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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

KEEPING THE STREETS, LANES, ALLEYS AND THOROUGH-
FARES IN ORDER.

Repairing
streets, lanes,
alleys, etc.

Able-bodied
male persons
to work
certain time

each year.

73. The year for ordering and repairing the streets, lanes,
alleys and thoroughfares of said town shall be reckoned from
the first day of May, inclusive, in one year, to the first day of
May, exclusive, in the next year. Every able-bodied male
person between the age of twenty and fifty years, who has
resided in said town four months, shall be bound to work on
said streets, lanes, alleys and thoroughfares for two days in
every year, as the year is herein defined, and if any person
who is liable to render fails to attend as directed on notice
from the chief bailiff or a sub-bailiff, or who appears and fails
or refuses to work and render service as by the person or per-

Penalty
for violation.

sons supervising the work he is required and instructed, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before
a justice of the peace, or in the Circuit Court, such person shall
be fined one dollar, and shall be adjudged to pay the costs
and to stand committed till fine and costs are paid, and he
shall be bound to render proper service.

List of persons
liable to
render service

At or about New Year in each year, beginning with the
year 1901, the Town Clerk, with the aid of the Commis-
sioners, the bailiffs and policemen, shall make out a list of all
persons who on the first day of the next May will be liable
to render service, and as soon after New Year as may be
reasonably convenient, this list shall be delivered to the
Town Collector, and he shall call on each person named
therein to pay the sum of one dollar.

Exemption
from service
by paying
certain sums.

Each person who pays the same shall receive a receipt
exempting him from service for the current year, beginning
on the first day of May following. Within five days before
the first day of May, the Town Collector shall deliver to
the chief bailiff a list of the persons who have not paid
the exemption fee, and from this list the chief bailiff
shall from time to time call out persons for service, and
he shall allow no persons to escape from the service. On
or about September in each year, a second list shall be made
by the Town Clerk, assisted as aforesaid, including persons
becoming liable to service between the first day of May and
the first day of November in the current year, and this
list shall be delivered to the Town Collector as soon after
the first of September as convenient, and he shall call on
every person named therein to pay him fifty cents, and
on such payment he shall give to the person a receipt
exempting him from service during the second half of the