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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

be too high, they shall have the power of rejecting
said bids ; and are authorized and empowered to
appoint a Supervisor, with such compensation as
the County Commissioners shall deem just and pro-
per, and shall be held to perform the duties and
give the bond required under the contracts herein-
before provided for.

Shall specify.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the contracts or
specifications for the repair of said road sections
shall specify the manner in which the roads shall
be made and kept, wherever necessary and practi-
cable, in the judgment of the Commissioners,
highest in the middle, with convex, surface, and
good side drains to carry off the surface water
and the water that filters through the adjacent
lands, with good breaks on hills at proper dis-
tances from each other, and that the principal re-
pairs on said roads shall be made between the first
of May and the first of September in each year,
and the lessee or contractor shall be required under
proper bond to keep such section or sections in
such order as specified for one year, and he shall
erect guide posts on the public roads at such places
as directed by the said Commissioners, for the
convenience of travelers, pointing and directing
the way and expressing the distances to other
prominent places.

Compelled to
labor.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That all male resi-
dents of the county above the age of twenty-one
years, except those residing within the limits of
incorporated towns, provided such excepted persons
pay a corporation tax or work one day on the
streets or roads within the corporate limits of said
town, shall be compelled to labor one day in each
year on the public roads in the road district in
which they may reside ; and the contrator or super-
visor for any section or sections shall summon all
such persons in his road district as shall be desig-
nated or allotted by said Road Commissioners, or
such number as may be necessary for the repairs
of such section, giving at least two days' notice of
the time and place of meeting ; and the contractor
or supervisor shall furnish such tools as may be
necessary to work said labor ; provided that, how-
ever, no person shall be compelled to labor more
than four miles from his place of residence.