ROADS.

and may be lawful for the said commissioners, or a majority of
them, to supply at any time any such vacancy so happening, by
the appointment of another suitable person to act as supervisor
under the same penalties and regulations as if he had been
appointed at the regular meeting of the said commissioners on
the first Monday of April, in each and every year; and it shall
be the duty of the clerk of the commissioners, to issue a war-
rant to such person so appointed, and of the sheriff of said
county to deliver the same, under the same penalties pre-
scribed in the second section of this act.

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SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
commissioners for said county, on the first Monday of April,
in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and in each and
every year thereafter, at such time as they shall meet for the
purpose of making the annual levy for Talbot county, to levy
and assess upon the assessable property of said county, such
sum of money as in their judgment and discretion they may
deem sufficient under the provisions of this act, to defray the
expenses for the repair of the public roads in said county, to
be collected as other county charges are, and to be paid under
the orders of said commissioners, to such persons as may have
their respective claims allowed by said commissioners.

Levy

directed.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of each
supervisor to call upon all the taxable persons of his section of
the road, and none other, except as herein after provided, at
least two days before he intends working said roads, exclusive
of the day of notice, and the day of meeting, and notify them
of his intention and the time and place of meeting, to work
said roads, what utensils and implements they must bring,
with carts and teams, if necessary; and when so notified, it

Supervisors
shall notify
taxables.

shall be the duty of said taxable inhabitants to furnish one-half
of their able-bodied hands of colour, if required, except in
time of wheat harvest, not under eighteen nor over forty-five
years of age ; and also such utensils and implements, carts
and teams as may be required by said supervisor, if the party

Whose duty
to furnish
hands, &c.

called on have or possess them ; and in case of default on the
part of said taxable inhabitants to furnish their respective pro-
portion of hands, carts and teams, with the necessary utensils
and implements, when called upon agreeably to the requisi-

Case of
neglect.

tions of this act, the said supervisor shall be and he is hereby
authorized and required to employ such persons not charge-
able with taxes, as he may deem requisite for the repair of the

Supervisor
authorized
to employ.

public roads within his section, and the allowance to each and
every able-bodied person so employed, not under eighteen nor
over forty-five years of age, shall be the same as hereafter spe-

Compensa-
tion.

cified in the seventh section of this act ; Provided always, that
it shall not be lawful for any supervisor appointed under this

Proviso.