478 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Sheriff of Cecil County shall be entitled to forty-
five cents a day for keeping in prison and boarding
each prisoner.

Approved March 30, 1868.

CHAPTER 277.

AN ACT to widen and improve the public roads
in Wicomico County.

Road super-
visors.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the Su-
pervisors of the Public Roads in Wicomico County
to examine all public roads in their respective road
districts, and if any of said roads are found to be
less than thirty feet wide, and if the said Super-
visor finds that at any point said road cannot be
improved or repaired without widening the same
he shall have full power to remove fences, fill up
and remove ditches, cut down and remove trees,
or any other obstructions so that the said road may
be rendered passable and convenient ; provided
such widening shall not exceed thirty feet.

Aggrieved.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That if any person
or persons shall feel aggrieved at the action of the
Supervisor in the performance of his duty under
this Act in removing his, her or their fence or
other obstruction, he, she or they may call in the
County Surveyor for the purpose of ascertaining
where the centre of said road is so as to know
where the fifteen feet from the said centre of the
said road will run and be located, and if the said
Surveyor shall decide in favor of the location made
by the Supervisor then the party or parties appeal-

Expense.

ing to said Surveyor shall pay the expenses of said
survey ; out if the said Surveyor shall decide that
the location made by said Supervisor is not correct
and that it is an injury to said party or parties so
appealing, then the County Commissioners shall