SCHOOLS.

laws regulating the appointment of overseers of the roads for
the said county ; and that the law authorizing the justices of
the peace to appoint overseers, be, and the same is hereby
repealed.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of the
tax of Somerset county shall, from and after the passage of this
act, meet on the first Monday of April in each year, for the
purpose of noting transfers, and hearing appeals, and shall sit
so long as shall be necessary, not exceeding twenty days in
any year, and they shall give public notice of the times of
such meetings.

AN ACT relating to the Public Roads in Somerset and Dorchester Coun-
ties.— 1823, ch. 73.
See 'Dorchester County,' title 'Roads,' ante page 1909.

AN ACT to repeal the Act of Assembly, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and eighteen, chapter eighty-nine, so far as relates
to Somerset and Dorchester Counties. — 1823, ch. 123.
See 'Dorchester County/ title 'Roads,' ante page 1913.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act relating to the
Public Roads in Somerset County.— 1834, ch. 155.

Commis-
sioners of
tax to meet
for making
transfers.

WHEREAS, great inconvenience and public injury have
arisen from the mode at present provided by law for the col-
lection of fines for neglect to work on the public roads ; there-
fore,

Preamble.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, all overseeers of roads
shall, as soon as fines are incurred for neglect to work on the
public roads, call upon each and every person liable to a fine
or fines, and demand the payment of the sum forfeited, and on
refusal or neglect to pay the same, the overseer shall proceed
to recover the same before a single justice of the peace, by
due course of law, as is now provided in the act to which this
is a supplement.

SCHOOLS.
1816, ch. 256, ante page 654, distributes the fund.

AN ACT to provide for the Public Instruction of Youth in Primary Schools
throughout this State.— 1825. ch. 162.
See ante page 838.

AN ACT to provide for the admission of Somerset County to the benefits of
an Act, entitled, an Act to provide for the Public Instruction of Youth
in Primary Schools throughout this Slate. — 1830, ch. 14.

Recovery
of fines.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the provisions of an act, entitled, an act to provide for the pub-

Provisions
of act ex-
tended.