1791

CAROLINE COUNTY.

directed, be or they so neglecting or refusing, shall forfeit the
sum of fifty cents, to be deducted out of his or their account or
accounts then next to be passed for his or their use by the said
court.

Levy court
prohibited
to pass
certain
accounts.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for
the levy court of Caroline county, and they are hereby en-
joined and required, not to allow or pass any account in favour,
or for the use of any supervisor, for moneys therein charged
and alleged to have been paid by such supervisor, to any per-
son or persons whom they or any of them may have called on
to work on the public roads. And if any supervisor shall
hereafter voluntarily pay or cause to be paid, in money, or
by any other ways or means whatsoever any person or per-
sons for work done on the public roads, the same shall be his
own loss without remedy, any thing in any law, custom or
usage, to the contrary notwithstanding.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Levy Courts of the several Coun-
ties therein mentioned, to alter, open, and shut up, Roads, in their
respective Counties. — 1829, ch 234.
See 'Calvert County,' title 'Roads,' ante page 1752.

SCHOOLS.
AN ACT to provide for Schools, and for the promotion of Education in
Caroline County.— 1816, ch. 250.

County to
be divided
into school
sections.

Return
thereof to
be made to
clerk.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That William Potter, Richard Hughlett and Elisha Dawson,
pf Caroline county, be and they are hereby appointed commis-
sioners, and they, or a majority of them, shall have full power
and authority to lay out and divide said county into school sec-
tions, of not greater dimensions than equal to a space of six
miles square, regulating the size and boundary lines of said
sections by natural objects, roads, and local circumstances, as
in the opinion of said commissioners, shall be most beneficial
and convenient for the inhabitants of the several sections.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said commissioners when
they shall so have divided the said county into sections, shall
cause a return to be drawn up in writing, signed by said com-
missioners, or a majority of them, describing particularly and
distinctly the limits of each of said sections, and designating
them respectively by numbers from one in progressive succes-
sion, and shall lodge said return with the clerk of the county,
whose duty it shall be forthwith to record the same among the
land records of the county, and a copy of said return, under
the hand and official seal of said clerk, shall be good and suffi-
cient evidence in the courts of justice in this state, as well as
out thereof of the location and boundaries of said respective
sections.