ROADS.

to the purposes for which they were intended ; and as it is
necessary that the law should be rendered plain ; therefore,

2197

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the justices of the peace for the county aforesaid, or a
majority of them, be, and they are hereby authorized and re-
quired to meet together on the first Monday of April next, and
on the same day in every year thereafter, at the court-house in
the said county, and when so met together, the said justices, or
a majority of them, shall be and they are hereby authorized
and required to describe, ascertain, and distinctly record in a
well bound book to be provided by them for that purpose, the
several and respective public roads in Somerset county, and to
nominate and appoint capable and proper persons as overseers
of the several and respective public roads aforesaid, according
to the number and divisions of the said roads, as the same shall
be ascertained upon their records ; Provided nevertheless, that
the said roads shall be so apportioned, divided and described,
as not to require a greater number of overseers than eight in
any one hundred of the said county ; and that the said justices,
or a majority of them, may adjourn from day to day until the
said roads shall be duly ascertained, and overseers appointed
as aforesaid.
Power of appointment vested in the Levy Court, by 1820, ch. 49.

Justices to
meet, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the court of
said county shall attend the justices of the peace, at their said
meetings, and shall make fair entries and records of their pro-
ceedings in virtue of this act, and shall, within the space of
ten days after the appointment of overseers as aforesaid, issue
warrants to the said overseers, under his hand, and the seal of
bis office, notifying the said persons of their appointments re-
spectively, as overseers of the said roads ; and the said clerk
shall, within the time aforesaid, deliver the said warrants to
the sheriff of Somerset county aforesaid, and shall take the re-
ceipt of the sheriff for the same ; and the said sheriff shall be
and he is hereby authorized and required, within the space of
twenty days after receiving the said warrants, to deliver the
same to the respective persons appointed overseers as afore-
said, and to take their several receipts for the same ; and if any
of the said overseers shall refuse to receive their respective
warrants, the said sheriff shall leave the same at their respec-
tive places of abode, and certify the justices of the peace
thereof; and if the clerk or sheriff of the said county shall
neglect or refuse to execute and perform the respective duties
herein before required, within the respective periods limited
as aforesaid, the said clerk or sheriff, so neglecting or refusing,
shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding thirty dollars for
each offence.

Clerk to
attend the
justices, &c