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SAINT MARY'S COUNTY.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act relating to
Public Roads in this State, and to repeal the Acts of Assembly therein
mentioned.— 1820, ch. 110.
Abrogated by 1821, ch. 2.

AN ACT, entitled, a further Supplement to the Act, entitled, an Act relat-
ing to the Public Roads in the several Counties therein mentioned.
1821, ch. 2.

Roads in
Saint
Mary's

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this law, the public roads in
Saint Mary's county, shall be kept in repair in pursuance of
the provisions of the act, entitled, an act relating to the public
roads in the several counties therein mentioned, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and one ; and the said
law is hereby declared to be in full force and operation as to
the said county. And the levy court of the said county are
hereby directed to meet as soon after the passage of this law as
practicable, to carry its provisions into operation.

Levy court
may levy if
necessary.

. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That whenever the levy court
shall be of opinion, that any part of the public roads in the said
county, cannot be sufficiently repaired in the manner pre-
scribed by the said act, without great oppression to the inha-
bitants residing within the limits attached to the said road, that
then and in such case it shall be lawful for the said levy court,
to levy on the assessable property of the said county, such sum,
not exceeding one hundred dollars, as they shall deem it expe-
dient to contribute toward the repairing such road.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act relative to the
Public Roads in Saint Mary's County, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and twenty-one, chapter fifty-four. — 1834, ch. 298.
Abrogated by 1838, ch. 308.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT passed December session, eighteen hundred
and thirty-four, chapter two hundred and ninety-eight, relating to the
Public Roads ia Saint Mary's County .—1838, ch. 308.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it has been shown by experience that the levy
court of Saint Mary's county, have not been able to let out by
contract, the roads of said county, in the manner provided for
in the first section of the act to which this is a supplement ;
therefore,

Authority
to appoint
supervisors.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the commissioners of St. Mary's county are hereby authorized
and empowered, in their discretion, to appoint fit and proper
persons to be supervisors of the public road in said county,
within such divisions and districts as shall be specified and

Their
powers.

assigned by the said commissioners, and the said supervisors
are hereby authorized to employ handa on such terms, regida-