Levy courts may
call upon collec-
tors for monies le-
vied, &c.

11. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons shall alter
or change, or in any manner obstruct or encroach upon, any of
the said roads, or any part or parts thereof, or cut down, destroy
or injure, any of the bridges, causeways, boundaries, marks or
directions, therein or thereon, such person or persons being there-
of convicted in the county court, shall be fined at the discretion
of the court for each and every such offence, in any sum not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars, according to the nature and degree
of the offence, and all fines imposed in such cases shall be appro-
priated to the purpose of repairing such damages, and improving
the roads in the county where the offence is committed, and shall
be paid to, and accounted for by, the supervisor of the district
wherein such damages shall be sustained.

Penalty for alter-

ing, &c roads.

12. And be it enacted, That the levy courts, or a majority of
them, of said counties, shall have full power to contract with any
person or persons for the opening or clearing any road hereafter
laid out, or to be laid out in their respective counties, and for the
improving and keeping in repair any road, or such parts thereof,
and for such length of time during the existence of this law, as
in their judgment shall seem most advisable, and for the interest
of the county, and where any person or persons shall contract for
the keeping in repair of any public road in virtue of this act, and
shall neglect to keep the same in such repairs as it is in the duty of
the supervisors by law to do, then such person or persons so con-

Levy courts may
contract for open-
ing roads.