ROADS.

2015

SEC. 27. And be it enacted, That this act shall continue and
be in force for two years, and to the end of the next session of
assembly which shall happen thereafter.

Continued by the annual continuing laws.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the improvement of the
Public Roads in Kent County.— 1821, ch. 93.

Duration.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the first Monday in April next, it shall not be
lawful for the levy court of Kent county to allow to any super-
visor of the public roads in said county, more than two dollars
per clay for his service, nor more than fifty cents per day for a
good laboring hand above the age of eighteen years ; nor
more than one dollar and fifty cents per day for a cart and
team ; nor more than one dollar and fifty cents per day for a
plough and team, any thing in any former act of assembly to
the contrary notwithstanding.

AN ACT relating to the Public Roads in Queen Anne's and Kent Counties.
1829, ch. 152.

Compensa-
tion of
supervisors
of roads,
be.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the supervisors of the public highways in Queen Anne's and
Kent counties be, and they are hereby authorized and required
to cut an opening in any bank, erected, or to be erected, along-
side of the public road in any place where the water may be
likely to lie, so that said water may be allowed to pass off;
and if any highway should become impassable by reason of the
water lying in the same, for want of an opening being made in
the bank, the supervisor of the same may be presented and in-
dicted in Queen Anne's or Kent county court, as the case may
be, and in all respects dealt by, as in other cases, where said
supervisor may suffer his road to be out of repair.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall not be in force
until after the first day of July next.

AN ACT to regulate Gates in Kent County.— 1835, ch. 357.

Overseers
directed.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly, by the
petition of sundry citizens of Kent county, that many of the
citizens of Kent county are compelled from the want of
timber, and means of enclosing their fields, to keep gates on
the public roads passing through their farms; And whereas,
the county court for Kent county, at their last March term
decided that gates on the public roads are public nuisances,
thereby subjecting the owners or keepers of them to all the
penalties imposed by law on such as shall obstruct the public
highways, whereby the real estates of many would be ren-
dered almost valueless, and many of the citizens ruined
without some legislative aid ; therefore,

Preamble.