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TALBOT COUNTY.

	ROADS. All the prior acts affecting Talbot are merged in 1834, ch. 304. AN ACT relating to the Public Roads in Talbot County.— 1834, ch. 304.
Preamble.	WHEREAS, the present mode of keeping in order the public roads in Talbot county, is found by experience to be imper- fect ; therefore,
Meeting directed.	SEC. 1. Be. it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the commissioners for Talbot county, or a majority of them, be, and they are hereby authorized and required to meet together on the first Monday of April, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty- five, and on the same day in every year thereafter, at the court-house in said county, and when so met together, the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall be and they are hereby authorized (if not already done to their satisfaction) to describe, ascertain and distinctly record, in a
Record book.	well bound book, to be provided, if necessary, for that pur- pose, the several respective roads and public highways in said
Appoint supervisors.	county, and to nominate and appoint capable and judicious persons as supervisors of the several and respective roads aforesaid, according to the number and division of the said roads into districts, as to the said commissioners may appear
Limitation.	meet and proper, not assigning to any one supervisor, more than eight miles of road.
Warrant to be served.	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That upon any such appoint- ment of supervisors as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the commissioners for said county, within ten days after such appointment, to issue a warrant to the person so ap- pointed, and deliver the same to the sheriff of the county afore- said, to he by him delivered, within twenty clays, to the person so appointed, or left at his place of residence, under the pe-
Penalty.	nalty of ten dollars, current money, for every neglect by the sheriff or clerk aforesaid, respectively.
Penalty for refusing to serve.	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any person appointed super- visor of the roads in virtue of this act, and refusing to serve as such, or to comply with the requisites thereof, except for a reasonable excuse, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars current money, to be recovered in the name of the state, before any justice of the peace of said county, such suit to he ordered
Proceeds applied. Proviso.	by the commissioners, or a majority of them, at their first meet- ing after such refusal, and when recovered, to be by them ap- plied towards defraying the county charges ; Provided, that no one person shall be compelled to act as supervisor more than one year in every three years, without his consent.
Vacancies supplied, &c.	SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if any person appointed supervisor, in pursuance of this act, shall refuse to act as such, remove out of the county, become disqualified, or die, it shall