1970

HARFORD COUNTY.

	REGISTER. A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to compel the Registers of Wills in the several Counties therein mentioned, to keep each his Office at the Seat of Justice in the County for which he shall be Register, passed December session, eighteen hundred and four, chapter thirty- nine, so far as relates to Harford County. — 1832, ch. 159.
Clause re- pealed.	Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That so much of the act to which this is a supplement, as requires the registers of wills of the counties therein mentioned, to at- tend two days in every week, at their offices, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as relates to Harford County. See the original law, 'Charles County,' title 'Register,' ante page 1861.
	ROADS. AN ACT to straighten and amend the Public Roads in Harford County, and for other purposes. — 1791, ch. 70.
Preamble.	WHEREAS, it appears to this general assembly, by the peti- tion of the inhabitants of Harford county, that their public roads are out of repair, and in their present situation require straightening and amending, and that several other roads are requisite and necessary, and ought to be laid out in as straight a direction as the situation of the ground will admit, and that the expense thereof be hereafter levied on the taxable property within the said county ; SEC. 2. Is confined to particular roads.
Justices to meet, &c.	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the justices of the peace in the aforesaid county, or any three or more of them, be and they are hereby authorized and required to meet on the second Monday in March next, or as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, at the court-house of said county, and at their levy court in every year thereafter, and so met, may and shall levy a sum of money not exceeding the sum of three shillings and nine-pence, or less than two shillings and six-pence, current money, on every hundred pounds worth of assessable property within the said county, to be collected in the same manner, at the same time, and by the same person, as other county taxes are collected.
And appoint overseers, &c.	SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That the said justices shall and they are hereby required, at their aforesaid meeting in March next, and at their levy court every year thereafter, to nomi- nate, and by warrant under the hand of the clerk and seal of the county, appoint fit and proper persons to be overseers of the public roads in their county, within such divisions and districts as shall be specified and assigned in the said warrants; and such overseers, so appointed, shall continue to serve as such until a new appointment as aforesaid by the said justices at their levy courts ; and in case of the death, neglect, refusal to act, or misbehaviour, of any overseer so appointed, the said