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ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.

Persons to

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That in all cases where any of

be appoint-
ed, &c.

the said roads shall be let out to be completed or repaired on

contract, it shall and is hereby declared to be the duty of the

levy court of the county within which such road shall lie, to

appoint some person or persons to view such road, and report to

them whether the same shall have been completed according

to the terms of such contract, before the said court shall be

authorized in virtue thereof to pay for the same ; Provided,

that nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to

prevent the said levy courts respectively, from making such

advances of money to such contractor or contractors, for com-

pleting or repairing the said roads, as they in their discretion

shall think necessary.

SEC. 7. Merged in 1818, ch. 89, ante page 687.

Supervisors

SEC. 8. And be it enacted. That no supervisor of any public

not to work
with less

road shall at any time proceed to work and labour on such

than six

public road with a less number of able bodied labourers than

labourers,
&c.

six, unless it be for the purpose of removing some fallen trees

or other obstruction, under the penalty of forfeiting his own

wages for the time that a less number of hands shall be em-

ployed, and to be deducted out of his allowance by the levy

court.

Part of an

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That so much of the original act

act repealed
&c.

to which this is a supplement, as requires one-third of the

money levied on the inhabitants on the east and south side of

Elk river, to be expended on the roads on the east and south

sides of said river, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and the

whole of the money collected in said county to be laid out on

any roads in said county in the discretion and judgment of the

levy court.

Part of

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That all that part of an act of

another act

assembly, passed at November session, seventeen hundred and

repealed,
&c.

ninety,* entitled, an act to straighten and amend the several

* Ch. 32.

public roads in several counties, and for other purposes therein

mentioned, which authorizes and empowers the justices of

Montgomery county court to levy a sum, riot exceeding two

shillings in the hundred pound of assessable property, for the

clearing and amending the several public roads in said county,

be, and the same is hereby repealed, and the power and autho-

rity by said act vested in the justices of said county court, is

hereby transferred to and vested in the justices of the levy court

for said county.

SEC. 11. Repealed by 1799, ch. 70.

Penalty for

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That for every slave so required

not furnish-

by the supervisor and not furnished, the owner thereof shall

ing, &c.

forfeit and pay the sum of five shillings, to be recovered by the

supervisors in the said counties respectively, as in case of small