PUBLIC ROADS.

1343

pervisors by them appointed shall be authorized to summon o*

warn all the able bodied male persons in said county, above the

age of sixteen, to assist in repairing the public roads therein ;

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and that it shall and may be lawful for every person who shall

be summoned or warned to work as aforesaid, and for every

master or mistress of servants, in lieu of working on the public

roads as aforesaid, to pay to the supervisor of their district the

sums rated or fixed by the levy court to be allowed to labourers

or hands hired to work on the road, for each and every day any

person shall be warned or summoned to work as aforesaid.

By 1808, ch. 6, the number of days not to exceed four in any one yea?,

and male persons under eighteen and above sixty years of age, are not

obliged to assist in repairing the public roads — but see 1816, ch. 85, sec. 4.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That when any person warned or

Penalty on

summoned to attend and work on the roads as aforesaid, shall

person*
warned

neglect so to attend by eight o'clock in the morning, or refuse

neglecting

to pay as before directed, shall forfeit and be fined seventy-five

to attend.

cents, to be laid out on the roads, and may be recovered before

a justice of the peace, unless by him excused on account of

sickness or some such sufficient excuse.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any person appointed by the

And on su-

levy court as supervisor, shall be bound to serve as such for

pervisors
refusing to

one year, under the penalty of twenty dollars in case of refusal,

serve.

to be recovered before a justice of the peace and expended on

the roads.

See 1816, ch. 85, post page 1344.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to extend further the powers

*1807,ch.

of the Levy Court of Allegany County, relative to Roads in said County,

58.

and for other purposes.— 1808, ch. 6.

No person

SEC, 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

under 18 or

That from and after the fifteenth day of August next, no male

over 60
years to be

person under the age of eighteen or over the age of sixty years,

obliged to
assist in

shall be obliged to assist in repairing the public roads in Alle-

repairing

gany county.

roads.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the levy court of Allegany

Supervisors

county shall not direct the supervisors of the several districts in

not to warn
such per-

said county to warn the able bodied male persons, or their mas-

sons.

ters or mistresses, as the case may be, over the age of eighteen

and under the age of sixty years, to work in repairing the roads

in said county, more than four days in any one year.

See 1816, ch. 85, post page 1344.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all such part of the act or

Part of act*

acts of assembly heretofore passed, as are contrary to the provi-

repealed.

sions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.