Acts. 657

Justices are by this Act also impowered and required, as soon as con-
veniently may be, to contract and agree with some proper Person or
Persons for the undertaking and performing the Work, and to take
a Bond from such Contractor or Undertaker, with good Security, in
a sufficient Penalty, at the Discretion of the said Justices, payable
unto the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, and conditioned
for the well and sufficient making the said Road or Causeway, and
compleating and finishing the said Work, in such Manner as herein
before directed.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And be it further Enacted, That when the said Road or Causeway
shall be so made, compleated, and finished, as aforesaid, the Jus-
tices aforesaid are directed and required to appoint a proper Person
Overseer of the same, with a sufficient Number of the Inhabitants
next adjacent, under his Direction to keep, take care of, and by
their own Labour maintain, support, and keep the said Road or
Causeway in good Repair, in the same Manner that other Roads are
or ought to be kept, without any further Tax upon the said County,
under the like Pains and Penalties on such Overseer, and the People
under him, for Neglect or Omission of their respective Duties,
as directed and appointed by the Laws now in Force relating to other
Public Roads or Highways; any Thing in this or any other Act to
the contrary notwithstanding.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That an

[Justices to
order the
same to be
kept in
Repair.]

Act, entituled, An Act impowering the Justices of Somerset County
to levy not exceeding Twenty Thousand Pounds of Tobacco upon
the taxable Inhabitants of the said County, for the Use therein men-
tioned, made and passed at a Session of Assembly, begun and held
at the City of Annapolis on Monday the Twenty-third Day of Feb-
ruary, in the Fifth Year of the Dominion, &c. Anno Domini One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-six, be, and is hereby utterly
Repealed and made Void.

[An Act
of 1756,
Repealed.]

8.^th Oct.^r 1756 On behalf of the Right 8 October 1756
Read and assented to Honourable the Lord Read and assented to
by the Lower house of Proprietary of this Prov- by the upper house of
assembly ince I will this be a Law assembly
Signed p order Hor.^o Sharpe Signed p Order
MMacnemara Cl lo ho. JRoss Cl Up Ho.

The Great Seal
in Wax append.^t

No. 3 An Act for the Relief of sundry of the Inhabitants of Charles County.

Whereas by a most extraordinary Hurricane, happening on the
Twentieth Day of June last, Piles's Warehouse in Charles County,
then having a considerable Quantity of Inspected Tobacco therein,
was blown down, by which said Accident the said Tobacco, or Part
thereof, hath been much damaged, and that it would prove a great

p. 298
[Preamble.]