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MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

Assignment of roads.	SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That wherever a public road in said county may cross the line of an election district in such manner as to be inconvenient for the supervisor of such district to attend to the same, it shall be lawful for the levy court to assign any road, or part of- a road, so situated, to the supervisor most convenient in an adjoining district. An additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to provide for the repairs of Public Roads in Montgomery County, passed December ses- sion, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, chapter two hundred and twenty- seven.— 1831, ch. 108.
Period of repairing prescribed.	SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the supervisors of public roads for Montgomery county, be, and they are hereby authorized and required to commence annually, in the month of May, as provided for in the third section of the act to which this is an additional supplement, to repair the several roads allotted to said supervisors, by the levy court of said county, in the manner therein prescribed, and that the said supervisors shall continue to work thereon every day, successively, (Sundays excepted,) without inter- ruption, until the repair of said road be completed.
Case of neglect to repair.	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if the said supervisors, or any one of them, shall fail to execute and complete the repairs of said road as directed, unless prevented by just and sufficient cause, to be determined by the said levy court, then and in that case, it shall be the duty of the levy court, to present the fact to the grand jury of said county, whose duty it shall be, to proceed as directed in the seventh section of the original act, to which this is an additional supplement.
Former sell confirmed.	SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That all and every part or parts of the original act and the supplements thereto, not inconsis- tent with the provisions of this act, be, and remain in full force and virtue in law. AN ACT relating to the duties of the Levy Court of Montgomery County. 1831, ch. 153.
Levy au- thorised.	Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be law- ful for the levy court of Montgomery county, to levy on the assessable property of said county, such additional sum of mo- ney, for the repairs of the public roads in said county, as in the discretion of said court, shall be deemed necessary and
Proviso.	proper ; Provided, the whole sum levied for that object, in any one year, shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five cents on every hundred dollars worth of assessable property in said county.