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ALLEGANY COUNTY.

1794,ch.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act relating

52.

to the Public Roads in this State, and to repeal the Act of Assembly

therein mentioned. — 1816, ch. 85.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly, that in

Allegany county the present laws relating to the public roads

have been found inconvenient and inadequate to the purposes

for which they were intended; therefore,

Levy au-

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

thorized for
keeping

That the justices of the levy court of Allegany county, at their

roads in

annual meeting for the purpose of levying the public assess-

repair.

ment, shall levy, by equal assessment on the assessable pro-

perty within said county, a sum of money not exceeding fifty

cents on every hundred dollars of assessable property, to be col-

lected as other county charges are, and paid to the justices of

the levy court, or their order, and shall be applied towards

straightening, amending, and keeping in repair, the public

roads, as directed by the act to which this is an additional

supplement.

Duty of

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the

supervisors.

supervisors, and they are hereby required, before they begin to

straighten, amend or repair, any public road within their respec-

tive districts, to give public notice, by advertisement to be set

up at the most public places in their district, in order that the

inhabitants may have an opportunity of labouring upon the said

public roads ; and it shall be the duty of the several supervi-

sors, in hiring labourers to keep in repair the public roads, to

give a preference to taxables, until they shall have laboured to

the probable amount of their road tax.

Vacancies,

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any supervisor who shall be

how to be

appointed by virtue of the act to which this is an additional

supplied.

supplement, shall refuse to act, or be disqualified, or die, it shall

and may be lawful for any two justices of the peace of said

county, to supply such vacancy so happening, by appointing

another suitable person, who shall give bond to the said jus-

tices, in the same manner, and under the same penalty, as if

such supervisor had been appointed by the levy court of said

county ; and the said justices shall return the bond so taken to

the clerk of the county, to be recorded, and shall certify every

such appointment, under their hands, to the clerk of the county

court, who shall receive the same, and shall forthwith issue a

warrant to the person so appointed, and deliver the same to the

sheriff, to be delivered to the party, in the same manner, and

under the same penalties, as if such appointment had been

made by the levy court.

Part of an

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That from and after the last Mon-

act repealed

day in August next, so much of the act of assembly to which