XXI.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That the collection of the aforesaid taxes may be anticipated, by
permitting the supervisor oe supervisors, if expedient, to accept of labour in lieu thereof at the customary
rate of labour for the time, which supervisor or supervisors shall issue certificates to those by
whom such labour may be rendered, expressing therein, in writing, the duration or time of such
labour, the rate thereof by the day, by whom and for whose account the same was rendered, and the
whole account or value thereof, to be received in taxes by the collector of said county, in discharge
of monies due or owing for this particular tax.

    XXII.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That where any person or persons have erected, or shall erect, in
the county aforesaid, any mill or mills on any branch or rum where any public road crosses, or shall
cross, and have erected, or shall erect, any dam for such mill or mills, such person or persons, or
the owner, possessor or occupier, of such mill or mills, shall be and they are hereby obliged to make 
the top of the said dam twelve feet wide at the least, and make good and substantial bridges over the
waste and race of the said mills and dams twelve feet wide, and the same keep in good repair; and
if the owner or owners, possessor or occupier, of any such mill or mills, shall refuse or neglect to do
what is by this act required, and shall be thereof legally convicted, he, she or they, shall forfeit and
pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars for each neglect of offence, to be recovered and applied as
aforesaid.

    XXIII.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That where any damages shall be allowed to any person or persons
for opening any public road through his, her or their land, the payment shall not be made until the
road be actually laid out and opened.

    XXIV.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That no supervisor shall proceed to work on any public road with
a less number of able bodied labourers than eight, unless it be for removing some fallen trees, or
other obstruction, on forfeiture of his wages for the time that a less number shall be employed, to be
deducted out of his allowance by the levy court.

    XXV.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of the levy court aforesaid shall have full power
to contract with any person or persons for the opening or clearing any road hereafter laid out in
Kent county, and for the improving and keeping in repair any road, or such part thereof as, in their
judgment, shall seem most adviseable 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 repair as it is the duty of the supervisors by law to do, then such person or
persons, so contracting, shall be subject to the same penalties as supervisors of public roads in Kent
county in like cases are, to be recovered and applied in the same manner; and every person or persons
so contracting with the justices of the levy court for Kent county shall give bond to the state of Maryland,
with such security as the justices of the levy court shall approve of, and in such sum or
penalty as they shall require for the performance of such contract, and such contractors shall have
and exercise all the powers which supervisors of public roads in Kent county may have by virtue of 
this act, except the powers given to supervisors by the eighteenth section of this act.

    XXVI.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That the act passed at November session, seventeen hundred and
ninety-nine, entitled, An act relating to the public roads in Kent county, be and the same is hereby
repealed.

    XXVII.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall continue and be in force for two years, and
to the end of the next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter.