ROADS.

bid off by such person or persons, to any person or persons,
according to the provisions aforesaid.

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SEC. 28. And be it enacted, That if the levy court of the
said county shall decide to keep the roads in repair by the
labour of the persons residing upon the different road districts,
and required to work upon the roads under the provisions of
this act, instead of selling said roads to the lowest bidder, it
shall be, and is hereby made the duty of said court, to levy
and allow for each district having upon it a number of labour-
ing hands less than seven, the sum of twenty dollars, to be
allowed on the levy list in the same manner that other allow-
ances are directed under this act, and apportioned among the
hands according to the portion of work done by each ; and it
is hereby made the duty of the supervisors of the districts
aforesaid, to return to the levy court, under oath, a list of the
persons upon his district subject to labour upon the public
roads, and of the number of days which each hand has worked.

Persons
labouring;
compensa-
tion.

SEC. 29. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act con-
tained shall prevent the levy Court of said county from making
a special contract for making a new bridge in said county, or
repairing any bridge, nor shall the provisions of this act be
construed to interfere with the duties imposed by law upon
the owner of a water-mill.

Special
contracts
for bridges,
&c.

SEC. 30. And be it enacted, That these levies so ordered and
directed, shall be made at the termination of the year during
which the several expenses are incurred.

Levies;
when to be
made.

SEC. 31. And be it enacted, That all acts of assembly, or any
part or parts thereof, inconsistent with the provisions of this
act, be, and the same are hereby repealed ; Provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect or inva-
lidate any contracts made before the passage of this act, or any
proceedings had or commenced in pursuance of the powers
granted by any of the sections hereby repealed.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to amend and reduce into one
the several Acts of Assembly relating to the Public Roads in Worcester
county, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-one.
1824, ch 11.

Repeal.

WHEREAS, doubts have been suggested, whether under the
provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, an appeal
lies to the county court in a case where a petition for a public
road has been presented to the levy court and rejected by the
levy court ; therefore,

Preamble.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in any case where the levy court of Worcester county
hath rejected or shall hereafter reject an application for a pub-
lic road under the provisions of the act to which this is a sup-

Re-hearing
of petition
for road.