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SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That within one month after the
receipt of their respective warrants, the several overseers afore-
said, under the directions of the paid justices, shall repair to
the house of every tenant or proprietor residing within the
limits attached to their respective roads, and shall take down a
proper list of the names of all and singular the free able-bodied
male inhabitants residing therein, above the age of eighteen
and under the age of fifty years, and of all the able-bodied male
slaves above the age of eighteen years and under the age of
fifty years ; and the said overseers shall justly and impartially
call for and require the labour of all and singular the persons
aforesaid, alternately, and in such convenient numbers and
classes as to place the burthen of their services equally upon
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Take down
a list of
able-bodied
free male
inhabitants
and slaves ;
and class
them.
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all ; Provided nevertheless, that the labour of the said persons
shall not be called forth for the purpose of this act during the
season of wheat harvest, nor in such manner as to take more
than half the number of labourers belonging to one family, in
which there are more than one labourer, at the same time.
Modified as to Calvert County, by 1822, ch. 123.
SEC 10. And be it enacted, That as often as the said over-
seers shall judge it necessary to call upon the said inhabitants
for their labour in and upon the said roads, they shall summon,
or cause to be summoned, the number and class which they
shall have previously arranged, having had regard to the quan-
tity and quality of work necessary to be done upon the said
roads, giving each person, and the master, mistress or overseer
of each servant or slave, so to be summoned, two days notice
at the least of the time and place appointed for their labour,
except in such extraordinary cases which may require a
shorter notice, and every person so summoned shall be obliged
to attend in person, or to provide a sufficient substitute; and
if any person, being so summoned, shall neglect or refuse
to attend, or to provide a sufficient substitute, he shall forfeit
and pay the sum of seventy-five cents for every offence; and if
any person shall attend, and not perform the reasonable labour
required of him by the overseer of the road, according to his
ability, he shall be adjudged a defaulter, and shall incur the
same penalty as if he had neglected to attend ; and in case the
master, mistress or overseer, of any servant or slave, upon
being notified as aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect to send such
servant or slave, such master, mistress or overseer, shall forfeit
and pay the sum of seventy-five cents for every servant or slave
so refused to be sent.
See preceding note.
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Proviso.
May sum-
mon class
arranged
after two
days notice;
substitutes.
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SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
said overseers to keep a true and proper list of all and every
person or defaulter, who, being summoned as aforesaid, shall
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And keep *
list of all
defaulters.
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