398 Assembly Proceedings, March 23-April 19, 1774.

Liber R. G.
1774

said Work or to contract with others to do the work aforesaid on
Convenient Parts of the said Roads and the Supervisors of the re-
spective districts aforesaid or any two of them are also impowered
at any Time or Times before the first day of January next to draw
their order or orders on the Commissioners for emiting Bills of
Credit for the Money hereinbefore directed to be expended, in their
respective District or such part thereof as may be necessary and the
same to dispose of and expend in and towards the necessary expences
of the work aforesaid and the Commissioners aforesaid shall pay the
same and therewith Charge the County to which the same shall
be so lent

[And may
use such
Timber, &c.
in the same
Manner as
Overseers
of public
Roads.]

And be it Enacted that the supervisors aforesaid or any of them
or any Person Contracting with them or any two of them or by them
or any two of them in any Manner employed in or for doing the said
Work may respectively use such Timber and Materials in and for
doing the said work as overseers of Public Roads or Highways may
or might by Law Use the same and if any Supervisor or any Person
contracting with them or any two of them or by them or any two
of them in any Manner employed in and for doing the said Work
shall be fined or impleaded for anything done in pursuance of this
Act he may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special
Matter in Evidence in Justification —

[In Case of
the Death of
Supervisors,
or Refusal
to act. others
to be ap-
pointed.]

And be it further enacted That if any one of the said Supervisors
shall happen to die before the work aforesaid shall be accomplish
or shall refuse to Act the two other Supervisors of the Same district
shall and may appoint another person in his Stead and if the Super-
visors for any District or any two of them shall refuse to Act Then
any three of the Justices of the Peace for the County in which such
District shall be shall and may by Warrant under their hands and

[Supervisors
to render to
the General
Assembly
Accounts of
Monies
expended.]
p. 346c
[Sheriffs to
collect in
Anne-
Arundel
4 lb. in
Baltimore
12 lb. & in
Frederick
Counties,
8 lb. of
Tobacco,
yearly, from
each of the
taxable In-
habitants
of their
respective
Counties;]

Seals appoint three or two other persons as the Case may require
in their Stead
And be it also enacted that the Supervisors aforesaid shall render
to the General Assembly at the Session next after the Expenditure
of any of the said Monies and also to the County Court which shall
be held for their respective County a True full and fair Account of
all Monies by them respectively laid out and Expended by Virtue
of this Act and to whom and for what the same shall have been
paid and Expended
and for the Repayment of the said Bills of Credit so to be lent
and issued to the said Counties together with Interest thereon at
the Rate of four Per Cent by the Year Be it enacted that each and
every of the Taxable Inhabitants of the said Counties respectively
shall untill the whole of the Bills of Credit so to be lent and issued to
their said respective County with Interest thereon as aforesaid and
also the Sherriffs Salary of five Per Cent for Collection thereof are
fully raised on the same Taxables Yearly and every Year pay to the