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CALVERT COUNTY.

keeping the roads of the ssud counties in due repair; there-
fore.

Roads to
be describ-
ed and re-
corded.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the justices of the levy court for the counties aforesaid,
or a majority of them, be, and they are hereby authorized and
required to meet together on the first Monday of Apiii next,
and on the same day in every year thereafter, at the respective
court-houses in the said counties, and when so met together,
the said justices, or a majority of them, shall be, and they are
hereby authorized and required to describe, ascertain, and dis-
tinctly record in a well bound book, to be provided by them
for that purpose, the several and respective roads and public
highways in the counties aforesaid, and to nominate and ap-
point capable and judicious persons as overseers of the several
and respective roads aforesaid, according to the number and
divisions of the said roads, as the same shall be ascertained

Proviso.

upon their records ; Provided nevertheless, that the said roads
shall be so apportioned, divided and described, as not to re-
quire a greater number of overseers than five in any one hun-
dred of the said counties, and that the said justices, or any one
or more of them, may adjourn from day to day until the said
roads shall be duly ascertained, and overseers appointed as
aforesaid ; and in case neither of the said justices should
attend as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the
county court to make said adjournments.

Clerk to
issue war-
rants to
overseers.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the said county
shall attend the justices of the levy court at their said meet-
ings, and shall make fair entries and records of their proceed-
ings in virtue of this act, and shall, within the space of ten
days after the appointment of overseers as aforesaid, issue war-
rants to the said overseers, under his hand and the seal of his
office, notifying the said persons of their appointments respec-
tively as overseers of the said roads, according to the usual
forms, having respect to the alterations required by this act,
and the said clerk shall, within the time aforesaid, deliver the
said warrants to the sheriff of the several counties aforesaid,
and shall take the receipt of the sheriff for the same ; and the
said sheriff shall be and he is hereby authorized and required,
within the space of 'fifteen days after receiving the said war-
rants, to deliver the same to the respective persons appointed
overseers as aforesaid, and to take their several receipts for the
same ; and if any of the said overseers shall refuse to receive
their respective warrants, the said sheriff shall leave the same
at their place of abode, and certify the justices of the levy
court thereof; and if the clerk or sheriff of any of the said
counties shall neglect or refuse to execute and perform the
respective duties herein before required, within the respective