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forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars for each neglect
or offence, to be recovered and applied as aforesaid.

SEC. 23. And be it enacted. That where any damages shall
be allowed to any person or persons for opening any public
road through his, her or their land, the payment shall not be
made until the road be actually laid out and opened.

Damages,
&c. when
to be paid,
&c.

SEC. 24. And be it enacted, That no supervisor shall pro-
ceed to work on any public road with a less number of able-
bodied labourers than six, unless it be for removing some fallen
trees, or other obstruction, on forfeiture of his wages for the
time that a less number shall be employed, to be deducted out
of his allowance by the levy court.

Not to
work With
less than
six labour-
ers, &c.

SEC. 25. And be it enacted. That from and after the first
Monday in April next, all acts of assembly heretofore made,
and relating to public roads in Queen Anne's county, be and
they are hereby repealed, so far as they relate to the said
county.

A SUPPLEMENT to an Act., entitled, an Act relating to the Public Roads in
Queen Anne's County.— 1803, ch. 52.

Acts re-
pealed.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the justices of the levy court for Queen Anne's county
shall have full power to contract with any person or persons
lor the opening or clearing any road heretofore laid out, or to
be laid out, in said county, and for the improving and keeping
in repair any road, or such part thereof, and for such length of
time, as, in their judgment, shall seem most advisable, and for
the interest of the county ; and where any person or persons
shall contract for the keeping in repair of any public road in
virtue of this act, and shall neglect to keep the same in such
repair as it is the duty of the supervisors by law to do, then
such person or persons, so contracting, shall be subject to
the same penalties as supervisors of public roads in the said
county in like cases now are, to be recovered and applied in
the same manner ; and every person or persons, so contracting
with the justices of the levy court, shall give bond to the state
of Maryland, with such security as the justices of the levy
court shall approve of, and in such sum or penalty as they
shall require, for the performance of such contract, and such
contractors shall have and exercise all the powers which
supervisors of public roads in said county now have, or may
or can exercise in virtue of the act to which this is a sup-
plement, except the powers given by the eighteenth section
thereof.

Levy court
to contract
for opening
and keeping
roads in
repair.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That in all cases where any road shall
be let out to be completed or repaired on contract, it shall and
is hereby declared to be the duty of the levy court to ap-
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Persons to
be appoint-
ed to view
road let out